doc: Update script and workflow to update README with arXiv Braket publications

.github/workflows/update-braket-publications.yml

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+name: Update Braket Publications
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: "0 0 * * 1"
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+  pull-requests: write
+
+jobs:
+  update-publications:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    if: github.repository == 'amazon-braket/amazon-braket-sdk-python'
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v6
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.13"
+
+      - name: Run update-braket-publications script
+        run: python3 bin/update-braket-publications.py
+
+      - name: Create Pull Request
+        uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v7
+        with:
+          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          branch: update-braket-publications
+          delete-branch: true
+          title: "documentation: update recent publications using Amazon Braket"
+          body: |
+            Automated update of PUBLICATIONS.md with recent arXiv preprints that use Amazon Braket.
+
+            This PR was created by the weekly scheduled workflow that runs `bin/update-braket-publications.py` to fetch arXiv preprints mentioning Amazon Braket from the past 12 months.
+          commit-message: "documentation: update PUBLICATIONS.md"

PUBLICATIONS.md

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+# Recent Publications Using Amazon Braket
+
+## Publications Using Amazon Braket
+
+| Year | Month | Title | Authors | Link |
+|------|-------|-------|---------|------|
+| 2026 | January | Investigation of Hardware Architecture Effects on Quantum Algorithm Performance: A Comparative Hardware Study | Askar Oralkhan, Temirlan Zhaxalykov | [arXiv:2601.05286](https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05286) |
+| 2025 | March | qReduMIS: A Quantum-Informed Reduction Algorithm for the Maximum Independent Set Problem | Martin J. A. Schuetz, Romina Yalovetzky, Ruben S. Andrist, Grant Salton, Yue Sun, Rudy Raymond, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Atithi Acharya, Ruslan Shaydulin, Marco Pistoia, Helmut G. Katzgraber | [arXiv:2503.12551](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.12551) |
+
+## Publications Mentioning Amazon Braket
+
+| Year | Month | Title | Authors | Link |
+|------|-------|-------|---------|------|
+| 2026 | January | Evaluating state-of-the-art cloud quantum computers for quantum neural networks in gravitational waves data analysis | Maria-Catalina Isfan, Laurentiu-Ioan Caramete, Ana Caramete | [arXiv:2601.14036](https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14036) |
+| 2025 | October | What is Quantum Computer Security? | Sanjay Deshpande, Jakub Szefer | [arXiv:2510.07334](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07334) |
+| 2025 | October | Quantum Computing as a Service -- a Software Engineering Perspective | Aakash Ahmad, Muhammad Waseem, Bakheet Aljedaani, Mahdi Fahmideh, Peng Liang, Feras Awaysheh | [arXiv:2510.04982](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04982) |

README.md

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 ## Sample Notebooks
 Sample Jupyter notebooks can be found in the [amazon-braket-examples](https://github.com/amazon-braket/amazon-braket-examples/) repo.
 
+## Recent Publications Using Amazon Braket
+See [PUBLICATIONS.md](PUBLICATIONS.md) for a list of recent arXiv preprints that use Amazon Braket.
+
 ## Braket Python SDK API Reference Documentation
 
 The API reference, can be found on [Read the Docs](https://amazon-braket-sdk-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).