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The variational quantum eigensolver (or VQE) uses the variational principle to compute the ground state energy of a Hamiltonian, a problem that is central to quantum chemistry and condensed matter physics. Conventional computing methods are…

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) are a modern family of quantum algorithms designed to solve optimization problems using a quantum computer. Typically VQAs rely on a feedback loop between the quantum device and a classical optimization…

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The continued development of computational approaches to many-body ground-state problems in physics and chemistry calls for a consistent way to assess its overall progress. In this work, we introduce a metric of variational accuracy, the…

Adiabatic quantum computing enables the preparation of many-body ground states. This is key for applications in chemistry, materials science, and beyond. Realisation poses major experimental challenges: Direct analog implementation requires…

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

Solving the ground state of quantum many-body systems remains a fundamental challenge in physics and chemistry. Recent advancements in quantum hardware have opened new avenues for addressing this challenge. Inspired by the quantum-enhanced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Longfei Chang , Zhendong Li , Wei-Hai Fang

The variational quantum eigensolver algorithm has gained attentions due to its capability of locating the ground state and ground energy of a Hamiltonian, which is a fundamental task in many physical and chemical problems. Although it has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Trung Huynh , Gwangil An , Minsu Kim , Yu-Seong Jeon , Jinhyoung Lee

The variational quantum-classical algorithms are the most promising approach for achieving quantum advantage on near-term quantum simulators. Among these methods, the variational quantum eigensolver has attracted a lot of attention in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-24 Chufan Lyu , Xusheng Xu , Man-Hong Yung , Abolfazl Bayat

The imaginary-time evolution of quantum states is integral to various fields, ranging from natural sciences to classical optimization or machine learning. Since simulating quantum imaginary-time evolution generally requires storing an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Julien Gacon , Christa Zoufal , Giuseppe Carleo , Stefan Woerner

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…

The Hubbard model has occupied the minds of condensed matter physicists for most part of the last century. This model provides insight into a range of phenomena in correlated electron systems. We wish to examine the paradigm of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Kunal Vyas , Fengping Jin , Hans De Raedt , Kristel Michielsen

We describe a quantum algorithm for preparing states that encode solutions of non-homogeneous linear partial differential equations. The algorithm is a continuous-variable version of matrix inversion: it efficiently inverts differential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Juan Miguel Arrazola , Timjan Kalajdzievski , Christian Weedbrook , Seth Lloyd

We introduce a unified formulation of variational methods for simulating ground state properties of quantum many-body systems. The key feature is a novel variational method over quantum circuits via infinitesimal unitary transformations,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christopher M. Dawson , Jens Eisert , Tobias J. Osborne

Scalable quantum algorithms for the simulation of quantum many-body systems in thermal equilibrium are important for predicting properties of quantum matter at finite temperatures. Here we describe and benchmark a quantum computing version…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 João C. Getelina , Niladri Gomes , Thomas Iadecola , Peter P. Orth , Yong-Xin Yao

One of the most promising applications of quantum computing is simulating quantum many-body systems. However, there is still a need for methods to efficiently investigate these systems in a native way, capturing their full complexity. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-07 Korbinian Kottmann , Friederike Metz , Joana Fraxanet , Niccolo Baldelli

Quantum computers have the potential to transform the ways in which we tackle some important problems. The efforts by companies like Google, IBM and Microsoft to construct quantum computers have been making headlines for years. Equally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Raffaele Miceli , Michael McGuigan

Continuous-variable quantum information, encoded into infinite-dimensional quantum systems, is a promising platform for the realization of many quantum information protocols, including quantum computation, quantum metrology, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-17 Ya-Dong Wu , Ge Bai , Giulio Chiribella , Nana Liu

Eigenstate preparation is ubiquitous in quantum computing, and a standard approach for generating the lowest-energy states of a given system is by employing adiabatic state preparation (ASP). In the present work, we investigate a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-30 Shunji Matsuura , Samantha Buck , Valentin Senicourt , Arman Zaribafiyan

Quantum simulation can help us study poorly understood topics such as high-temperature superconductivity and drug design. However, existing quantum simulation algorithms for current quantum computers often have drawbacks that impede their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-28 Kishor Bharti , Tobias Haug

Advances in quantum simulator technology is increasingly required because research on quantum algorithms is becoming more sophisticated and complex. State vector simulation utilizes CPU and memory resources in computing nodes exponentially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Mikio Morita , Yoshinori Tomita , Junpei Koyama , Koichi Kimura