Quantum AS-DeepOnet: Quantum Attentive Stacked DeepONet for Solving 2D Evolution Equations

Abstract: DeepONet enables retraining-free inference across varying initial conditions or source terms at the cost of high computational requirements. This paper proposes a hybrid quantum operator network (Quantum AS-DeepOnet) suitable for solving 2D evolution equations. By combining Parameterized Quantum Circuits and cross-subnet attention methods, we can solve 2D evolution equations using only 60% of the trainable parameters while maintaining accuracy and convergence comparable to the classical DeepONet method.