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QOuLiPo: What a quantum computer sees when it reads a book

Christophe Jurczak

Texts map to neutral-atom processors as graphs of atoms under blockade constraints, recovering their structural backbone with high fidelity for engineered cases.

arxiv:2605.14188 v1 · 2026-05-13 · quant-ph · cs.CL · cs.DL · physics.atom-ph

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Engineered texts reach high approximation ratios on Pasqal's FRESNEL processor up to one hundred atoms, with the cleanest instances returning the exact backbone.

C2weakest assumption

That mapping textual units to atoms with blockade constraints or 2D semantic approximations preserves the meaningful structural backbone of the original prose.

C3one line summary

Literary texts are turned into graphs for neutral-atom quantum processors, with a new rigidity metric distinguishing structural uniqueness and a QOuLiPo corpus of engineered texts created to match hardware-native graphs.

References

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[1] Quantum computing with neutral atoms, 2020

[2] Many-body physics with individually controlled Rydberg atoms, 2020

[3] Quantum Optimization for Maximum Independent Set Using Rydberg Atom Arrays 2018 · arXiv:1808.10816

[4] Quantum optimization of maximum independent set using Rydberg atom arrays, 2022

[5] Identifying hard native instances for the maximum-independent-set problem on neutral-atom quantum processors, 2026

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:39:11.167512Z
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arxiv: 2605.14188 · arxiv_version: 2605.14188v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.14188 · pith_short_12: U2WXWLVAZYEW · pith_short_16: U2WXWLVAZYEWFMV7 · pith_short_8: U2WXWLVA

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