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Quantum mechanics is well known to accelerate statistical sampling processes over classical techniques. In quantitative finance, statistical samplings arise broadly in many use cases. Here we focus on a particular one of such use cases,…

In this paper, we introduce a quantum-enhanced algorithm for simulation-based optimization. Simulation-based optimization seeks to optimize an objective function that is computationally expensive to evaluate exactly, and thus, is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-08 Julien Gacon , Christa Zoufal , Stefan Woerner

Quantum amplitude estimation is one of the core subroutines in quantum algorithms. This paper gives a parallelized amplitude estimation (PAE) algorithm that simultaneously achieves near-Heisenberg scaling in the total number of queries and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Kohei Oshio , Kaito Wada , Naoki Yamamoto

We present a methodology to price options and portfolios of options on a gate-based quantum computer using amplitude estimation, an algorithm which provides a quadratic speedup compared to classical Monte Carlo methods. The options that we…

Variational quantum metrology represents a powerful tool for optimizing generic estimation strategies, combining the principles of variational optimization with the techniques of quantum metrology. Such optimization procedures result…

Quantum Amplitude Estimation (QAE) is a key primitive in quantum computing, but its standard implementation using Quantum Phase Estimation is resource-intensive, requiring a large number of coherent qubits in a single circuit block to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Alok Shukla , Prakash Vedula

Variational quantum algorithms are poised to have significant impact on high-dimensional optimization, with applications in classical combinatorics, quantum chemistry, and condensed matter. Nevertheless, the optimization landscape of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Taylor L. Patti , Omar Shehab , Khadijeh Najafi , Susanne F. Yelin

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.…

Current quantum simulators suffer from multiple limitations such as short coherence time, noisy operations, faulty readout and restricted qubit connectivity in some platforms. Variational quantum algorithms are the most promising approach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Chufan Lyu , Xiaoyu Tang , Junning Li , Xusheng Xu , Man-Hong Yung , Abolfazl Bayat

Variational algorithms for strongly correlated chemical and materials systems are one of the most promising applications of near-term quantum computers. We present an extension to the variational quantum eigensolver that approximates the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 William J. Huggins , Joonho Lee , Unpil Baek , Bryan O'Gorman , K. Birgitta Whaley

Monte Carlo sampling is a powerful toolbox of algorithmic techniques widely used for a number of applications wherein some noisy quantity, or summary statistic thereof, is sought to be estimated. In this paper, we survey the literature for…

We introduce the Real Quantum Amplitude Estimation (RQAE) algorithm, an extension of Quantum Amplitude Estimation (QAE) which is sensitive to the sign of the amplitude. RQAE is an iterative algorithm which offers explicit control over the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-26 Alberto Manzano , Daniele Musso , Álvaro Leitao

Classical Monte Carlo algorithms can theoretically be sped up on a quantum computer by employing amplitude estimation (AE). To realize this, an efficient implementation of state-dependent functions is crucial. We develop a straightforward…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Mark-Oliver Wolf , Tom Ewen , Ivica Turkalj

We propose using variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) to simulate established quantum algorithms under realistic noise conditions, aiming to surpass the fidelity of theoretical circuits in noisy environments. Focusing on the Quantum…

Despite extensive research efforts, few quantum algorithms for classical optimization demonstrate realizable quantum advantage. The utility of many quantum algorithms is limited by high requisite circuit depth and nonconvex optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-27 Taylor L. Patti , Jean Kossaifi , Anima Anandkumar , Susanne F. Yelin

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…

Neural-network quantum states (NQS) offer a powerful and expressive ansatz for representing quantum many-body wave functions. However, their training via Variational Monte Carlo (VMC) methods remains challenging. It is well known that some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Antoine Misery , Luca Gravina , Alessandro Santini , Filippo Vicentini

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is a method that uses a hybrid quantum-classical computational approach to find eigenvalues and eigenvalues of a Hamiltonian. VQE has been proposed as an alternative to fully quantum algorithms such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Dmitry A. Fedorov , Bo Peng , Niranjan Govind , Yuri Alexeev

Due to the unreliability and limited capacity of existing quantum computer prototypes, quantum circuit simulation continues to be a vital tool for validating next generation quantum computers and for studying variational quantum algorithms,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-01 Yipeng Huang , Steven Holtzen , Todd Millstein , Guy Van den Broeck , Margaret Martonosi

We propose a variational scheme to represent composite quantum systems using multiple parameterized functions of varying accuracies on both classical and quantum hardware. The approach follows the variational principle over the entire…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Stefano Barison , Filippo Vicentini , Giuseppe Carleo