Quantum computing for high-energy physics: State of the art and challenges

A Di Meglio, K Jansen, I Tavernelli, C Alexandrou… - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
Quantum computers offer an intriguing path for a paradigmatic change of computing in the
natural sciences and beyond, with the potential for achieving a so-called quantum …

Preparation of matrix product states with log-depth quantum circuits

D Malz, G Styliaris, ZY Wei, JI Cirac - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We consider the preparation of matrix product states (MPS) on quantum devices via
quantum circuits of local gates. We first prove that faithfully preparing translation-invariant …

A review of barren plateaus in variational quantum computing

M Larocca, S Thanasilp, S Wang, K Sharma… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Variational quantum computing offers a flexible computational paradigm with applications in
diverse areas. However, a key obstacle to realizing their potential is the Barren Plateau (BP) …

Does provable absence of barren plateaus imply classical simulability? Or, why we need to rethink variational quantum computing

M Cerezo, M Larocca, D García-Martín, NL Diaz… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
A large amount of effort has recently been put into understanding the barren plateau
phenomenon. In this perspective article, we face the increasingly loud elephant in the room …

Quantum convolutional neural networks are (effectively) classically simulable

P Bermejo, P Braccia, MS Rudolph, Z Holmes… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks (QCNNs) are widely regarded as a promising
model for Quantum Machine Learning (QML). In this work we tie their heuristic success to …

Trainability barriers and opportunities in quantum generative modeling

MS Rudolph, S Lerch, S Thanasilp, O Kiss… - npj Quantum …, 2024 - nature.com
Quantum generative models provide inherently efficient sampling strategies and thus show
promise for achieving an advantage using quantum hardware. In this work, we investigate …

Decomposition of matrix product states into shallow quantum circuits

MS Rudolph, J Chen, J Miller, A Acharya… - Quantum Science …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Tensor networks (TNs) are a family of computational methods built on graph-structured
factorizations of large tensors, which have long represented state-of-the-art methods for the …

Towards large-scale quantum optimization solvers with few qubits

M Sciorilli, L Borges, TL Patti, D García-Martín… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Quantum computers hold the promise of more efficient combinatorial optimization solvers,
which could be game-changing for a broad range of applications. However, a bottleneck for …

Parallel implementation of the Density Matrix Renormalization Group method achieving a quarter petaFLOPS performance on a single DGX-H100 GPU node

A Menczer, M van Damme, A Rask… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
We report cutting edge performance results on a single node hybrid CPU-multi-GPU
implementation of the spin adapted ab initio Density Matrix Renormalization Group (DMRG) …

Lie-algebraic classical simulations for variational quantum computing

ML Goh, M Larocca, L Cincio, M Cerezo… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Classical simulation of quantum dynamics plays an important role in our understanding of
quantum complexity, and in the development of quantum technologies. Compared to other …