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Mapping out phase diagrams of quantum systems using classical simulations can be challenging or intractable due to the computational resources required to simulate even small quantum systems far away from the thermodynamic limit. We…

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Variational quantum algorithms on bosonic quantum processors are an emerging paradigm for quantum chemistry calculations, exploiting the natural alignment between molecular structure and harmonic oscillator-based hardware. We introduce the…

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The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is a key algorithm for near-term quantum computers, yet its performance is often limited by the classical optimization of circuit parameters. We propose using the velocity Verlet algorithm, inspired…

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This paper presents a hybrid quantum-classical approach to prime factorization. The proposed algorithm is based on the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE), which employs a classical optimizer to find the ground state of a given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Mona Sobhani , Yahui Chai , Tobias Hartung , Karl Jansen

It is difficult to calculate the energy levels and eigenstates of a large physical system on a classical computer because of the exponentially growing size of the Hilbert space. In this work, we experimentally demonstrate a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Zhaokai Li , Xiaomei Liu , Hefeng Wang , Sahel Ashhab , Jiangyu Cui , Hongwei Chen , Xinhua Peng , Jiangfeng Du

Quantum machine learning algorithms have emerged to be a promising alternative to their classical counterparts as they leverage the power of quantum computers. Such algorithms have been developed to solve problems like electronic structure…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-10-29 Manas Sajjan , Shree Hari Sureshbabu , Sabre Kais

Quantum phase estimation (QPE) serves as a building block of many different quantum algorithms and finds important applications in computational chemistry problems. Despite the rapid development of quantum hardware, experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 Kentaro Yamamoto , Samuel Duffield , Yuta Kikuchi , David Muñoz Ramo

We present a distributed algorithm and implementation of the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE), termed distributed VQE (DVQE). DVQE, provided as an open-source Python package, enables the execution of parameterized quantum circuits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Milad Hasanzadeh , Amin Kargarian

We explore a pulse-based variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithm for Rydberg atoms in optical tweezer arrays and evaluate its performance on prototypical quantum spin models. We numerically demonstrate that the ground states of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-28 Kazuma Nagao , Sergi Julià-Farré , Joseph Vovrosh , Alexandre Dauphin , Seiji Yunoki

The current state of quantum computing is commonly described as the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum era. Available computers contain a few dozens of qubits and can perform a few dozens of operations before the inevitable noise erases all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-25 Ijaz Ahamed Mohammad , Matej Pivoluska , Martin Plesch

The characterization of quantum phase transitions is a fundamental task for the understanding of quantum phases of matter, with a number of potential applications in quantum technologies. In this work, we use digital quantum simulation as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Alan Duriez , Andreia Saguia , Marcelo S. Sarandy

Quantum simulations of molecular systems on quantum computers often employ minimal basis sets of Gaussian orbitals. In comparison with more realistic basis sets, quantum simulations employing minimal basis sets require fewer qubits and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Stefano Barison , Davide Emilio Galli , Mario Motta

The ability to simulate a fermionic system on a quantum computer is expected to revolutionize chemical engineering, materials design, nuclear physics, to name a few. Thus, optimizing the simulation circuits is of significance in harnessing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Qingfeng Wang , Ming Li , Christopher Monroe , Yunseong Nam

The negative hydrogen ion is the first three body quantum problem whose ground state energy is calculated using the `Chandrasekhar Wavefunction' that accounts for the electron-electron correlation. Solving multi-body systems is a daunting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-31 Shubham Kumar , Rahul Pratap Singh , Bikash K. Behera , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

In the noisy-intermediate-scale-quantum era, Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is a promising method to study ground state properties in quantum chemistry, materials science, and condensed physics. However, general quantum eigensolvers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Yusen Wu , Zigeng Huang , Jinzhao Sun , Xiao Yuan , Jingbo B. Wang , Dingshun Lv

The study of spontaneous supersymmetry breaking (SSB) on the lattice is obstructed by a severe sign problem. Quantum computing provides a promising alternative approach. In particular, properties of supersymmetry relate SSB to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 John Kerfoot , David Schaich , Emanuele Mendicelli

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is an algorithm for finding the ground states of a given Hamiltonian. Its application to binary-formulated combinatorial optimization (CO) has been widely studied in recent years. However, typical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Ningyi Xie , Xinwei Lee , Tiejin Chen , Yoshiyuki Saito , Nobuyoshi Asai , Dongsheng Cai

Variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is promising to show quantum advantage on near-term noisy-intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers. One central problem of VQE is the effect of noise, especially the physical noise on realistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-30 Jinfeng Zeng , Zipeng Wu , Chenfeng Cao , Chao Zhang , Shiyao Hou , Pengxiang Xu , Bei Zeng

Quantum chemistry calculations such as the prediction of molecular properties and modeling of chemical reactions are a few of the critical areas where near-term quantum computers can showcase quantum advantage. We present a method to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Utkarsh Azad , Harjinder Singh

Current noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices remain limited in their ability to perform accurate quantum chemistry simulations due to restricted numbers of high-fidelity qubits and short coherence times. To overcome these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Yuhan Zheng , Yibin Guo , Huili Zhang , Jie Liu , Xiongzhi Zeng , Xiaoxia Cai , Zhenyu Li , Jinlong Yang