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 …

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 …

Generalization in quantum machine learning from few training data

MC Caro, HY Huang, M Cerezo, K Sharma… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Modern quantum machine learning (QML) methods involve variationally optimizing a
parameterized quantum circuit on a training data set, and subsequently making predictions …

Connecting ansatz expressibility to gradient magnitudes and barren plateaus

Z Holmes, K Sharma, M Cerezo, PJ Coles - PRX Quantum, 2022 - APS
Parametrized quantum circuits serve as ansatze for solving variational problems and
provide a flexible paradigm for the programming of near-term quantum computers. Ideally …

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 …

Theory of overparametrization in quantum neural networks

M Larocca, N Ju, D García-Martín, PJ Coles… - Nature Computational …, 2023 - nature.com
The prospect of achieving quantum advantage with quantum neural networks (QNNs) is
exciting. Understanding how QNN properties (for example, the number of parameters M) …

Diagnosing barren plateaus with tools from quantum optimal control

M Larocca, P Czarnik, K Sharma, G Muraleedharan… - Quantum, 2022 - quantum-journal.org
Abstract Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) have received considerable attention due
to their potential for achieving near-term quantum advantage. However, more work is …

Quantum algorithms for quantum dynamics

A Miessen, PJ Ollitrault, F Tacchino… - Nature Computational …, 2023 - nature.com
Among the many computational challenges faced across different disciplines, quantum-
mechanical systems pose some of the hardest ones and offer a natural playground for the …

Barren plateaus preclude learning scramblers

Z Holmes, A Arrasmith, B Yan, PJ Coles, A Albrecht… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Scrambling processes, which rapidly spread entanglement through many-body quantum
systems, are difficult to investigate using standard techniques, but are relevant to quantum …

General parameter-shift rules for quantum gradients

D Wierichs, J Izaac, C Wang, CYY Lin - Quantum, 2022 - quantum-journal.org
Variational quantum algorithms are ubiquitous in applications of noisy intermediate-scale
quantum computers. Due to the structure of conventional parametrized quantum gates, the …