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 …

Exploiting symmetry in variational quantum machine learning

JJ Meyer, M Mularski, E Gil-Fuster, AA Mele, F Arzani… - PRX Quantum, 2023 - APS
Variational quantum machine learning is an extensively studied application of near-term
quantum computers. The success of variational quantum learning models crucially depends …

Group-invariant quantum machine learning

M Larocca, F Sauvage, FM Sbahi, G Verdon, PJ Coles… - PRX Quantum, 2022 - APS
Quantum machine learning (QML) models are aimed at learning from data encoded in
quantum states. Recently, it has been shown that models with little to no inductive biases (ie …

A quantum computing view on unitary coupled cluster theory

A Anand, P Schleich, S Alperin-Lea… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
We present a review of the Unitary Coupled Cluster (UCC) ansatz and related ansätze
which are used to variationally solve the electronic structure problem on quantum …

qubit-adapt-vqe: An adaptive algorithm for constructing hardware-efficient ansätze on a quantum processor

HL Tang, VO Shkolnikov, GS Barron, HR Grimsley… - PRX Quantum, 2021 - APS
Quantum simulation, one of the most promising applications of a quantum computer, is
currently being explored intensely using the variational quantum eigensolver. The feasibility …

Diagnosing barren plateaus with tools from quantum optimal control

M Larocca, P Czarnik, K Sharma, G Muraleedharan… - Quantum, 2022 - quantum-journal.org
Abstract Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) have received considerable attention due
to their potential for achieving near-term quantum advantage. However, more work is …

VQE method: a short survey and recent developments

DA Fedorov, B Peng, N Govind, Y Alexeev - Materials Theory, 2022 - Springer
The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is a method that uses a hybrid quantum-
classical computational approach to find eigenvalues of a Hamiltonian. VQE has been …

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 …