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An explicit algorithm for calculating the optimized Euler angles for both qubit state transfer and gate engineering given two arbitary fixed Hamiltonians is presented. It is shown how the algorithm enables us to efficiently implement single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-03 K. Ch. Chatzisavvas , G. Chadzitaskos , C. Daskaloyannis , S. G. Schirmer

Adaptive variational algorithms suffer from prohibitively high measurement costs during the generator selection step, since energy gradients must be estimated for a large operator pool. This scaling bottleneck limits their applicability to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Rick Huang , Artur F. Izmaylov

Fundamental matrix operations and solving linear systems of equations are ubiquitous in scientific investigations. Using the "Sender-Receiver" model, we propose quantum algorithms for matrix operations such as matrix-vector product,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-11 Wentao Qi , Alexandr I. Zenchuk , Asutosh Kumar , Junde Wu

The quantum mechanical expression relating two commuting operators is reformulated such that the power method (also called method of moments) for iteratively calculating eigenvalues and eigenvectors becomes applicable. The new iterative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-22 Wolfgang A. Berger

Quantum algorithms are still challenging to solve linear systems of equations on real devices. This challenge arises from the need for deep circuits and numerous ancilla qubits. We introduce the quantum conjugate gradient (QCG) method using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Kiichiro Toyoizumi , Kaito Wada , Naoki Yamamoto , Kazuo Hoshino

Quantum variational circuits have gained significant attention due to their applications in the quantum approximate optimization algorithm and quantum machine learning research. This work introduces a novel class of classical probabilistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Gal Weitz , Lirandë Pira , Chris Ferrie , Joshua Combes

This paper presents methodological improvements to variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) for solving multicriteria optimization problems. We introduce two key contributions. First, we reformulate the parameter optimization task of VQAs as a…

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is one of the most appealing quantum algorithms to simulate electronic structure properties of molecules on near-term noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices. In this work, we generalize the VQE…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-09 Jie Liu , Lingyun Wan , Zhenyu Li , Jinlong Yang

Variational quantum algorithms are promising tools for near-term quantum computers as their shallow circuits are robust to experimental imperfections. Their practical applicability, however, strongly depends on how many times their circuits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-13 Barnaby van Straaten , Bálint Koczor

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

Several quantities important in condensed matter physics, quantum information, and quantum chemistry, as well as quantities required in meta-optimization of machine learning algorithms, can be expressed as gradients of implicitly defined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-28 Shahnawaz Ahmed , Nathan Killoran , Juan Felipe Carrasquilla Álvarez

We present a proof-of-principle study of variational quantum sensing for estimating a structured linear function of local phase parameters, in which each qubit in a spin-1/2 array accumulates a phase phi_i = alpha_i theta with known weights…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Priyam Srivastava , Vivek Kumar , Gurudev Dutt , Kaushik P. Seshadreesan

The role of differential equations (DEs) in science and engineering is of paramount importance, as they provide the mathematical framework for a multitude of natural phenomena. Since quantum computers promise significant advantages over…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-11 Niclas Schillo , Andreas Sturm

In this work, we introduce several technical and analytical extensions to our recent state-averaged orbital-optimized variational quantum eigensolver (SA-OO-VQE) algorithm (see Ref. [S. Yalouz et al. ,Quantum Sci. Technol. 6, 024004…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-19 Saad Yalouz , Emiel Koridon , Bruno Senjean , Benjamin Lasorne , Francesco Buda , Lucas Visscher

The simulation of quantum dynamics calls for quantum algorithms working in first quantized grid encodings. Here, we propose a variational quantum algorithm for performing quantum dynamics in first quantization. In addition to the usual…

Recently double-bracket quantum algorithms have been proposed as a way to compile circuits for approximating eigenstates. Physically, they consist of appropriately composing evolutions under an input Hamiltonian together with diagonal…

In recent years, Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) have emerged as a promising approach for solving optimization problems on quantum computers in the NISQ era. However, one limitation of VQAs is their reliance on fixed-structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Gloria Turati , Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema , Paolo Cremonesi

We show in detail how the Jordan-Wigner transformation can be used to simulate any fermionic many-body Hamiltonian on a quantum computer. We develop an algorithm based on appropriate qubit gates that takes a general fermionic Hamiltonian,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Ovrum , M. Hjorth-Jensen

Computation of observables and their gradients on near-term quantum hardware is a central aspect of any quantum algorithm. In this work, we first review standard approaches to the estimation of observables with and without quantum amplitude…

Quantum computing has been increasingly applied in nuclear physics. In this work, we combine quantum computing with the complex scaling method to address the resonance problem. Due to the non-Hermiticity introduced by complex scaling,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-09-11 Hantao Zhang , Dong Bai , Zhongzhou Ren