[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 …

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 …

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 …

Quantum agents in the gym: a variational quantum algorithm for deep q-learning

A Skolik, S Jerbi, V Dunjko - Quantum, 2022 - quantum-journal.org
Quantum machine learning (QML) has been identified as one of the key fields that could
reap advantages from near-term quantum devices, next to optimization and quantum …

Large gradients via correlation in random parameterized quantum circuits

T Volkoff, PJ Coles - Quantum Science and Technology, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Scaling of variational quantum algorithms to large problem sizes requires efficient
optimization of random parameterized quantum circuits. For such circuits with uncorrelated …

Qubit-excitation-based adaptive variational quantum eigensolver

YS Yordanov, V Armaos, CHW Barnes… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Molecular simulations with the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) are a promising
application for emerging noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers. Constructing …

Layer VQE: A variational approach for combinatorial optimization on noisy quantum computers

X Liu, A Angone, R Shaydulin, I Safro… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Combinatorial optimization on near-term quantum devices is a promising path to
demonstrating quantum advantage. However, the capabilities of these devices are …

Exact electronic states with shallow quantum circuits from global optimisation

HGA Burton, D Marti-Dafcik, DP Tew… - npj Quantum …, 2023 - nature.com
Quantum computers promise to revolutionise molecular electronic simulations by
overcoming the exponential memory scaling. While electronic wave functions can be …

The localized active space method with unitary selective coupled cluster

A Mitra, R D'Cunha, Q Wang, MR Hermes… - Journal of chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
We introduce a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm, the localized active space unitary
selective coupled cluster singles and doubles (LAS-USCCSD) method. Derived from the …

Correlation-informed permutation of qubits for reducing ansatz depth in the variational quantum eigensolver

NV Tkachenko, J Sud, Y Zhang, S Tretiak, PM Anisimov… - PRX Quantum, 2021 - APS
The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is a method of choice to solve the electronic
structure problem for molecules on near-term gate-based quantum computers. However, the …