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Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) face an inherent trade-off between expressivity and trainability: deeper circuits can represent richer states but suffer from noise accumulation and barren plateaus, while shallow circuits remain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Shaojun Wu , Shan Jin , Abolfazl Bayat , Xiaoting Wang

A novel class of hybrid quantum-classical algorithms based on the variational approach have recently emerged from separate proposals addressing, for example, quantum chemistry and combinatorial problems. These algorithms provide an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-09 Gian Giacomo Guerreschi , Mikhail Smelyanskiy

Adiabatic transport provides a powerful way to manipulate quantum states. By preparing a system in a readily initialised state and then slowly changing its Hamiltonian, one may achieve quantum states that would otherwise be inaccessible.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-13 P. J. D. Crowley , T. Duric , W. Vinci , P. A. Warburton , A. G. Green

We introduce protocols to prepare many-body quantum states with quantum circuits assisted by local operations and classical communication. We show that by lifting the requirement of exact preparation, one can substantially save resources.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Lorenzo Piroli , Georgios Styliaris , J. Ignacio Cirac

The Quantum State Preparation problem aims to prepare an $n$-qubit quantum state $|\psi_v\rangle =\sum_{k=0}^{2^n-1}v_k|k\rangle$ from the initial state $|0\rangle^{\otimes n}$, for a given unit vector $v=(v_0,v_1,v_2,\ldots,v_{2^n-1})^T\in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-23 Xiaoming Sun , Guojing Tian , Shuai Yang , Pei Yuan , Shengyu Zhang

Loading classical data into quantum registers is one of the most important primitives of quantum computing. While the complexity of preparing a generic quantum state is exponential in the number of qubits, in many practical tasks the state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-02 Fereshte Mozafari , Giovanni De Micheli , Yuxiang Yang

In this report, we propose a novel quantum diagonalization algorithm based on the optimization of variational quantum circuits. Diagonalizing a quantum state is a fundamental yet computationally challenging task in quantum information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Juan Yao

Near-term quantum computers have significant error rates and short coherence times, so compilation of circuits to be as short as possible is essential. Two types of compilation problems are typically considered: circuits to prepare a given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-22 Aaron Szasz , Ed Younis , Wibe de Jong

Current universal quantum computers have a limited number of noisy qubits. Because of this, it is difficult to use them to solve large-scale complex optimization problems. In this paper we tackle this issue by proposing a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-30 Pablo Bermejo , Roman Orus

Individually trapped Rydberg atoms show significant promise as a platform for scalable quantum simulation and for development of programmable quantum computers. In particular, the Rydberg blockade effect can be used to facilitate both fast…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Valerio Crescimanna , Jacob Taylor , Aaron Z. Goldberg , Khabat Heshami

Analog models of quantum information processing, such as adiabatic quantum computation and analog quantum simulation, require the ability to subject a system to precisely specified Hamiltonians. Unfortunately, the hardware used to implement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-25 Kevin C. Young , Robin Blume-Kohout , Daniel A. Lidar

We use Pauli Path simulation to variationally obtain parametrized circuits for preparing ground states of various quantum many-body Hamiltonians. These include the quantum Ising model in one dimension, in two dimensions on square and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Cheng-Ju Lin , Hrant Gharibyan , Vincent P. Su

By exploiting the invariance of the molecular Hamiltonian by a unitary transformation of the orbitals it is possible to significantly shorter the depth of the variational circuit in the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) algorithm by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Leonardo Ratini , Chiara Capecci , Leonardo Guidoni

The preparation of quantum Gibbs states at finite temperatures is a cornerstone of quantum computation, enabling applications in quantum simulation of many-body systems, machine learning via quantum Boltzmann machines, and optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Rui-Hao Li , Semeon Valgushev , Khadijeh Najafi

A fundamental step of any quantum algorithm is the preparation of qubit registers in a suitable initial state. Often qubit registers represent a discretization of continuous variables and the initial state is defined by a multivariate…

We provide an efficient and general route for preparing non-trivial quantum states that are not adiabatically connected to unentangled product states. Our approach is a hybrid quantum-classical variational protocol that incorporates a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-08 Wen Wei Ho , Timothy H. Hsieh

An adiabatic state preparation technique, called the adiabatic spiral, is proposed for the Heisenberg model. This technique is suitable for implementation on a number of quantum simulation platforms such as Rydberg atoms, trapped ions, or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-05 Anthony N. Ciavarella , Stephan Caspar , Marc Illa , Martin J. Savage

Preparation of a specific quantum state is a required step for a variety of proposed practical uses of quantum dynamics. We report an experimental demonstration of optical quantum state preparation in a semiconductor quantum dot with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-25 Yanwen Wu , I. M. Piper , M. Ediger , P. Brereton , E. R. Schmidgall , M. Hugues , M. Hopkinson , R. T. Phillips

In his famous 1981 talk, Feynman proposed that unlike classical computers, which would presumably experience an exponential slowdown when simulating quantum phenomena, a universal quantum simulator would not. An ideal quantum simulator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-04 J. D. Biamonte , V. Bergholm , J. D. Whitfield , J. Fitzsimons , A. Aspuru-Guzik

The paradigm of measurement-based quantum computing (MBQC) starts from a highly entangled resource state on which unitary operations are executed through adaptive measurements and corrections ensuring determinism. This is set in contrast to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-29 Thierry Nicolas Kaldenbach , Matthias Heller