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Solving optimisation problems is a promising near-term application of quantum computers. Quantum variational algorithms leverage quantum superposition and entanglement to optimise over exponentially large solution spaces using an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-13 Edric Matwiejew , Jason Pye , Jingbo B. Wang

We study the performance and resource usage of the variational quantum factoring (VQF) algorithm for different instance sizes and optimization algorithms. Our simulations show better chance of finding the ground state when using VQE rather…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-16 Vivian Phan , Arttu Pönni , Matti Raasakka , Ilkka Tittonen

We present a deterministic optimization framework for Neural Network Quantum States (NQS) designed to bypass the sampling variance and slow mixing issues inherent in stochastic optimization. By projecting a neural backflow ansatz onto…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Zheng Che

Variational optimization of neural-network representations of quantum states has been successfully applied to solve interacting fermionic problems. Despite rapid developments, significant scalability challenges arise when considering…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-08-12 Tianchen Zhao , James Stokes , Shravan Veerapaneni

In recent years, the neural-network quantum states method has been investigated to study the ground state and the time evolution of many-body quantum systems. Here we expand on the investigation and consider a quantum quench from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 Wenxuan Zhang , Bo Xing , Xiansong Xu , Dario Poletti

Variational Quantum Algorithms have emerged as a leading paradigm for near-term quantum computation. In such algorithms, a parameterized quantum circuit is controlled via a classical optimization method that seeks to minimize a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-19 Javier Rivera-Dean , Patrick Huembeli , Antonio Acín , Joseph Bowles

Neural quantum states (NQS) have gained prominence in variational quantum Monte Carlo methods in approximating ground-state wavefunctions. Despite their success, they face limitations in optimization, scalability, and expressivity in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Zongkang Zhang , Ying Li , Xiaosi Xu

We utilize neural network quantum states (NQS) to investigate the ground state properties of the Heisenberg model on a Shastry-Sutherland lattice using the variational Monte Carlo method. We show that already relatively simple NQSs can be…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-02-07 Matěj Mezera , Jana Menšíková , Pavel Baláž , Martin Žonda

Continuous-variable (CV) quantum computing has shown great potential for building neural network models. These neural networks can have different levels of quantum-classical hybridization depending on the complexity of the problem. Previous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-08 Shikha Bangar , Leanto Sunny , Kubra Yeter-Aydeniz , George Siopsis

Variational quantum algorithms stand at the forefront of simulations on near-term and future fault-tolerant quantum devices. While most variational quantum algorithms involve only continuous optimization variables, the representational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-03 Jiahao Yao , Haoya Li , Marin Bukov , Lin Lin , Lexing Ying

Due to the strong correlations present in quantum systems, classical machine learning algorithms like stochastic gradient descent are often insufficient for the training of neural network quantum states (NQSs). These difficulties can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-23 J. Thorben Frank , Michael J. Kastoryano

Continuous-variable (CV) quantum computing offers a promising framework for scalable quantum machine learning, leveraging optical systems with infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces. While discrete-variable (DV) quantum neural networks have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Daniel Alejandro Lopez , Oscar Montiel , Oscar Castillo , Miguel Lopez-Montiel

We propose the unitary variational quantum-neural hybrid eigensolver (U-VQNHE), which improves upon the original VQNHE by enforcing unitary neural transformations. The non-unitary nature of VQNHE causes normalization issues and divergence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Minwoo Kim , Kyoung Keun Park , Uihwan Jeong , Sangyeon Lee , Taehyun Kim

We introduce a quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) for continuous optimization. The algorithm is based on the dynamics of a quantum system moving in an energy potential which encodes the objective function. By approximating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-04 Guillaume Verdon , Juan Miguel Arrazola , Kamil Brádler , Nathan Killoran

Variational approaches, such as variational Monte Carlo (VMC) or the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE), are powerful techniques to tackle the ground-state many-electron problem. Often, the family of variational states is not invariant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-10 Javier Robledo Moreno , Jeffrey Cohn , Dries Sels , Mario Motta

In this note, variational Monte Carlo method based on neural quantum states for spin systems is reviewed. Using a neural network as the wave function allows for a more generalized expression of various types of interactions, including…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-04 Yuntai Song

Noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers (NISQ computers) are now readily available, motivating many researchers to experiment with Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs). Among them, the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Camille Grange , Michael Poss , Eric Bourreau

Solving hard optimization problems is one of the most promising application domains for quantum computers due to the ubiquity of such problems in industry and the availability of broadly applicable quantum speedups. However, the ability of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Zichang He , Rudy Raymond , Ruslan Shaydulin , Marco Pistoia

Many relevant problems in industrial settings result in NP-hard optimization problems, such as the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP) or its reduced variant, the Travelling Salesperson Problem (TSP). Even with today's most powerful…

Applying near-term variational quantum algorithms to the problem of dynamic satellite network routing represents a promising direction for quantum computing. In this work, we provide a critical evaluation of two major approaches: static…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-07 Phuc Hao Do , Tran Duc Le