Noisy intermediate-scale quantum algorithms

K Bharti, A Cervera-Lierta, TH Kyaw, T Haug… - Reviews of Modern …, 2022 - APS
A universal fault-tolerant quantum computer that can efficiently solve problems such as
integer factorization and unstructured database search requires millions of qubits with low …

NISQ computing: where are we and where do we go?

JWZ Lau, KH Lim, H Shrotriya, LC Kwek - AAPPS bulletin, 2022 - Springer
In this short review article, we aim to provide physicists not working within the quantum
computing community a hopefully easy-to-read introduction to the state of the art in the field …

Absence of barren plateaus in quantum convolutional neural networks

A Pesah, M Cerezo, S Wang, T Volkoff, AT Sornborger… - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
Quantum neural networks (QNNs) have generated excitement around the possibility of
efficiently analyzing quantum data. But this excitement has been tempered by the existence …

Avoiding barren plateaus via transferability of smooth solutions in a Hamiltonian variational ansatz

AA Mele, GB Mbeng, GE Santoro, M Collura, P Torta - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
A large ongoing research effort focuses on variational quantum algorithms (VQAs),
representing leading candidates to achieve computational speed-ups on current quantum …

Tequila: A platform for rapid development of quantum algorithms

JS Kottmann, S Alperin-Lea… - Quantum Science …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Variational quantum algorithms are currently the most promising class of algorithms for
deployment on near-term quantum computers. In contrast to classical algorithms, there are …

Quantum machine learning on near-term quantum devices: Current state of supervised and unsupervised techniques for real-world applications

Y Gujju, A Matsuo, R Raymond - Physical Review Applied, 2024 - APS
The past decade has witnessed significant advancements in quantum hardware,
encompassing improvements in speed, qubit quantity, and quantum volume—a metric …

Graph neural network initialisation of quantum approximate optimisation

N Jain, B Coyle, E Kashefi, N Kumar - Quantum, 2022 - quantum-journal.org
Approximate combinatorial optimisation has emerged as one of the most promising
application areas for quantum computers, particularly those in the near term. In this work, we …

A semi-agnostic ansatz with variable structure for quantum machine learning

M Bilkis, M Cerezo, G Verdon, PJ Coles… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Quantum machine learning (QML) offers a powerful, flexible paradigm for programming near-
term quantum computers, with applications in chemistry, metrology, materials science, data …

Optimized low-depth quantum circuits for molecular electronic structure using a separable-pair approximation

JS Kottmann, A Aspuru-Guzik - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
We present a classically tractable model that leads to optimized low-depth quantum circuits
leveraging separable-pair approximations. The obtained circuits are well suited as a …

Quantum nuclear dynamics on a distributed set of ion-trap quantum computing systems

A Dwivedi, AJ Rasmusson, P Richerme… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Quantum nuclear dynamics with wavepacket time evolution is classically intractable and
viewed as a promising avenue for quantum information processing. Here, we use IonQ …