Ising machines as hardware solvers of combinatorial optimization problems

N Mohseni, PL McMahon, T Byrnes - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Ising machines are hardware solvers that aim to find the absolute or approximate ground
states of the Ising model. The Ising model is of fundamental computational interest because …

Variational quantum algorithms

M Cerezo, A Arrasmith, R Babbush… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Applications such as simulating complicated quantum systems or solving large-scale linear
algebra problems are very challenging for classical computers, owing to the extremely high …

Quantum chemistry in the age of quantum computing

Y Cao, J Romero, JP Olson, M Degroote… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Practical challenges in simulating quantum systems on classical computers have been
widely recognized in the quantum physics and quantum chemistry communities over the …

Evaluating analytic gradients on quantum hardware

M Schuld, V Bergholm, C Gogolin, J Izaac, N Killoran - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
An important application for near-term quantum computing lies in optimization tasks, with
applications ranging from quantum chemistry and drug discovery to machine learning. In …

Quantum approximate optimization algorithm: Performance, mechanism, and implementation on near-term devices

L Zhou, ST Wang, S Choi, H Pichler, MD Lukin - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is a hybrid quantum-classical
variational algorithm designed to tackle combinatorial optimization problems. Despite its …

Pennylane: Automatic differentiation of hybrid quantum-classical computations

V Bergholm, J Izaac, M Schuld, C Gogolin… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
PennyLane is a Python 3 software framework for differentiable programming of quantum
computers. The library provides a unified architecture for near-term quantum computing …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum natural gradient

J Stokes, J Izaac, N Killoran, G Carleo - Quantum, 2020 - quantum-journal.org
A quantum generalization of Natural Gradient Descent is presented as part of a general-
purpose optimization framework for variational quantum circuits. The optimization dynamics …

Barren plateaus in quantum neural network training landscapes

JR McClean, S Boixo, VN Smelyanskiy… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Many experimental proposals for noisy intermediate scale quantum devices involve training
a parameterized quantum circuit with a classical optimization loop. Such hybrid quantum …

A survey on quantum computing technology

L Gyongyosi, S Imre - Computer Science Review, 2019 - Elsevier
The power of quantum computing technologies is based on the fundamentals of quantum
mechanics, such as quantum superposition, quantum entanglement, or the no-cloning …

From the quantum approximate optimization algorithm to a quantum alternating operator ansatz

S Hadfield, Z Wang, B O'gorman, EG Rieffel… - Algorithms, 2019 - mdpi.com
The next few years will be exciting as prototype universal quantum processors emerge,
enabling the implementation of a wider variety of algorithms. Of particular interest are …