Near-term quantum computing techniques: Variational quantum algorithms, error mitigation, circuit compilation, benchmarking and classical simulation

HL Huang, XY Xu, C Guo, G Tian, SJ Wei… - Science China Physics …, 2023 - Springer
Quantum computing is a game-changing technology for global academia, research centers
and industries including computational science, mathematics, finance, pharmaceutical …

Tensorcircuit: a quantum software framework for the nisq era

SX Zhang, J Allcock, ZQ Wan, S Liu, J Sun, H Yu… - Quantum, 2023 - quantum-journal.org
TensorCircuit is an open source quantum circuit simulator based on tensor network
contraction, designed for speed, flexibility and code efficiency. Written purely in Python, and …

Entanglement structure and information protection in noisy hybrid quantum circuits

S Liu, MR Li, SX Zhang, SK Jian - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
In the context of measurement-induced entanglement phase transitions, the influence of
quantum noises, which are inherent in real physical systems, is of great importance and …

Quantum error mitigation via matrix product operators

Y Guo, S Yang - PRX Quantum, 2022 - APS
In the era of noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices, the number of controllable hardware
qubits is insufficient to implement quantum error correction. As an alternative, quantum error …

Training variational quantum algorithms with random gate activation

S Liu, SX Zhang, SK Jian, H Yao - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) hold great potential for near-term applications and
are promising to achieve quantum advantage in practical tasks. However, VQAs suffer from …

Partitioning quantum chemistry simulations with Clifford circuits

P Schleich, J Boen, L Cincio, A Anand… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Current quantum computing hardware is restricted by the availability of only few, noisy
qubits which limits the investigation of larger, more complex molecules in quantum chemistry …

Neural-network-encoded variational quantum algorithms

J Miao, CY Hsieh, SX Zhang - Physical Review Applied, 2024 - APS
We introduce a general framework called neural-network-(NN) encoded variational quantum
algorithms (VQAs), or NNVQA for short, to address the challenges of implementing VQAs on …

Sharc-vqe: Simplified hamiltonian approach with refinement and correction enabled variational quantum eigensolver for molecular simulation

H Singh, S Majumder, S Mishra - arxiv preprint arxiv:2407.12305, 2024 - arxiv.org
The transformation of a molecular Hamiltonian from the fermionic space to the qubit space
results in a series of Pauli strings. Calculating the energy then involves evaluating the …

Variational post-selection for ground states and thermal states simulation

SX Zhang, J Miao, CY Hsieh - Quantum Science and Technology, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Variational quantum algorithms, as one of the most promising routes in the noisy
intermediate-scale quantum era, offer various potential applications while also confronting …

Non-Hermitian ground-state-searching algorithm enhanced by a variational toolbox

YQ Chen, SX Zhang, CY Hsieh, S Zhang - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
Ground-state preparation for a given Hamiltonian is a common quantum-computing task of
great importance and has relevant applications in quantum chemistry, computational …