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Most existing methods achieve exceptional performance by relying on multilingual pre-trained language models (mPLM) and translation systems to transfer knowledge across languages. However, little attention has been paid to factors beyond semantic similarity, which ultimately hinders classification performance in target languages. To address this challenge, we propose CLQT, a novel framework that combines contrastive learning pre-training with quantum theory to address the cross-lingual ABSA task. Firstly, we develop a contrastive learning strategy to align data between the source and target languages. Subsequently, we incorporate a quantum network that employs quantum projection and quantum entanglement to facilitate effective knowledge transfer across languages. 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