Call for Papers

QuBench 2026 invites submissions from academia, industry, national laboratories, and the broader quantum technology community. We welcome original research papers, benchmark studies, methodological contributions, reproducibility studies, resource-estimation analyses, datasets, software tools, and forward-looking position papers related to rigorous quantum benchmarking, validation, and performance evaluation. Accepted papers will be peer-reviewed by the workshop Technical Program Committee and included in the QCE26 workshop proceedings.

Paper Submission

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Quantum benchmark design — Benchmark suites, representative workloads, instance-generation methods, and evaluation protocols for quantum computing systems.

• Application-oriented benchmarking — Benchmarks for optimization, quantum simulation, quantum machine learning, scientific computing, chemistry, finance, energy, and other domain-specific applications.

• Simulator and emulator benchmarking — Performance, correctness, scalability, and memory-efficiency evaluation of statevector, tensor-network, stabilizer, MPS, trajectory-based, and hybrid simulators.

• Simulator validation and hardware comparison — Methods for validating simulators against hardware execution, calibrated noise models, trace-driven evaluation, and fidelity–speed–memory trade-offs.

• Quantum-HPC and GPU-accelerated evaluation — Multi-GPU and multi-node scaling, communication overhead, performance portability, workload distribution, and roofline-style performance analysis.

• Compiler, runtime, and systems metrics — Transpilation-aware benchmarking, routing overhead, scheduling, dynamic circuits, orchestration latency, and control-stack performance.

• Error mitigation and correction overheads — Transparent accounting of mitigation costs, robustness across problem families, error-correction resource overheads, and benchmarking failure modes.

• Resource estimation — Logical and physical qubit counts, T-count and T-depth, runtime estimation, magic-state factory overheads, architecture-dependent assumptions, and validation of resource-estimation tools.

• End-to-end performance metrics — Time-to-solution, success probability, throughput, queueing effects, energy or monetary cost, and full-stack execution overhead.

• Reproducibility and reporting practices — Metadata schemas, reporting checklists, benchmark artifacts, open-source tooling, and reproducible experimental workflows.

• Benchmark repositories and platforms — Benchmark zoos, shared datasets, standardized APIs, interoperable evaluation platforms, and community-maintained benchmark infrastructure.

• Distributed and modular quantum benchmarking — Benchmarking methodologies for distributed quantum computing, modular architectures, entanglement-assisted workflows, and quantum networked systems.

Submission Guidelines 

Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE QCE 2026 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore®. Submitted papers must be written in English, with a maximum length limit of 6 printed pages. The main text (including figures, tables, appendices, and any material other than references) must be no more than 6 pages. Papers that do not comply with the length limit will not be reviewed. Use the standard IEEE Transactions templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats found at: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html

If the paper is typeset in LaTeX, please use an unmodified version of the LaTeX template IEEEtran.cls version 1.8, and use the preamble: \documentclass[10pt, conference, letterpaper]{ IEEEtran }

Do not use additional LaTeX commands or packages to override and change the default typesetting choices in the template, including line spacing, font sizes, margins, space between the columns, and font types. This implies that the manuscript must use 10-point Times font, two-column formatting, as well as all default margins and line spacing requirements as dictated by the original version of IEEEtran.cls version 1.8. If you are using Microsoft Word to format your paper, you should use an unmodified version of the Microsoft Word IEEE Transactions template (US letter size). Regardless of the source of your paper formatting, you must submit your paper in Adobe PDF format.

The paper must print clearly and legibly, including all the figures, on standard black-and-white printers. Reviewers are not required to read your paper in color. The submitted manuscript should be self-contained. Inclusion of additional material (e.g., a technical report containing the detailed math proof through an anonymous Dropbox or OneDrive link) is not allowed.