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We present a novel approach for efficient preparation of electronic ground states, leveraging the optimizer ExcitationSolve [J\"ager et al., Comm. Phys. (2025)] and established variational quantum eigensolver-based operator selection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Max Haas , Thierry N. Kaldenbach , Thomas Hammerschmidt , Daniel Barragan-Yani

The variational quantum eigensolver is one of the most promising approaches for performing chemistry simulations using noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) processors. The efficiency of this algorithm depends crucially on the ability to…

We introduce a framework for simulating hybrid oscillator-qubit quantum processors on qubit-only systems through position encoding. By encoding continuous-variable position and momentum wave functions into qubit amplitudes, our method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Xi Lu , Bojko N. Bakalov , Yuan Liu

Quantum parameter estimation holds significant promise for achieving high precision through the utilization of the most informative measurements. While various lower bounds have been developed to assess the best accuracy for estimates, they…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-19 Jianchao Zhang , Jun Suzuki

Variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is an appealing candidate for the application of near-term quantum computers. A technique introduced in [Higgot et al., Quantum 3, 156 (2019)], which is named variational quantum deflation (VQD), has…

While variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) have demonstrated considerable success in unconstrained optimization, their application to constrained combinatorial problems face a trade-off. Penalty-based methods, despite their circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Hui-Min Li , Yuan-Liang Han , Zhi-Xi Wang , Shao-Ming Fei

Preparing the ground state of a local Hamiltonian is a crucial problem in understanding quantum many-body systems, with applications in a variety of physics fields and connections to combinatorial optimization. While various quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Benjamin F. Schiffer , Jordi Tura

Ground-state preparation for a given Hamiltonian is a common quantum-computing task of great importance and has relevant applications in quantum chemistry, computational material modeling, and combinatorial optimization. We consider an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Yu-Qin Chen , Shi-Xin Zhang , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Shengyu Zhang

Controlled quantum mechanical devices provide a means of simulating more complex quantum systems exponentially faster than classical computers. Such "quantum simulators" rely heavily upon being able to prepare the ground state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-01 Dvir Kafri , Jacob M. Taylor

We describe a quantum algorithm for preparing states that encode solutions of non-homogeneous linear partial differential equations. The algorithm is a continuous-variable version of matrix inversion: it efficiently inverts differential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Juan Miguel Arrazola , Timjan Kalajdzievski , Christian Weedbrook , Seth Lloyd

Experimental realization of automated error correction is demonstrated through IBM Quantum Experience for Bell and GHZ states using a measurement based approach upon ancilla qubits. The measurement automatically activates error correcting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-17 Debjit Ghosh , Pratik Agarwal , Pratyush Pandey , Bikash K. Behera , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

Quantum computing has the potential to transform simulations of quantum many-body problems at the heart of electronic structure theory. Efficient quantum algorithms to compute the eigenstates of fermionic Hamiltonians, such as quantum phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Hugh G. A. Burton , Maria-Andreea Filip

Quantum imaginary time evolution (QITE) is a recently proposed quantum-classical hybrid algorithm that is guaranteed to reach the lowest state of system. In this study, we present several improvements on QITE, mainly focusing on molecular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Takashi Tsuchimochi , Yoohee Ryo , Seiichiro L. Ten-no

We propose a quantum algorithm, inspired by ADAPT-VQE, to variationally prepare the ground state of a quantum Hamiltonian, with the desirable property that if it fails to find the ground state, it still yields a physically meaningful…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Shuchen Zhu , Yu Tong

Quantum algorithm design usually assumes access to a perfect quantum computer with ideal properties like full connectivity, noise-freedom and arbitrarily long coherence time. In Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices, however, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-11 Xiangzhen Zhou , Sanjiang Li , Yuan Feng

Variational quantum circuits characterise the state of a quantum system through the use of parameters that are optimised using classical optimisation procedures that typically rely on gradient information. The circuit-execution complexity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-28 Sayantan Pramanik , Chaitanya Murti , M Girish Chandra

We investigate the quantum equation of motion (qEOM), a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for computing excitation properties of a fermionic many-body system, with a particular emphasis on the strong-coupling regime. The method is designed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-09-20 Manqoba Q. Hlatshwayo , John Novak , Elena Litvinova

Hybrid quantum-classical embedding methods for correlated materials simulations provide a path towards potential quantum advantage. However, the required quantum resources arising from the multi-band nature of $d$ and $f$ electron materials…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-09 Anirban Mukherjee , Noah F. Berthusen , João C. Getelina , Peter P. Orth , Yong-Xin Yao

Solutions to many-body problem instances often involve an intractable number of degrees of freedom and admit no known approximations in general form. In practice, representing quantum-mechanical states of a given Hamiltonian using available…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-10 Andrey Kardashin , Alexey Uvarov , Dmitry Yudin , Jacob Biamonte

Variational Quantum optimization algorithms, such as the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) or the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA), are among the most studied quantum algorithms. In our work, we evaluate and improve an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-24 David Winderl , Nicola Franco , Jeanette Miriam Lorenz