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The representation of a quantum wave function as a neural network quantum state (NQS) provides a powerful variational ansatz for finding the ground states of many-body quantum systems. Nevertheless, due to the complex variational landscape,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Eimantas Ledinauskas , Egidijus Anisimovas

The quantum approximate optimisation algorithm was proposed as a heuristic method for solving combinatorial optimisation problems on near-term quantum computers and may be among the first algorithms to perform useful computations in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-10 David Headley , Thorge Müller , Ana Martin , Enrique Solano , Mikel Sanz , Frank K. Wilhelm

The characterization of quantum phase transitions is a fundamental task for the understanding of quantum phases of matter, with a number of potential applications in quantum technologies. In this work, we use digital quantum simulation as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Alan Duriez , Andreia Saguia , Marcelo S. Sarandy

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

It is exponentially hard to simulate quantum systems by classical algorithms, while quantum computer could in principle solve this problem polynomially. We demonstrate such an quantum-simulation algorithm on our NMR system to simulate an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-22 Jiangfeng Du , Nanyang Xu , Xinhua Peng , Pengfei Wang , Sanfeng Wu , Dawei Lu

Feynmans ideas to employ quantum systems for simulating other quantum systems gave rise to quantum simulation. While current quantum computers are still prone to decoherence and rely on error correction, the development of hybrid algorithms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-13 Alan Anaya , Francisco Delgado

Variational quantum algorithms dominate contemporary gate-based quantum enhanced optimisation, eigenvalue estimation and machine learning. Here we establish the quantum computational universality of variational quantum computation by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-25 Jacob Biamonte

Quantum computing has brought a paradigm change in computer science, where non-classical technologies have promised to outperform their classical counterpart. Such an advantage was only demonstrated for tasks without practical applications,…

Efficient low-energy state preparation is a key objective in quantum computation and quantum simulation. Quantum imaginary-time evolution replaces real-time dynamics with imaginary-time dynamics, exponentially suppressing higher-energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Tal Schwartzman , Torsten V. Zache , Hannes Pichler , H. R. Sadeghpour

We introduce two kinds of quantum algorithms to explore microcanonical and canonical properties of many-body systems. The first one is a hybrid quantum algorithm that, given an efficiently preparable state, computes expectation values in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Sirui Lu , Mari Carmen Bañuls , J. Ignacio Cirac

In this paper, we investigate the use of variational quantum algorithms for simulating the thermodynamic properties of dinuclear metal complexes. Our study highlights the potential of quantum computing to transform advanced simulations and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Ana Clara das Neves Silva , Clebson Cruz

Variational Quantum Imaginary Time Evolution (VQITE) is a leading technique for ground state preparation on quantum computers. A significant computational challenge of VQITE is the determination of the quantum geometric tensor. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Aeishah Ameera Anuar , Francois Jamet , Fabio Gironella , Fedor Simkovic , Riccardo Rossi

Anharmonic potential quantum system play crucial role in physics as they provide a more realistic description of oscillatory phenomena, which often deviate from the idealized harmonic model. However, simulating such system on classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Saurav Suman , Bikash K. Behera , Vivek Vyas , Prasanta k. Panigrahi

Variational hybrid quantum-classical algorithms are some of the most promising workloads for near-term quantum computers without error correction. The aim of these variational algorithms is to guide the quantum system to a target state that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-18 Shavindra P. Premaratne , A. Y. Matsuura

Variational hybrid quantum-classical optimization represents one of the most promising avenue to show the advantage of nowadays noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers in solving hard problems, such as finding the minimum-energy state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Laura Gentini , Alessandro Cuccoli , Stefano Pirandola , Paola Verrucchi , Leonardo Banchi

We show that optimal control of the electron dynamics is able to prepare molecular ground states, within chemical accuracy, with evolution times approaching the bounds imposed by quantum mechanics. We propose a specific parameterization of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Davide Castaldo , Marta Rosa , Stefano Corni

Quantum state tomography is a key process in most quantum experiments. In this work, we employ quantum machine learning for state tomography. Given an unknown quantum state, it can be learned by maximizing the fidelity between the output of…

The recent advancement of quantum computer hardware offers the potential to simulate quantum many-body systems beyond the capability of its classical counterparts. However, most current works focus on simulating the ground-state properties…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Chee Kong Lee , Shi-Xin Zhang , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Shengyu Zhang , Liang Shi

We develop a new algorithm based on the time-dependent variational principle applied to matrix product states to efficiently simulate the real- and imaginary time dynamics for infinite one-dimensional quantum lattice systems. This…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-03-13 Jutho Haegeman , J. Ignacio Cirac , Tobias J. Osborne , Iztok Pizorn , Henri Verschelde , Frank Verstraete

We explore the preparation of specific nuclear states on gate-based quantum hardware using variational algorithms. Large scale classical diagonalization of the nuclear shell model have reached sizes of $10^9 - 10^{10}$ basis states, but are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-07-11 I. Stetcu , A. Baroni , J. Carlson