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Quantum computing promises to efficiently and accurately solve many important problems in quantum chemistry which elude classical solvers, such as the electronic structure problem of highly correlated materials. Two leading methods in…

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Numerous quantum algorithms operate under the assumption that classical data has already been converted into quantum states, a process termed Quantum State Preparation (QSP). However, achieving precise QSP requires a circuit depth that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Yilun Zhao , Bingmeng Wang , Wenle Jiang , Xiwei Pan , Bing Li , Yinhe Han , Ying Wang

Computing many-body ground state energies and resolving electronic structure calculations are fundamental problems for fields such as quantum chemistry or condensed matter. Several quantum computing algorithms that address these problems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-12 Karen J. Morenz Korol , Kenny Choo , Antonio Mezzacapo

Quantum Computing allows, in principle, the encoding of the exponentially scaling many-electron wave function onto a linearly scaling qubit register, offering a promising solution to overcome the limitations of traditional quantum chemistry…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 C. Feniou , O. Adjoua , B. Claudon , J. Zylberman , E. Giner , J. -P. Piquemal

The propagation of errors severely compromises the reliability of quantum computations. The quantum adiabatic algorithm is a physically motivated method to prepare ground states of classical and quantum Hamiltonians. Here, we analyze the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-25 Benjamin F. Schiffer , Adrian Franco Rubio , Rahul Trivedi , J. Ignacio Cirac

Mapping out phase diagrams of quantum systems using classical simulations can be challenging or intractable due to the computational resources required to simulate even small quantum systems far away from the thermodynamic limit. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 Jan Lukas Bosse , Raul Santos , Ashley Montanaro

We introduce AQCtensor, a novel algorithm to produce short-depth quantum circuits from Matrix Product States (MPS). Our approach is specifically tailored to the preparation of quantum states generated from the time evolution of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Niall F. Robertson , Albert Akhriev , Jiri Vala , Sergiy Zhuk

Quantum computers can accurately compute ground state energies using phase estimation, but this requires a guiding state that has significant overlap with the true ground state. For large molecules and extended materials, it becomes…

Quantum computers promise to revolutionize our ability to simulate molecules, and cloud-based hardware is becoming increasingly accessible to a wide body of researchers. Algorithms such as Quantum Phase Estimation and the Variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 Kyle Sherbert , Frank Cerasoli , Marco Buongiorno Nardelli

We present a technique that dramatically improves the accuracy of adiabatic state transfer for a broad class of realistic Hamiltonians. For some systems, the total error scaling can be quadratically reduced at a fixed maximum transfer rate.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-17 Nathan Wiebe , Nathan S. Babcock

Effective low-energy theories represent powerful theoretical tools to reduce the complexity in modeling interacting quantum many-particle systems. However, common theoretical methods rely on perturbation theory, which limits their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-18 Laura Gentini , Alessandro Cuccoli , Leonardo Banchi

Random many-body states are both a useful tool to model certain physical systems and an important asset for quantum computation. Realising them, however, generally requires an exponential (in system size) amount of resources. Recent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-10 Jonathon Riddell , Katja Klobas , Bruno Bertini

A new method is proposed for determining the ground state wave function of a quantum many-body system on a quantum computer, without requiring an initial trial wave function that has good overlap with the true ground state. The technique of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-26 David B. Kaplan , Natalie Klco , Alessandro Roggero

While the preparation of a general quantum state is challenging, realistic problem instances, such as those encountered in quantum chemistry and quantum machine learning-typically exhibit hierarchical amplitude structures, consisting of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Yue Wang , Xiao-Ming Zhang , Xiao Yuan , Qi Zhao

Quantum cooling, a deterministic process that drives any state to the lowest eigenstate, has been widely used from studying ground state properties of chemistry and condensed matter quantum physics, to general optimization problems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-06 Pei Zeng , Jinzhao Sun , Xiao Yuan

We propose a quantum-classical hybrid variational algorithm, the quantum orbital minimization method (qOMM), for obtaining the ground state and low-lying excited states of a Hermitian operator. Given parameterized ansatz circuits…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Joel Bierman , Yingzhou Li , Jianfeng Lu

Controlled quantum mechanical devices provide a means of simulating more complex quantum systems exponentially faster than classical computers. Such "quantum simulators" rely heavily upon being able to prepare the ground state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-01 Dvir Kafri , Jacob M. Taylor

Quantum computing holds immense promise for simulating quantum systems, a critical task for advancing our understanding of complex quantum phenomena. One of the primary goals in this domain is to accurately approximate the ground state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 Thilo R. Müller , Manuel Geiger , Christian B. Mendl

The task of learning a quantum circuit to prepare a given mixed state is a fundamental quantum subroutine. We present a variational quantum algorithm (VQA) to learn mixed states which is suitable for near-term hardware. Our algorithm…

Adaptive quantum circuits employ unitary gates assisted by mid-circuit measurement, classical computation on the measurement outcome, and the conditional application of future unitary gates based on the result of the classical computation.…