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 …

[HTML][HTML] The variational quantum eigensolver: a review of methods and best practices

J Tilly, H Chen, S Cao, D Picozzi, K Setia, Y Li, E Grant… - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
The variational quantum eigensolver (or VQE), first developed by Peruzzo et al.(2014), has
received significant attention from the research community in recent years. It uses the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Higher order derivatives of quantum neural networks with barren plateaus

M Cerezo, PJ Coles - Quantum Science and Technology, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantum neural networks (QNNs) offer a powerful paradigm for programming near-term
quantum computers and have the potential to speed up applications ranging from data …

Capacity and quantum geometry of parametrized quantum circuits

T Haug, K Bharti, MS Kim - PRX Quantum, 2021 - APS
To harness the potential of noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices, it is paramount to find
the best type of circuits to run hybrid quantum-classical algorithms. Key candidates are …

Quantum Krylov subspace algorithms for ground-and excited-state energy estimation

CL Cortes, SK Gray - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
Quantum Krylov subspace diagonalization (QKSD) algorithms provide a low-cost alternative
to the conventional quantum phase estimation algorithm for estimating the ground-and …

Trainability enhancement of parameterized quantum circuits via reduced-domain parameter initialization

Y Wang, B Qi, C Ferrie, D Dong - Physical Review Applied, 2024 - APS
Parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) have been widely used as a machine learning
model to explore the potential of achieving quantum advantages for various tasks. However …