Publications

1. 2026

   Quantum spectral clustering: comparing parameterized and neuromorphic quantum kernels

   Donovan Slabbert, Dean Brand, Francesco Petruccione

   APL Quantum, 3(2), 026106

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   @article{slabbert2026quantum,
     title={{Quantum spectral clustering: Comparing parameterized and neuromorphic quantum kernels}},
     volume={3},
     ISSN={2835-0103},
     url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0291037},
     doi={10.1063/5.0291037},
     number={2},
     journal={APL Quantum},
     publisher={AIP Publishing},
     author={Slabbert, Donovan and Brand, Dean and Petruccione, Francesco},
     year={2026},
     month=Apr,
     pages={026106}
   }

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2. 2026

   Canonical quantization of a memristive leaky integrate-and-fire neuron circuit

   Dean Brand, Domenica Dibenedetto, Francesco Petruccione

   Physical Review Research, 8(1), 013131

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   @article{brand2026canonical,
     title={{Canonical quantization of a memristive leaky integrate-and-fire neuron circuit}},
     volume={8},
     ISSN={2643-1564},
     url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/y61v-2bxf},
     doi={10.1103/y61v-2bxf},
     number={1},
     journal={Physical Review Research},
     publisher={American Physical Society (APS)},
     author={Brand, Dean and Dibenedetto, Domenica and Petruccione, Francesco},
     year={2026},
     month=Feb,
     pages={013131}
   }

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3. 2025

   Quantum neuromorphic classification of EEG brain signals

   Dean Brand, Ravi Kumar Jha

   2025 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Artificial Intelligence, 92–97

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   @inproceedings{brand2025quantum,
     title={{Quantum Neuromorphic Classification of EEG Brain Signals}},
     url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/qai63978.2025.00022},
     doi={10.1109/qai63978.2025.00022},
     booktitle={2025 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Artificial Intelligence (QAI)},
     publisher={IEEE},
     author={Brand, Dean and Jha, Ravi Kumar},
     year={2025},
     month=Nov,
     pages={92--97}
   }

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4. 2024

   A quantum leaky integrate-and-fire spiking neuron and network

   Dean Brand, Francesco Petruccione

   npj Quantum Information, 10(1), 125

   Open access16 citations

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   @article{brand2024quantum,
     title={{A quantum leaky integrate-and-fire spiking neuron and network}},
     volume={10},
     ISSN={2056-6387},
     url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41534-024-00921-x},
     doi={10.1038/s41534-024-00921-x},
     number={1},
     journal={npj Quantum Information},
     publisher={Springer Science and Business Media LLC},
     author={Brand, Dean and Petruccione, Francesco},
     year={2024},
     month=Dec,
     pages={125}
   }

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5. 2024

   Markovian noise modelling and parameter extraction framework for quantum devices

   Dean Brand, Ilya Sinayskiy, Francesco Petruccione

   Scientific Reports, 14(1), 4769

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   @article{brand2024markovian,
     title={{Markovian noise modelling and parameter extraction framework for quantum devices}},
     volume={14},
     ISSN={2045-2322},
     url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-54598-5},
     doi={10.1038/s41598-024-54598-5},
     number={1},
     journal={Scientific Reports},
     publisher={Springer Science and Business Media LLC},
     author={Brand, Dean and Sinayskiy, Ilya and Petruccione, Francesco},
     year={2024},
     month=Feb,
     pages={4769}
   }

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6. 2024

   A review on Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm and its variants

   Kostas Blekos, Dean Brand, Andrea Ceschini, Chiao-Hui Chou, Rui-Hao Li, Komal Pandya, Alessandro Summer

   Physics Reports, 1068, 1–66

   Review421 citations

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   @article{blekos2024review,
     title={{A review on Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm and its variants}},
     volume={1068},
     ISSN={0370-1573},
     url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physrep.2024.03.002},
     doi={10.1016/j.physrep.2024.03.002},
     journal={Physics Reports},
     publisher={Elsevier BV},
     author={Blekos, Kostas and Brand, Dean and Ceschini, Andrea and Chou, Chiao-Hui and Li, Rui-Hao and Pandya, Komal and Summer, Alessandro},
     year={2024},
     month=June,
     pages={1--66}
   }

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