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  "abstract": "Electric-dipole (E1) transition rates underlie applications across many areas of physics and demand more accurate wavefunctions than ground-state energies do. We report the first calculation of E1 transition rates on a D-Wave quantum annealer, for neutral Li, Li-like Be, neutral Na, and Na-like Mg. We use a zooming-and-sigma-annealing scheme with floating-point encoding within the Quantum Annealer Eigensolver (QAE) algorithm, which yields ground-state eigenvectors accurate to the chosen three decimal places. Treating the lowest even-parity ($^2S_{1/2}$) and odd-parity ($^2P_{1/2}$, $^2P_{3/2}$) states as separate angular-symmetry sectors gives QAE access to excited atomic configurations for transition-rate calculations. Our results reproduce relativistic configuration-interaction values obtained classically to within numerical precision, demonstrating that the QAE framework extends to a broader class of atomic properties on near-term quantum hardware.",
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      "name": "Boni Paul"
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    {
      "name": "Subimal Deb"
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    {
      "name": "Per Jönsson"
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    {
      "name": "Jörgen Ekman"
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    {
      "name": "Bhanu Pratap Das"
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  "doi": "10.48550/arxiv.2611.07835",
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  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.07835",
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  "published": "2026-11-05",
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  "title": "Atomic Transition Rates on a Quantum Annealer",
  "title_text": "Atomic Transition Rates on a Quantum Annealer",
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