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 …

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 …

Theory for equivariant quantum neural networks

QT Nguyen, L Schatzki, P Braccia, M Ragone, PJ Coles… - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
Quantum neural network architectures that have little to no inductive biases are known to
face trainability and generalization issues. Inspired by a similar problem, recent …

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 …

Quantum computing for high-energy physics: State of the art and challenges

A Di Meglio, K Jansen, I Tavernelli, C Alexandrou… - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
Quantum computers offer an intriguing path for a paradigmatic change of computing in the
natural sciences and beyond, with the potential for achieving a so-called quantum …

NISQ computing: where are we and where do we go?

JWZ Lau, KH Lim, H Shrotriya, LC Kwek - AAPPS bulletin, 2022 - Springer
In this short review article, we aim to provide physicists not working within the quantum
computing community a hopefully easy-to-read introduction to the state of the art in the field …

Quantum algorithms for quantum dynamics

A Miessen, PJ Ollitrault, F Tacchino… - Nature Computational …, 2023 - nature.com
Among the many computational challenges faced across different disciplines, quantum-
mechanical systems pose some of the hardest ones and offer a natural playground for the …

Does provable absence of barren plateaus imply classical simulability? Or, why we need to rethink variational quantum computing

M Cerezo, M Larocca, D García-Martín, NL Diaz… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
A large amount of effort has recently been put into understanding the barren plateau
phenomenon. In this perspective article, we face the increasingly loud elephant in the room …