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Variational methods are employed in situations where exact Bayesian inference becomes intractable due to the difficulty in performing certain integrals. Typically, variational methods postulate a tractable posterior and formulate a lower…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-12 Nikolaos Gianniotis , Christoph Schnörr , Christian Molkenthin , Sanjay Singh Bora

Quantum computers have the potential to deliver speed-ups for solving certain important problems that are intractable for classical counterparts, making them a promising avenue for advancing modern computation. However, many quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Kang-Min Hu , Min Namkung , Hyang-Tag Lim

Gradient-based optimization is a key ingredient of variational quantum algorithms, with applications ranging from quantum machine learning to quantum chemistry and simulation. The parameter-shift rule provides a hardware-friendly method for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Leonardo Banchi , Dominic Branford , Chetan Waghela

Using the path-integral formalism, we generalize the 't Hooft-Veltman method of unitary regulators to put forward a framework for finite, alternative quantum theories to a given quantum field theory. Feynman-like rules of such a finite,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Marijan Ribaric , Luka Sustersic

We discuss various properties of the variational class of continuous matrix product states, a class of ansatz states for one-dimensional quantum fields that was recently introduced as the direct continuum limit of the highly successful…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-23 Jutho Haegeman , J. Ignacio Cirac , Tobias J. Osborne , Frank Verstraete

We prove the existence of barren plateaus in variational quantum algorithms using linear optics with either bosonic or fermionic particles and demonstrate that fermionic linear optics is less susceptible to the barren plateau problem. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Matthew D. Horner

We provide a detailed formulation of the recently proposed variational approach [Y. Ashida et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 026805 (2018)] to study ground-state properties and out-of-equilibrium dynamics for generic quantum spin-impurity…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-13 Yuto Ashida , Tao Shi , Mari Carmen Bañuls , J. Ignacio Cirac , Eugene Demler

The variational principle of quantum mechanics is the backbone of hybrid quantum computing for a range of applications. However, as the problem size grows, quantum logic errors and the effect of barren plateaus overwhelm the quality of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-01 Harish J. Vallury , Michael A. Jones , Charles D. Hill , Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg

Quantum entanglement is a foundational resource in quantum information science, underpinning applications across physics. However, detecting and quantifying entanglement remains a significant challenge. In this article, we introduce a…

We discuss a novel form of the variational approach in Quantum Field Theory in which the trial quantum configuration is represented directly in terms of relevant expectation values rather than, e.g., increasingly complicated structure from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yuriy Mishchenko , Chueng-Ryong Ji

Much progress has been made in the field of quantum computing using continuous variables over the last couple of years. This includes the generation of extremely large entangled cluster states (10,000 modes, in fact) as well as a fault…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 Kevin Marshall , Raphael Pooser , George Siopsis , Christian Weedbrook

Quantum computers have been widely speculated to offer significant advantages in obtaining the ground state of difficult Hamiltonian in chemistry and physics. In this work, we first propose a Lyapunov control-inspired strategy to accelerate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Yu-Cheng Chen , Yu-Qin Chen , Alice Hu , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Shengyu Zhang

Reliable preparation of many-body ground states is an essential task in quantum computing, with applications spanning areas from chemistry and materials modeling to quantum optimization and benchmarking. A variety of approaches have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Ricard Puig , Berta Casas , Alba Cervera-Lierta , Zoë Holmes , Adrián Pérez-Salinas

This paper introduces the use of tailored variational forms for variational quantum eigensolver that have properties of representing certain constraints on the search domain of a linear constrained quadratic binary optimization problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-30 Miguel Paredes Quinones , Catarina Junqueira

We explore an odd class of QFTs where a hierarchy problem is resolved with new dynamics as opposed to new particles. The essential element of our construction is a $U(1)$ pseudo-NG boson with symmetry breaking interactions all characterized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-14 Anson Hook , Riccardo Rattazzi

Quantum computing promises to exploit the laws of quantum mechanics for processing information in ways fundamentally different from today's classical computers, leading to unprecedented efficiency. One-way quantum computation, sometimes…

Quantum few-body systems are deceptively simple. Indeed, with the notable exception of a few special cases, their associated Schrodinger equation cannot be solved analytically for more than two particles. One has to resort to approximation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Paolo Recchia , Debabrota Basu , Mario Gattobigio , Christian Miniatura , Stéphane Bressan

Quantum state tomography is an integral part of quantum computation and offers the starting point for the validation of various quantum devices. One of the central tasks in the field of state tomography is to reconstruct with high fidelity,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Rishabh Gupta , Manas Sajjan , Raphael D. Levine , Sabre Kais

Variational methods play an important role in the study of quantum many-body problems, both in the flavor of classical variational principles based on tensor networks as well as of quantum variational principles in near-term quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 J. Eisert

This work discusses a variational approach to determining the time evolution operator. We directly see a glimpse of how a generalization of the quantum geometric tensor for unitary operators plays a central role in parameter evolution. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Michael Vogl