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Variational algorithms have received significant attention in recent years due to their potential to solve practical problems using noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. A fundamental step of these algorithms is the evaluation of…

The accelerated progress in manufacturing noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computing hardware has opened the possibility of exploring its application in transforming approaches to solving computationally challenging problems. The…

Variational-Quantum-Eigensolver(VQE) method on a quantum computer is a well-known hybrid algorithm to solve the eigenstates and eigenvalues that uses both quantum and classical computers. This method has the potential to solve quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-15 Hikaru Wakaura , Takao Tomono , Shoya Yasuda

We propose a divide-and-conquer method for the quantum-classical hybrid algorithm to solve larger problems with small-scale quantum computers. Specifically, we concatenate a variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) with a reduction in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Keisuke Fujii , Kaoru Mizuta , Hiroshi Ueda , Kosuke Mitarai , Wataru Mizukami , Yuya O. Nakagawa

Within the present noisy intermediate-scale quantum-computing era, hybrid quantum-classical-processor algorithms have emerged as promising avenues for tackling electronic-structure eigenproblems. Among them, the so-called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Christophe Soule , Bruno Senjean , Benjamin Lasorne

Quantum computers are expected to be highly beneficial for chemistry simulations, promising significant improvements in accuracy and speed. The most prominent algorithm for chemistry simulations on NISQ devices is the Variational Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Marita Oliv , Andrea Matic , Thomas Messerer , Jeanette Miriam Lorenz

Key properties of physical systems can be described by the eigenvalues of matrices that represent the system. Computational algorithms that determine the eigenvalues of these matrices exist, but they generally suffer from a loss of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 T. Powers , R. M. Rajapakse

Problems in quantum chemical simulations, especially achieving accurate excited-state potential energy surfaces, are among the primary applications to achieve quantum utility. On near-term quantum hardware, variants of the variational…

Quantum computers are ideal for solving chemistry problems due to their polynomial scaling with system size in contrast to classical computers which scale exponentially. Until now molecular energy calculations using quantum computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-15 Alexander Teplukhin , Brian K. Kendrick , Dmitri Babikov

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

Quantum algorithms on the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices are expected to simulate quantum systems that are classically intractable to demonstrate quantum advantages. However, the non-negligible gate error on the NISQ…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-06 Joseph C. Aulicino , Trevor Keen , Bo Peng

The determination of the ground and low-lying excited states is critical in many studies of quantum chemistry and condensed-matter physics. Recent theoretical work proposes a variational quantum eigensolver using ancillary qubits to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Huili Zhang , Yibin Guo , Guanglei Xu , Yulong Feng , Jingning Zhang , Hai-feng Yu , S. P. Zhao

Quantum simulation of complex quantum systems and their properties often requires the ability to prepare initial states in an eigenstate of the Hamiltonian to be simulated. In addition, to compute the eigenvalues of a Hamiltonian is in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-21 Jing-Ning Zhang , Iñigo Arrazola , Jorge Casanova , Lucas Lamata , Kihwan Kim , Enrique Solano

Quantum annealing is a way to prepare an eigenstate of the problem Hamiltonian. Starting from an eigenstate of a trivial Hamiltonian, we slowly change the Hamiltonian to the problem Hamiltonian, and the system remains in the eigenstate of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-26 Takashi Imoto , Yuki Susa , Ryoji Miyazaki , Tadashi Kadowaki , Yuichiro Matsuzaki

Hybrid quantum-classical algorithms have been proposed as a potentially viable application of quantum computers. A particular example - the variational quantum eigensolver, or VQE - is designed to determine a global minimum in an energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Alexey Uvarov , Jacob Biamonte , Dmitry Yudin

Highly excited vibrational states of an isolated molecule encode the vibrational energy flow pathways in the molecule. Recent studies have had spectacular success in understanding the nature of the excited states mainly due to the extensive…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Semparithi , V. Charulatha , S. Keshavamurthy

Solving non-Hermitian quantum many-body systems on a quantum computer by minimizing the variational energy is challenging as the energy can be complex. Here, based on energy variance, we propose a variational method for solving the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-21 Xu-Dan Xie , Zheng-Yuan Xue , Dan-Bo Zhang

The rapid progress of noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computing underscores the need to test and evaluate new devices and applications. Quantum chemistry is a key application area for these devices, and therefore serves as an…

Quantum computers have the potential to help solve a range of physics and chemistry problems, but noise in quantum hardware currently limits our ability to obtain accurate results from the execution of quantum-simulation algorithms. Various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-13 Eliott Rosenberg , Paul Ginsparg , Peter L. McMahon

Finding eigenstates of a given many-body Hamiltonian is a long-standing challenge due to the perceived computational complexity. Leveraging on the hardware of a quantum computer accommodating the exponential growth of the Hilbert space size…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Nannan Ma , Heng Dai , Jiangbin Gong