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 …

Noise-induced barren plateaus in variational quantum algorithms

S Wang, E Fontana, M Cerezo, K Sharma… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) may be a path to quantum advantage on
Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers. A natural question is whether noise …

Quantum chemistry in the age of quantum computing

Y Cao, J Romero, JP Olson, M Degroote… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Practical challenges in simulating quantum systems on classical computers have been
widely recognized in the quantum physics and quantum chemistry communities over the …

Hybrid quantum-classical algorithms and quantum error mitigation

S Endo, Z Cai, SC Benjamin, X Yuan - Journal of the Physical …, 2021 - journals.jps.jp
Quantum computers can exploit a Hilbert space whose dimension increases exponentially
with the number of qubits. In experiment, quantum supremacy has recently been achieved …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum natural gradient

J Stokes, J Izaac, N Killoran, G Carleo - Quantum, 2020 - quantum-journal.org
A quantum generalization of Natural Gradient Descent is presented as part of a general-
purpose optimization framework for variational quantum circuits. The optimization dynamics …

Limitations of optimization algorithms on noisy quantum devices

D Stilck França, R Garcia-Patron - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Recent successes in producing intermediate-scale quantum devices have focused interest
on establishing whether near-term devices could outperform classical computers for …

Variational quantum linear solver

C Bravo-Prieto, R LaRose, M Cerezo, Y Subasi… - Quantum, 2023 - quantum-journal.org
Previously proposed quantum algorithms for solving linear systems of equations cannot be
implemented in the near term due to the required circuit depth. Here, we propose a hybrid …

Generalized unitary coupled cluster wave functions for quantum computation

J Lee, WJ Huggins, M Head-Gordon… - Journal of chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We introduce a unitary coupled-cluster (UCC) ansatz termed k-UpCCGSD that is based on a
family of sparse generalized doubles operators, which provides an affordable and …