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Quantum Energy Teleportation (QET) constitutes a paradigm-shifting protocol that permits the activation of local vacuum energy through the consumption of pre-existing entanglement and classical communication. Nevertheless, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 M. Y. Abd-Rabbou , Irfan Siddique , Saeed Haddadi , Cong-Feng Qiao

We present a variational quantum thermalizer (VQT), called quantum-VQT (qVQT), which extends the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) to finite temperatures. The qVQT makes use of an intermediate measurement between two variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 Johannes Selisko , Maximilian Amsler , Thomas Hammerschmidt , Ralf Drautz , Thomas Eckl

With the exponentially faster computation for certain problems, quantum computing has garnered significant attention in recent years. Variational quantum algorithms are crucial methods to implement quantum computing, and an appropriate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Fei Zhang , Jie Li , Zhimin He , Haozhen Situ

Near-term quantum computers will be limited in the number of qubits on which they can process information as well as the depth of the circuits that they can coherently carry out. To-date, experimental demonstrations of algorithms such as…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 Joel Bierman , Yingzhou Li , Jianfeng Lu

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for quantum simulation that can be run on near-term quantum hardware. A challenge in VQE -- as well as any other heuristic algorithm for finding ground states…

Entanglement lies at the core of quantum algorithms designed to solve problems that are intractable by classical approaches. One such algorithm, quantum annealing (QA), provides a promising path to a practical quantum processor. We have…

Quantum chemistry and materials is one of the most promising applications of quantum computing. Yet much work is still to be done in matching industry-relevant problems in these areas with quantum algorithms that can solve them. Most…

The scaling of the entanglement entropy at a quantum critical point allows us to extract universal properties of the state, e.g., the central charge of a conformal field theory. With the rapid improvement of noisy intermediate-scale quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-08-24 Bernhard Jobst , Adam Smith , Frank Pollmann

This study presents a simulated quantum computing approach for the investigation into the shell-model energy levels of $^{58}$Ni through the application of the variational eigensolver (VQE) method in combination with a problem-specific…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-03-04 Bharti Bhoy , Paul Stevenson

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) represent a promising pathway toward achieving practical quantum advantage on near-term hardware. Despite this promise, for generic, expressive ans\"atze, their scalability is critically hindered by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Chenfeng Cao , Yeqing Zhou , Swamit Tannu , Nic Shannon , Robert Joynt

Calculating the ground state properties of a Hamiltonian can be mapped to the problem of finding the ground state of a smaller Hamiltonian through the use of embedding methods. These embedding techniques have the ability to drastically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Lana Mineh , Ashley Montanaro

The use of a single-qubit parametrized circuit as an Ansatz for the variational wave function in the calculation of the ground state energy of a quantum many-body system is demonstrated using the one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-14 R. M. Woloshyn

A family of Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) methods is designed to maximize the resource of existing noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. However, VQE approaches encounter various difficulties in simulating molecules of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-08-16 M. D. Sapova , A. K. Fedorov

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is a promising algorithm to compute eigenstates and eigenenergies of a given quantum system that can be performed on a near-term quantum computer. Obtaining eigenstates and eigenenergies in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Kohdai Kuroiwa , Yuya O. Nakagawa

Quantum spin systems may offer the first opportunities for beyond-classical quantum computations of scientific interest. While general quantum simulation algorithms likely require error-corrected qubits, there may be applications of…

We introduce a method for analyzing ground state properties of quantum many body systems, based on the characterization of separability and entanglement by single subsystem unitary operations. We apply the method to the study of the ground…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-01-19 S. M. Giampaolo , F. Illuminati , P. Verrucchi , S. De Siena

In conventional variational quantum eigensolvers (VQEs), trial states are prepared by applying series of parameterized gates to a reference state, with the gate parameters being varied to minimize the energy of the target system.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-17 Kyle M Sherbert , Hisham Amer , Sophia E Economou , Edwin Barnes , Nicholas J Mayhall

We present and benchmark a type of variational quantum eigensolver (VQE), which we denote $\sigma$-VQE. It is designed to target mid-spectrum eigenstates and prepare quantum many-body scar states. The approach leverages the fact that noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Eoin Carolan , Nathan Keenan , Gabriele Cenedese , Giuliano Benenti

Approximating the ground states of strongly interacting electron systems in quantum chemistry and condensed matter physics is expected to be one of the earliest applications of quantum computers. In this paper, we prepare highly accurate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Gaurav Gyawali , Michael J. Lawler

Electronic ground states are of central importance in chemical simulations, but have remained beyond the reach of efficient classical algorithms except in cases of weak electron correlation or one-dimensional spatial geometry. We introduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Oskar Leimkuhler , K. Birgitta Whaley