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To understand the properties and interactions of materials, and determining the ground state energies is one of the important challenges in quantum chemistry, materials science, and quantum mechanics, where quantum computing can play an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Badie Ghavami , Forouzan Mirmasoudi

Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) provide a promising framework for tackling complex optimization problems on near-term quantum hardware. Here, we demonstrate that hybrid qubit--qumode quantum devices offer an efficient route to solving…

In this work we present an experimental demonstration of the Contextual Subspace Variational Quantum Eigensolver on superconducting quantum hardware. In particular, we compute the potential energy curve for molecular nitrogen, where a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-13 Tim Weaving , Alexis Ralli , Peter J. Love , Sauro Succi , Peter V. Coveney

This paper explores the potential contribution of quantum computing, specifically the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE), into atmospheric physics research and application problems using as an example the Lorenz system, a paradigm of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-09 V. Armaos , Athanassios A. Argiriou , Ioannis Kioutsioukis

Variational quantum algorithms are promising applications of noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers. These algorithms consist of a number of separate prepare-and-measure experiments that estimate terms in a Hamiltonian. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-25 Andrew Zhao , Andrew Tranter , William M. Kirby , Shu Fay Ung , Akimasa Miyake , Peter Love

In this work, we combine the recently developed double unitary coupled cluster (DUCC) theory with the adaptive, problem-tailored variational quantum eigensolver (ADAPT-VQE) to explore accuracy of unitary downfolded Hamiltonians for quantum…

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…

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

The still-maturing noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) technology faces strict limitations on the algorithms that can be implemented efficiently. In quantum chemistry, the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithm has become…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-29 Daniel Claudino , Bo Peng , Nicholas P. Bauman , Karol Kowalski , Travis S. Humble

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) provide a promising approach to achieving quantum advantage for practical problems on near-term noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. Thus far, most studies on VQAs have focused on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-06 Yutaro Enomoto , Keitaro Anai , Kenta Udagawa , Shuntaro Takeda

Variational quantum eigensolvers (VQEs) are successful algorithms for studying physical systems on quantum computers. Recently, they were extended to the measurement-based model of quantum computing, bringing resource graph states and their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-27 Albie Chan , Zheng Shi , Luca Dellantonio , Wolfgang Dür , Christine A. Muschik

We present a quantum information-inspired ansatz for the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) and demonstrate its efficacy in calculating ground-state energies of atomic systems. Instead of adopting a heuristic approach, we start with an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Abdul Kalam , Prasenjit Deb , Akitada Sakurai , B. K. Sahoo , V. S. Prasannaa , B. P. Das

The Adaptive Derivative-Assembled Pseudo-Trotter Variational Quantum Eigensolver (ADAPT-VQE) has emerged as a pivotal promising approach for electronic structure challenges in quantum chemistry with noisy quantum devices. Nevertheless, to…

The adaptive derivative-assembled pseudo-trotter variational quantum eigensolver (ADAPT-VQE) is a promising hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for molecular ground state energy calculation, yet its practical scalability is hampered by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Runhong He , Xin Hong , Qiaozhen Chai , Ji Guan , Junyuan Zhou , Arapat Ablimit , Guolong Cui , Shenggang Ying

We introduce the Qumode Subspace Variational Quantum Eigensolver (QSS-VQE), a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for computing molecular excited states using the Fock basis of bosonic qumodes in circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED)…

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is one of the most promising algorithms for current quantum devices. It employs a classical optimizer to iteratively update the parameters of a variational quantum circuit in order to search for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Chenyu Shi , Hao Wang

Quantum chemistry is envisioned as an early and disruptive application for quantum computers. Yet, closer scrutiny of the proposed algorithms shows that there are considerable difficulties along the way. Here, we propose two criteria for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Thibaud Louvet , Thomas Ayral , Xavier Waintal

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

We develop an extension of the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithm - multistate, contracted VQE (MC-VQE) - that allows for the efficient computation of the transition energies between the ground state and several low-lying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Robert M. Parrish , Edward G. Hohenstein , Peter L. McMahon , Todd J. Martinez

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is an algorithm to compute ground and excited state energy of quantum many-body systems. A key component of the algorithm and an active research area is the construction of a parametrized trial…