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Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs), such as the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA), offer a promising route to tackling combinatorial optimization problems on near and intermediate-term quantum devices. However, their…

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The problem of initializing phase in a quantum computing system is considered. The initialization of phases is a problem when the system is initially present in an entangled state and also in the application of the quantum gate…

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Phase transitions are among the most intriguing phenomena in physical systems, yet their behavior near criticality remain challenging to study using classical algorithms. Parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) offer a promising approach to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Xiaoyang Wang , Han Xu , Lukas Broers , Tomonori Shirakawa , Seiji Yunoki

Advancements in quantum computing have spurred significant interest in harnessing its potential for speedups over classical systems. However, noise remains a major obstacle to achieving reliable quantum algorithms. In this work, we present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Lucas Tecot , Di Luo , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Reliable uncertainty quantification (UQ) is essential for developing machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) in predictive atomistic simulations. Conformal prediction (CP) is a statistical framework that constructs prediction…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Cheuk Hin Ho , Christoph Ortner , Yangshuai Wang

The variational principle serves as a fundamental framework for describing equilibrium states of physical systems via the minimization or extremization of an energy-like functional. While quantum algorithms have demonstrated promising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Katsuhiro Endo , Kazuaki Z. Takahashi

Whether parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) can be systematically constructed to be both trainable and expressive remains an open question. Highly expressive PQCs often exhibit barren plateaus, while several trainable alternatives admit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Peter Röseler , Dennis Willsch , Kristel Michielsen

Quantum machine learning is considered one of the flagship applications of quantum computers, where variational quantum circuits could be the leading paradigm both in the near-term quantum devices and the early fault-tolerant quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Yuqing Li , Jinglei Cheng , Xulong Tang , Youtao Zhang , Frederic T. Chong , Junyu Liu

Current algorithms for large-scale industrial optimization problems typically face a trade-off: they either require exponential time to reach optimal solutions, or employ problem-specific heuristics. To overcome these limitations, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Matteo Vandelli , Francesco Ferrari , Daniele Dragoni

Variational quantum algorithms are viewed as promising candidates for demonstrating quantum advantage on near-term devices. These approaches typically involve the training of parameterized quantum circuits through a classical optimization…

Current quantum computers require algorithms that use limited resources economically. In quantum machine learning, success hinges on quantum feature maps, which embed classical data into the state space of qubits. We introduce Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Jonas Jäger , Philipp Elsässer , Elham Torabian

Many applications in quantum simulation, quantum chemistry, and quantum machine learning require not a single quantum state but an ensemble of states characterizing the heterogeneity of a target system. Preparing such ensembles…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Quoc Hoan Tran , Koki Chinzei , Yasuhiro Endo , Hirotaka Oshima

The current generation of quantum computing technologies call for quantum algorithms that require a limited number of qubits and quantum gates, and which are robust against errors. A suitable design approach are variational circuits where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-10 Maria Schuld , Alex Bocharov , Krysta Svore , Nathan Wiebe

Quantum simulation, the simulation of quantum processes on quantum computers, suggests a path forward for the efficient simulation of problems in condensed-matter physics, quantum chemistry, and materials science. While the majority of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-03 Paul K. Faehrmann , Mark Steudtner , Richard Kueng , Maria Kieferova , Jens Eisert

Variational hybrid quantum-classical algorithms are powerful tools to maximize the use of Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum devices. While past studies have developed powerful and expressive ansatze, their near-term applications have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Sukin Sim , Jonathan Romero , Jerome F. Gonthier , Alexander A. Kunitsa

Given the power of large language and large vision models, it is of profound and fundamental interest to ask if a foundational model based on data and parameter scaling laws and pre-training strategies is possible for learned simulations of…

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) provide a flexible framework for solving forward and inverse problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs), but standard PINN training typically relies on soft penalty formulations that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Binghang Lu , Runyu Zhang , Changhong Mou , Na Li , Guang Lin

An algorithm that initializes a quantum register to a state with a specified energy range is given, corresponding to a quantum implementation of the celebrated Feit-Fleck method. This is performed by introducing a nondeterministic quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-01 F. Fillion-Gourdeau , S. MacLean , R. Laflamme

Quantum generative models may achieve an advantage on quantum devices by their inherent probabilistic nature and efficient sampling strategies. However, current approaches mostly rely on general-purpose circuits, such as the hardware…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Mathis Makarski , Jumpei Kato , Yuki Sato , Naoki Yamamoto

In the era of noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ), variational quantum circuits (VQCs) have been widely applied in various domains, demonstrating the potential advantages of quantum circuits over classical models. Similar to classic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Jun Zhuang , Jack Cunningham , Chaowen Guan