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 …

Power of data in quantum machine learning

HY Huang, M Broughton, M Mohseni… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The use of quantum computing for machine learning is among the most exciting prospective
applications of quantum technologies. However, machine learning tasks where data is …

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 …

Connecting ansatz expressibility to gradient magnitudes and barren plateaus

Z Holmes, K Sharma, M Cerezo, PJ Coles - PRX Quantum, 2022 - APS
Parametrized quantum circuits serve as ansatze for solving variational problems and
provide a flexible paradigm for the programming of near-term quantum computers. Ideally …

Cost function dependent barren plateaus in shallow parametrized quantum circuits

M Cerezo, A Sone, T Volkoff, L Cincio… - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) optimize the parameters θ of a parametrized
quantum circuit V (θ) to minimize a cost function C. While VQAs may enable practical …

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 …

Parameterized quantum circuits as machine learning models

M Benedetti, E Lloyd, S Sack… - Quantum Science and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Hybrid quantum–classical systems make it possible to utilize existing quantum computers to
their fullest extent. Within this framework, parameterized quantum circuits can be regarded …

Absence of barren plateaus in quantum convolutional neural networks

A Pesah, M Cerezo, S Wang, T Volkoff, AT Sornborger… - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
Quantum neural networks (QNNs) have generated excitement around the possibility of
efficiently analyzing quantum data. But this excitement has been tempered by the existence …