diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 55d2d5a0d..1fa74560c 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4,14 +4,15 @@ version = 3
 
 [[package]]
 name = "ahash"
-version = "0.8.3"
+version = "0.8.5"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "2c99f64d1e06488f620f932677e24bc6e2897582980441ae90a671415bd7ec2f"
+checksum = "cd7d5a2cecb58716e47d67d5703a249964b14c7be1ec3cad3affc295b2d1c35d"
 dependencies = [
  "cfg-if",
  "getrandom",
  "once_cell",
  "version_check",
+ "zerocopy",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -802,3 +803,23 @@ name = "windows_x86_64_msvc"
 version = "0.48.5"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "ed94fce61571a4006852b7389a063ab983c02eb1bb37b47f8272ce92d06d9538"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "zerocopy"
+version = "0.7.11"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "4c19fae0c8a9efc6a8281f2e623db8af1db9e57852e04cde3e754dd2dc29340f"
+dependencies = [
+ "zerocopy-derive",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "zerocopy-derive"
+version = "0.7.11"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "fc56589e9ddd1f1c28d4b4b5c773ce232910a6bb67a70133d61c9e347585efe9"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn",
+]
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index d8fba5163..11ed86ea6 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ repository = "https://github.com/Qiskit/rustworkx"
 license = "Apache-2.0"
 
 [workspace.dependencies]
-ahash = "0.8.3"
+ahash = "0.8.5"
 fixedbitset = "0.4.2"
 hashbrown = { version = ">=0.13, <0.15", features = ["rayon"] }
 indexmap = { version = ">=1.9, <3", features = ["rayon"] }