How Hard Is Quantum Advantage? A Cloud Microphysics Stress Test for Variational Quantum Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.04915v1
• Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:43:27 GMT
• Title: How Hard Is Quantum Advantage? A Cloud Microphysics Stress Test for Variational Quantum Models
• Abstract summary: We employ a hybrid quantum neural network (QNN) on a dataset on cloud microphysics.<n>We find that our QNNs strongly benefit from extensive hyper parameter optimization.<n>At the same time, the QNNs are outperformed by classical baselines in the form of simple fully-connected neural networks.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Quantum machine learning (QML) could have the potential to leverage advantages of quantum over classical computing but still lacks strong evidence of actual improvements and scalability, partly due to phenomena such as barren plateaus. In this paper, we employ a hybrid quantum neural network (QNN) on a dataset on cloud microphysics, containing processes for phase transitions of water in the atmosphere and its related temperature changes, which are highly relevant for accurate climate predictions and projections. To reach optimal performance of our QNNs, we employ a rich and trainable frequency spectrum together with expressivity enhancing classical postprocessing. We find that our QNNs strongly benefit from extensive hyperparameter optimization and thereby demonstrate the feasibility of applying QNNs to complex physical systems. At the same time, the QNNs are outperformed by classical baselines in the form of simple fully-connected neural networks. We discuss identified bottlenecks of this class of quantum models to learn the full complexity of the cloud microphysics dataset to show that there is a need to further understand and improve variational quantum models for machine learning such that they might fill the gap where classical models fail or are inefficient.

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