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Variational quantum metrology represents a powerful tool for optimizing generic estimation strategies, combining the principles of variational optimization with the techniques of quantum metrology. Such optimization procedures result…

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…

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A recently proposed variational quantum algorithm has expanded the horizon of variational quantum computing to nonlinear physics and fluid dynamics. In this work, we probe the ability of such approaches to capture the ground state of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Muhammad Umer , Eleftherios Mastorakis , Sofia Evangelou , Dimitris G. Angelakis

Quantum computing leverages the quantum resources of superposition and entanglement to efficiently solve computational problems considered intractable for classical computers. Examples include calculating molecular and nuclear structure,…

We study Bosonic representation of spin Ising model with the application of simulating two level systems using continuous variable quantum processors. We decompose the time evolution of spin systems into a sequence of continuous variable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 Razieh Annabestani , Brajesh Gupt , Bhaskar Roy Bardhan

We report the first electronic structure calculation performed on a quantum computer without exponentially costly precompilation. We use a programmable array of superconducting qubits to compute the energy surface of molecular hydrogen…

We assess the use of variational quantum imaginary time evolution for solving partial differential equations. Our results demonstrate that real-amplitude ansaetze with full circular entangling layers lead to higher-fidelity solutions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 Fong Yew Leong , Dax Enshan Koh , Wei-Bin Ewe , Jian Feng Kong

Open quantum systems host a wide range of intriguing phenomena, yet their simulation on well-controlled quantum devices is challenging, owing to the exponential growth of the Hilbert space and the inherently non-unitary nature of the…

We delve into the use of photonic quantum computing to simulate quantum mechanics and extend its application towards quantum field theory. We develop and prove a method that leverages this form of Continuous-Variable Quantum Computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-11 Steven Abel , Michael Spannowsky , Simon Williams

To overcome the fast oscillatory behavior of correlation functions for extracting scattering phase shift in real-time quantum simulations encountered in Ref.\cite{Guo:2026qkx}, we propose and test two solutions in the present work. One is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Peng Guo , Paul LeVan , Frank X. Lee , Yong Zhao

Imaginary-time evolution has been shown to be a promising framework for tackling combinatorial optimization problems on quantum hardware. In this work, we propose a classical quantum-inspired strategy for solving combinatorial optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Erik M. Åsgrim , Ahsan Javed Awan

Quantum chemistry has been viewed as one of the potential early applications of quantum computing. Two techniques have been proposed for electronic structure calculations: (i) the variational quantum eigensolver and (ii) the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-19 Christina Daniel , Diksha Dhawan , Dominika Zgid , James K. Freericks

Linear differential equations are ubiquitous in science and engineering. Quantum computers can simulate quantum systems, which are described by a restricted type of linear differential equations. Here we extend quantum simulation algorithms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-21 Dominic W. Berry

Various methods have been developed for the quantum computation of the ground and excited states of physical and chemical systems, but many of them require either large numbers of ancilla qubits or high-dimensional optimization. The quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-16 Kübra Yeter-Aydeniz , Raphael C. Pooser , George Siopsis

Electronic structure simulation is an anticipated application for quantum computers. Due to high-dimensional quantum entanglement in strongly correlated systems, the quantum resources required to perform such simulations are far beyond the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Jie Liu , Zhenyu Li , Jinlong Yang

We propose an excited-state molecular dynamics simulation method based on variational quantum algorithms at a computational cost comparable to that of ground-state simulations. We utilize the feature that excited states can be obtained as…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-02 Hirotoshi Hirai

Trotterization-based, iterative approaches to quantum simulation are restricted to simulation times less than the coherence time of the quantum computer, which limits their utility in the near term. Here, we present a hybrid…

In this paper we develop a quantum algorithm to realize finite temperature simulation on a quantum computer. As quantum computers use real-time evolution we did not use the imaginary time methods popular on classical algorithms. Instead, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-11 Raffaele Miceli , Michael McGuigan

Estimating the eigenvalue or energy gap of a Hamiltonian H is vital for studying quantum many-body systems. Particularly, many of the problems in quantum chemistry, condensed matter physics, and nuclear physics investigate the energy gap…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-22 Yongdan Yang , Ying Li , Xiaosi Xu , Xiao Yuan

We propose an efficient quantum algorithm for simulating the dynamics of general Hamiltonian systems. Our technique is based on a power series expansion of the time-evolution operator in its off-diagonal terms. The expansion decouples the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 Amir Kalev , Itay Hen