TY - RPRT TI - Classical optimization with imaginary-time block encoding on quantum computers: The MaxCut problem AU - Zhong, Dawei [University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)] (ORCID:0000000176708986) AU - Francis, Akhil [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)] (ORCID:0000000297485790) AU - Rrapaj, Ermal [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); University of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences, Wako (Japan)] (ORCID:0000000232227010) PY - 2025 DO - 10.1103/gtq3-j37b UR - https://www.osti.gov/biblio/3014514 ID - 3014514 ER -