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A key goal of digital quantum computing is the simulation of fermionic systems such as molecules or the Hubbard model. Unfortunately, for present and near-future quantum computers the use of quantum error correction schemes is still out of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 Jan-Michael Reiner , Frank Wilhelm-Mauch , Gerd Schön , Michael Marthaler

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

Barren plateau landscapes correspond to gradients that vanish exponentially in the number of qubits. Such landscapes have been demonstrated for variational quantum algorithms and quantum neural networks with either deep circuits or global…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-06 Andrew Arrasmith , M. Cerezo , Piotr Czarnik , Lukasz Cincio , Patrick J. Coles

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) are among the most promising algorithms to achieve quantum advantages in the NISQ era. One important challenge in implementing such algorithms is to construct an effective parameterized quantum circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-26 Shikun Zhang , Zheng Qin , Yang Zhou , Rui Li , Chunxiao Du , Zhisong Xiao

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE), a variational algorithm to obtain an approximated ground state of a given Hamiltonian, is an appealing application of near-term quantum computers. The original work [A. Peruzzo et al.; \textit{Nat.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Ken M Nakanishi , Kosuke Mitarai , Keisuke Fujii

Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) faces significant challenges due to hardware noise and the presence of barren plateaus and local traps in the optimization landscape. To mitigate the detrimental effects of these issues, we introduce a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Chayan Patra , Rahul Maitra

Training quantum neural networks (QNNs) using gradient-based or gradient-free classical optimisation approaches is severely impacted by the presence of barren plateaus in the cost landscapes. In this paper, we devise a framework for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Yidong Liao , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Chris Ferrie

Variational quantum eigensolver (VQE), which attracts attention as a promising application of noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices, finds a ground state of a given Hamiltonian by variationally optimizing the parameters of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-12 Fumiyoshi Kobayashi , Kosuke Mitarai , Keisuke Fujii

Quantum algorithms based on the variational principle have found applications in diverse areas with a huge flexibility. But as the circuit size increases the variational landscapes become flattened, causing the so-called Barren plateau…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Fabio Tarocco , Davide Materia , Leonardo Ratini , Leonardo Guidoni

The aircraft loading optimization problem is a computationally hard problem with the best known classical algorithm scaling exponentially with the number of objects. We propose a quantum approach based on a multi-angle variant of the QAOA…

Variational quantum eigensolver(VQE) typically minimizes energy with hybrid quantum-classical optimization, which aims to find the ground state. Here, we propose a VQE by minimizing energy variance, which is called as variance-VQE(VVQE).…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-30 Dan-Bo Zhang , Zhan-Hao Yuan , Tao Yin

For a large number of tasks, quantum computing demonstrates the potential for exponential acceleration over classical computing. In the NISQ era, variable-component subcircuits enable applications of quantum computing. To reduce the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-12 Junhan Qin

Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is widely used in near-term hardware. However, their performances remain limited by the poor trainability and are dependent on random parameter initialization. In this work, we propose a warm start…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Yahui Chai , Karl Jansen , Stefan Kühn , Tim Schwägerl , Tobias Stollenwerk

Solving linear systems of equations is essential for many problems in science and technology, including problems in machine learning. Existing quantum algorithms have demonstrated the potential for large speedups, but the required quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-17 Hsin-Yuan Huang , Kishor Bharti , Patrick Rebentrost

Barren plateaus (BP), characterized by exponentially vanishing gradients that hinder the training of variational quantum circuits (VQC), present a pervasive and critical challenge in applying variational quantum algorithms to real-world…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-24 Yipei Liu , Yuhong Song , Jinyang Li , Qiang Guan , Cheng-chang Lu , Youzuo Lin , Weiwen Jiang

Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs), such as the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) and the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA), are widely studied as candidates for near-term quantum advantage. Recent work has shown that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Georgios Korpas , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Jakub Mareček

The barren plateau phenomenon, where the gradients of parametrized quantum circuits become vanishingly small, poses a significant challenge in quantum machine learning. While previous studies attempted to explain the barren plateau…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Yuhan Yao , Yoshihiko Hasegawa

We compare the performance of different methodologies for finding the ground state of the molecule BeH2. We implement adaptive, tetris-adaptive variational quantum eigensolver (VQE), and entanglement forging to reduce computational resource…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-24 Tushar Pandey , Jason Saroni , Abdullah Kazi , Kartik Sharma

The problem of finding the ground state energy of a Hamiltonian using a quantum computer is currently solved using either the quantum phase estimation (QPE) or variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithms. For precision $\epsilon$, QPE…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-16 Daochen Wang , Oscar Higgott , Stephen Brierley

In this work, we design a variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) suitable for investigating ground states and static string breaking in a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ lattice gauge theory (LGT). We consider a two-leg ladder lattice coupled to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 Fariha Azad , Matteo Inajetovic , Stefan Kühn , Anna Pappa