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Physical Review A

Quantum image encodings for noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices: A comprehensive performance and noise-resilience analysis

Emmanuel Martínez Guerrero, Guo-Hua Sun, Shi‐Hai Dong

Published Jun 8, 2026• 0 citations
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10.1103/z33f-l4jg

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