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 …

Superconducting qubits are leading candidates in the race to build a quantum computer
capable of realizing computations beyond the reach of modern supercomputers. The …

The promise of quantum computers is that certain computational tasks might be executed
exponentially faster on a quantum processor than on a classical processor 1. A fundamental …

Abstract Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) technology will be available in the near
future. Quantum computers with 50-100 qubits may be able to perform tasks which surpass …

The aim of this review is to provide quantum engineers with an introductory guide to the
central concepts and challenges in the rapidly accelerating field of superconducting …

Recent decades have witnessed great developments in the field of quantum simulation—
where synthetic systems are built and studied to gain insight into complicated, many-body …

A critical question for quantum computing in the near future is whether quantum devices
without error correction can perform a well-defined computational task beyond the …

Quantum computing (QC) is an emerging paradigm with the potential to offer significant
computational advantage over conventional classical computing by exploiting quantum …

During the last ten years, superconducting circuits have passed from being interesting
physical devices to becoming contenders for near-future useful and scalable quantum …

The field of quantum algorithms aims to find ways to speed up the solution of computational
problems by using a quantum computer. A key milestone in this field will be when a …