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The most widely used approach for simulating the dynamics of time-dependent Hamiltonians via quantum computation depends on the quantum-classical hybrid variational quantum time evolution algorithm, in which ordinary differential equations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Minchen Qiao , Zi-Ming Li , Yu-xi Liu

The simulation of time evolution of large quantum systems is a classically challenging and in general intractable task, making it a promising application for quantum computation. A Trotter-Suzuki approximation yields an implementation…

In this paper, we present a proof-of-concept quantum algorithm for simulating time-dependent Hamiltonian evolution by reducing the problem to simulating a time-independent Hamiltonian in a larger space using a discrete clock Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-28 Zecheng Li , Chunhao Wang

We propose a variational scheme to represent composite quantum systems using multiple parameterized functions of varying accuracies on both classical and quantum hardware. The approach follows the variational principle over the entire…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Stefano Barison , Filippo Vicentini , Giuseppe Carleo

We show that nonlinear problems including nonlinear partial differential equations can be efficiently solved by variational quantum computing. We achieve this by utilizing multiple copies of variational quantum states to treat…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Michael Lubasch , Jaewoo Joo , Pierre Moinier , Martin Kiffner , Dieter Jaksch

In this work we present a detailed analysis of variational quantum phase estimation (VQPE), a method based on real-time evolution for ground and excited state estimation on near-term hardware. We derive the theoretical ground on which the…

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

Quantum machine learning has the potential to provide powerful algorithms for artificial intelligence. The pursuit of quantum advantage in quantum machine learning is an active area of research. For current noisy, intermediate-scale quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-11 Rui Yang , Samuel Bosch , Bobak Kiani , Seth Lloyd , Adrian Lupascu

Realizing a large-scale quantum computer requires hardware platforms that can simultaneously achieve universality, scalability, and fault tolerance. As a viable pathway to meeting these requirements, quantum computation based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Kosuke Fukui , Shuntaro Takeda

Calibrating the role of entanglement in quantum algorithms is a crucial task in the development of quantum computing. Most existing studies have primarily focused on how the static properties of entanglement-such as its magnitude and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Chunxiao Du , Yang Zhou , Zhichen Huang , Rui Li , Zheng Qin , Shikun Zhang , Zhisong Xiao

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.…

Quantum Variational Circuits (QVCs) are often claimed as one of the most potent uses of both near term and long term quantum hardware. The standard approaches to optimizing these circuits rely on a classical system to compute the new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-11 Owen Lockwood

The relative power of quantum algorithms, using an adaptive access to quantum devices, versus classical post-processing methods that rely only on an initial quantum data set, remains the subject of active debate. Here, we present evidence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Oleksandr Kyriienko , Chukwudubem Umeano , Zoë Holmes

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) provide a promising approach to achieve quantum advantage in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum era. In this era, quantum computers experience high error rates and quantum error detection and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Salonik Resch , Anthony Gutierrez , Joon Suk Huh , Srikant Bharadwaj , Yasuko Eckert , Gabriel Loh , Mark Oskin , Swamit Tannu

This effort examines the intersection of the emerging field of quantum computing and the more established field of evolutionary computation. The goal is to understand what benefits quantum computing might offer to computational intelligence…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Donald A. Sofge

Variational quantum algorithms, which combine highly expressive parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) and optimization techniques in machine learning, are one of the most promising applications of a near-term quantum computer. Despite their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-07 Chae-Yeun Park , Nathan Killoran

Recently, variational quantum metrology was proposed for Hamiltonians with multiplicative parameters, wherein the estimation precision can be optimized via variational circuits. However, systems with generic Hamiltonians still lack these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 Le Bin Ho

This work presents a comprehensive overview of variational quantum computing and their key role in advancing quantum simulation. This work explores the simulation of quantum systems and sets itself apart from approaches centered on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Lucas Q. Galvão , Anna Beatriz M. de Souza , Marcelo A. Moret , Clebson Cruz

Digital quantum simulation relies on Trotterization to discretize time evolution into elementary quantum gates. On current quantum processors with notable gate imperfections, there is a critical tradeoff between improved accuracy for finer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 Hongzheng Zhao , Marin Bukov , Markus Heyl , Roderich Moessner

We introduce a variational hybrid classical-quantum algorithm to simulate the Lindblad master equation and its adjoint for time-evolving Markovian open quantum systems and quantum observables. Our method is based on a direct representation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-19 Tasneem Watad , Netanel H. Lindner