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 …

Quantum computing: progress and prospects

M Horowitz, E Grumbling - 2019 - books.google.com
Quantum mechanics, the subfield of physics that describes the behavior of very small
(quantum) particles, provides the basis for a new paradigm of computing. First proposed in …

Pennylane: Automatic differentiation of hybrid quantum-classical computations

V Bergholm, J Izaac, M Schuld, C Gogolin… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
PennyLane is a Python 3 software framework for differentiable programming of quantum
computers. The library provides a unified architecture for near-term quantum computing …

From the quantum approximate optimization algorithm to a quantum alternating operator ansatz

S Hadfield, Z Wang, B O'gorman, EG Rieffel… - Algorithms, 2019 - mdpi.com
The next few years will be exciting as prototype universal quantum processors emerge,
enabling the implementation of a wider variety of algorithms. Of particular interest are …

Circuit-centric quantum classifiers

M Schuld, A Bocharov, KM Svore, N Wiebe - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
Variational quantum circuits are becoming tools of choice in quantum optimization and
machine learning. In this paper we investigate a class of variational circuits for the purposes …

Robust data encodings for quantum classifiers

R LaRose, B Coyle - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
Data representation is crucial for the success of machine-learning models. In the context of
quantum machine learning with near-term quantum computers, equally important …

Continuous-variable quantum neural networks

N Killoran, TR Bromley, JM Arrazola, M Schuld… - Physical Review …, 2019 - APS
We introduce a general method for building neural networks on quantum computers. The
quantum neural network is a variational quantum circuit built in the continuous-variable (CV) …

Potential of quantum computing for drug discovery

Y Cao, J Romero… - IBM Journal of Research …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quantum computing has rapidly advanced in recent years due to substantial development in
both hardware and algorithms. These advances are carrying quantum computers closer to …

Solving nonlinear differential equations with differentiable quantum circuits

O Kyriienko, AE Paine, VE Elfving - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
We propose a quantum algorithm to solve systems of nonlinear differential equations. Using
a quantum feature map encoding, we define functions as expectation values of parametrized …

Performance of the quantum approximate optimization algorithm on the maximum cut problem

GE Crooks - arxiv preprint arxiv:1811.08419, 2018 - arxiv.org
The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is a promising approach for
programming a near-term gate-based hybrid quantum computer to find good approximate …