Quantum optimal control in quantum technologies. Strategic report on current status, visions and goals for research in Europe

CP Koch, U Boscain, T Calarco, G Dirr… - EPJ Quantum …, 2022 - epjqt.epj.org
Quantum optimal control, a toolbox for devising and implementing the shapes of external
fields that accomplish given tasks in the operation of a quantum device in the best way …

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 …

A Lie algebraic theory of barren plateaus for deep parameterized quantum circuits

M Ragone, BN Bakalov, F Sauvage, AF Kemper… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Variational quantum computing schemes train a loss function by sending an initial state
through a parametrized quantum circuit, and measuring the expectation value of some …

Quantum variational algorithms are swamped with traps

ER Anschuetz, BT Kiani - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
One of the most important properties of classical neural networks is how surprisingly
trainable they are, though their training algorithms typically rely on optimizing complicated …

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 …

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 …

A unified theory of barren plateaus for deep parametrized quantum circuits

MVS Cerezo de la Roca, M Ragone, B Bakalov… - Nature …, 2024 - osti.gov
AFV CoverSheet Page 1 LA-UR-23-30483 Accepted Manuscript A Lie algebraic theory of
barren plateaus for deep parameterized quantum circuits Cerezo de la Roca, Marco Vinicio …

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 …

Hybrid quantum-classical algorithms and quantum error mitigation

S Endo, Z Cai, SC Benjamin, X Yuan - Journal of the Physical …, 2021 - journals.jps.jp
Quantum computers can exploit a Hilbert space whose dimension increases exponentially
with the number of qubits. In experiment, quantum supremacy has recently been achieved …

Noise-induced barren plateaus in variational quantum algorithms

S Wang, E Fontana, M Cerezo, K Sharma… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) may be a path to quantum advantage on
Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers. A natural question is whether noise …