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Parameterized quantum circuits are a promising technology for achieving a quantum advantage. An important application is the variational simulation of time evolution of quantum systems. To make the most of quantum hardware, variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Marcello Benedetti , Mattia Fiorentini , Michael Lubasch

We propose an orbital optimized method for unitary coupled cluster theory (OO-UCC) within the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) framework for quantum computers. OO-UCC variationally determines the coupled cluster amplitudes and also…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-23 Wataru Mizukami , Kosuke Mitarai , Yuya O. Nakagawa , Takahiro Yamamoto , Tennin Yan , Yu-ya Ohnishi

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

We present a new adaptive method for electronic structure calculations based on novel fast algorithms for reduction of multivariate mixtures. In our calculations, spatial orbitals are maintained as Gaussian mixtures whose terms are selected…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-19 Gregory Beylkin , Lucas Monzon , Xinshuo Yang

We propose a quantum-classical hybrid algorithm to simulate the non-equilibrium steady state of an open quantum many-body system, named the dissipative-system Variational Quantum Eigensolver (dVQE). To employ the variational optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-07 Nobuyuki Yoshioka , Yuya O. Nakagawa , Kosuke Mitarai , Keisuke Fujii

We present a quantum algorithm for systems of (possibly inhomogeneous) linear ordinary differential equations with constant coefficients. The algorithm produces a quantum state that is proportional to the solution at a desired final time.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-07 Dominic W. Berry , Andrew M. Childs , Aaron Ostrander , Guoming Wang

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) represent a promising approach to utilizing current quantum computing infrastructures. VQAs are based on a parameterized quantum circuit optimized in a closed loop via a classical algorithm. This hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 David Fitzek , Robert S. Jonsson , Werner Dobrautz , Christian Schäfer

The gradient descent approach is the key ingredient in variational quantum algorithms and machine learning tasks, which is an optimization algorithm for finding a local minimum of an objective function. The quantum versions of gradient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Jin-Min Liang , Shi-Jie Wei , Shao-Ming Fei

Geometry optimization is an important task in quantum chemical calculations to analyze the characteristics of molecules. A top concern on it is a long execution time because time-consuming energy and gradient calculations are repeated…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Satoshi Imamura , Akihiko Kasagi , Eiji Yoshida

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithm combines the ability of quantum computers to efficiently compute expectation values with a classical optimization routine in order to approximate ground state energies of quantum systems.…

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE), a type of variational quantum algorithm, is a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm to find the lowest-energy eigenstate of a particular Hamiltonian. We investigate ways to optimize the VQE solving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Adam Hutchings , Eric Yarnot , Xinpeng Li , Qiang Guan , Ning Xie , Shuai Xu , Vipin Chaudhary

An essential component of many sophisticated metaheuristics for solving combinatorial optimization problems is some variation of a local search routine that iteratively searches for a better solution within a chosen set of immediate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 M. Podobrii , V. Kuzmin , V. Voloshinov , M. Veshchezerova , M. R. Perelshtein

Discovering the low-energy conformations of a molecule is of great interest to computational chemists, with applications in {\em in silico} materials design and drug discovery. In this paper, we propose a variable neighbourhood search…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-25 D. J. J. Marchand , M. Noori , A. Roberts , G. Rosenberg , B. Woods , U. Yildiz , M. Coons , D. Devore , P. Margl

We provide several quantum algorithms for continuous optimization that do not require gradient estimation. Instead, we encode the optimization problem into the dynamics of a physical system and coherently simulate the time evolution. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Ahmet Burak Catli , Sophia Simon , Nathan Wiebe

This paper discusses quantum algorithms for the generator coordinate method (GCM) that can be used to benchmark molecular systems. The GCM formalism defined by exponential operators with exponents defined through generators of the Fermionic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-14 Muqing Zheng , Bo Peng , Nathan Wiebe , Ang Li , Xiu Yang , Karol Kowalski

Molecular dynamics simulations are indispensable for exploring the behavior of atoms and molecules. Grounded in quantum mechanical principles, quantum molecular dynamics provides high predictive power but its computational cost is dominated…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Siu Wun Cheung , Youngsoo Choi , Jean-Luc Fattebert , Daniel Osei-Kuffuor

We propose a novel quantum neural network architecture for unsupervised learning of classical and quantum data based on the kernelized version of Kohonen's self-organizing map. The central idea behind our algorithm is to replace the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-07 Amol Deshmukh

This thesis investigates geometric approaches to quantum hydrodynamics (QHD) in order to develop applications in theoretical quantum chemistry. Based upon the momentum map geometric structure of QHD and the associated Lie-Poisson and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Michael S. Foskett

Adaptive quantum design identifies the best broken-symmetry configurations of atoms and molecules that enable a desired target function response. In this work, numerical optimization is used to design atomic clusters with specified…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Jason Thalken , Yu Chen , A. F. J. Levi , Stephan Haas

We design two variational algorithms to optimize specific 2-local Hamiltonians defined on graphs. Our algorithms are inspired by the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm. We develop formulae to analyze the energy achieved by these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-20 Kunal Marwaha , Adrian She , James Sud