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We develop an extension of the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithm - multistate, contracted VQE (MC-VQE) - that allows for the efficient computation of the transition energies between the ground state and several low-lying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Robert M. Parrish , Edward G. Hohenstein , Peter L. McMahon , Todd J. Martinez

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is a fundamental algorithm in quantum computing, yet a coherent geometric characterization of VQE remains missing due to fragmented analyses across fixed-ansatz and adaptive-circuit formulations. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Zhen Qin

Generative quantum eigensolver (GQE) is a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm that iteratively trains a classical generative machine learning model such that the model can generate quantum circuits with desired properties such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Junya Nakamura , Shinichiro Sanji

We present a variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithm for the efficient bootstrapping of the causal representation of multiloop Feynman diagrams in the Loop-Tree Duality (LTD) or, equivalently, the selection of acyclic configurations…

This work studies the variational quantum eigensolver algorithm, designed to determine the ground state of a quantum mechanical system by combining classical and quantum hardware. Methods of reducing the number of required qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 R. J. P. T. de Keijzer , V. E. Colussi , B. Škorić , S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans

Most literature in the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) algorithm focuses on finding the ground state of a physical system, by minimizing a quantum-computed cost-function. When excited states are required, the cost-function is usually…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-12 Kyle Sherbert , Marco Buongiorno Nardelli

We propose a new variational quantum algorithm named Variational Open Quantum Eigensolver (VOQE) for solving steady states of open quantum systems described by either Lindblad master equations or non-Hermitian Hamiltonians. In VOQE, density…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Zhong-Xia Shang

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is one of the most prominent algorithms using near-term quantum devices, designed to find the ground state of a Hamiltonian. In VQE, a classical optimizer iteratively updates the parameters in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Chenyu Shi , Vedran Dunjko , Hao Wang

We present the meta-VQE, an algorithm capable to learn the ground state energy profile of a parametrized Hamiltonian. By training the meta-VQE with a few data points, it delivers an initial circuit parametrization that can be used to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-01 Alba Cervera-Lierta , Jakob S. Kottmann , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

We propose a gate optimization method, which we call variational quantum gate optimization (VQGO). VQGO is a method to construct a target multi-qubit gate by optimizing a parametrized quantum circuit which consists of tunable single-qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 Kentaro Heya , Yasunari Suzuki , Yasunobu Nakamura , Keisuke Fujii

Solving combinatorial optimization problems on near-term quantum devices has gained a lot of attraction in recent years. Currently, most works have focused on single-objective problems, whereas many real-world applications need to consider…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Linus Ekstrom , Hao Wang , Sebastian Schmitt

Variational quantum eigensolvers (VQEs) are one of the most important and effective applications of quantum computing, especially in the current noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era. There are mainly two ways for VQEs:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Xin Wang , Bo Qi , Yabo Wang , Daoyi Dong

Variational quantum eigensolvers (VQE) are among the most promising approaches for solving electronic structure problems on near-term quantum computers. A critical challenge for VQE in practice is that one needs to strike a balance between…

In this work, we explored and experimented with new forms of parameterized quantum circuits to be used as variational ansatzes for solving the bosonic and supersymmetric $SU(2)$ matrix models at different couplings using the Variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 H. L. Dao

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for computing ground state energies of molecular systems. We implement VQE to calculate the potential energy surface of the hydrogen molecule (H$_2$) across…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Rylan Malarchick , Ashton Steed

The Adaptive Derivative-Assembled Pseudo-Trotter Variational Quantum Eigensolver (ADAPT-VQE) has emerged as a pivotal promising approach for electronic structure challenges in quantum chemistry with noisy quantum devices. Nevertheless, to…

Quantum variational optimization has been posed as an alternative to solve optimization problems faster and at a larger scale than what classical methods allow. In this paper we study systematically the role of entanglement, the structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-30 Pablo Díez-Valle , Diego Porras , Juan José García-Ripoll

Variational quantum eigensolvers (VQEs) are a promising class of quantum algorithms for preparing approximate ground states in near-term quantum devices. Minimizing the error in such an approximation requires designing ansatzes using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-06 Y. Herasymenko , T. E. O'Brien

In this work, we compare three qubit-mapping strategies to study the structure of the nuclear ground state within the shell model description employing the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) approach. Although the initial point for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-29 Chandan Sarma , Paul Stevenson

Variational quantum algorithms involve training parameterized quantum circuits using a classical co-processor. An important variational algorithm, designed for combinatorial optimization, is the quantum approximate optimization algorithm.…