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Combinatorial optimization is a promising application for near-term quantum computers, however, identifying performant algorithms suited to noisy quantum hardware remains as an important goal to potentially realizing quantum computational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Titus D. Morris , Ananth Kaushik , Martin Roetteler , Phillip C. Lotshaw

We present a quantum algorithm for implementing $\phi^4$ lattice scalar field theory on qubit computers. The field is represented in the discretized field amplitude basis. The number of qubits and elementary gates required by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Andy C. Y. Li , Alexandru Macridin , Stephen Mrenna , Panagiotis Spentzouris

We estimate the resources required to prepare the ground state of a quantum many-body system on a quantum computer of intermediate size. This estimate is made possible using a combination of quantum many-body methods and analytic upper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Jessica Lemieux , Guillaume Duclos-Cianci , David Sénéchal , David Poulin

Variational algorithms are promising candidates to be implemented on near-term quantum computers. The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is a prominent example, where a parametrized trial state of the quantum mechanical wave function is…

Preparing the ground state of a system of interacting classical particles is an NP-hard problem. Thus, there is in general no better algorithm to solve this problem than exhaustively going through all N configurations of the system to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-22 David Poulin , Pawel Wocjan

Under suitable assumptions, the quantum phase estimation (QPE) algorithm is able to achieve Heisenberg-limited precision scaling in estimating the ground state energy. However, QPE requires a large number of ancilla qubits and large circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-04 Lin Lin , Yu Tong

State preparation is a process encoding the classical data into the quantum systems. Based on quantum phase estimation, we propose the specific quantum circuits for a deterministic state preparation algorithm and a probabilistic state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-12 Jian Zhao , Yu-Chun Wu , Guang-Can Guo , Guo-Ping Guo

We propose a novel non-Hermitian adiabatic quantum optimization algorithm. One of the new ideas is to use a non-Hermitian auxiliary "initial'' Hamiltonian that provides an effective level repulsion for the main Hamiltonian. This effect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-15 Gennady P. Berman , Alexander I. Nesterov

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

While quantum computers are capable of simulating many quantum systems efficiently, the simulation algorithms must begin with the preparation of an appropriate initial state. We present a method for generating physically relevant quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-29 Nicholas J. Ward , Ivan Kassal , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Recently, feedback-based quantum algorithms have been introduced to calculate the ground states of Hamiltonians, inspired by quantum Lyapunov control theory. This paper aims to generalize these algorithms to the problem of calculating an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Salahuddin Abdul Rahman , Özkan Karabacak , Rafal Wisniewski

Gradient descent method, as one of the major methods in numerical optimization, is the key ingredient in many machine learning algorithms. As one of the most fundamental way to solve the optimization problems, it promises the function value…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-01 Keren Li , Shijie Wei , Feihao Zhang , Pan Gao , Zengrong Zhou , Tao Xin , Xiaoting Wang , Guilu Long

We numerically investigate quantum circuit elementary-gate level instantiations of the standard Quantum Phase Estimation (QPE) algorithm for the task of computing the ground-state energy of a quantum magnet; the disordered fully-connected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Elijah Pelofske , Stephan Eidenbenz

A new method is proposed for determining the ground state wave function of a quantum many-body system on a quantum computer, without requiring an initial trial wave function that has good overlap with the true ground state. The technique of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-26 David B. Kaplan , Natalie Klco , Alessandro Roggero

The quantum phase estimation algorithm stands as the primary method for determining the ground state energy of a molecular electronic Hamiltonian on a quantum computer. In this context, the ability to initialize a classically tractable…

Quantum optimization algorithms offer a promising route to finding the ground states of target Hamiltonians on near-term quantum devices. None the less, it remains necessary to limit the evolution time and circuit depth as much as possible,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-01 Chenfeng Cao , Yunlong Yu , Zipeng Wu , Nic Shannon , Bei Zeng , Robert Joynt

Quantum machine learning has emerged as a promising utilization of near-term quantum computation devices. However, algorithmic classes such as variational quantum algorithms have been shown to suffer from barren plateaus due to vanishing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 Lukas Broers , Ludwig Mathey

We present efficient quantum algorithms for simulating time-dependent Hamiltonian evolution of general input states using an oracular model of a quantum computer. Our algorithms use either constant or adaptively chosen time steps and are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-03 Nathan Wiebe , Dominic W. Berry , Peter Hoyer , Barry C. Sanders

Designing quantum algorithms is a complex and counterintuitive task, making it an ideal candidate for AI-driven algorithm discovery. To this end, we employ the Hive, an AI platform for program synthesis, which utilises large language models…

Due to the large state space of the two-qubit system, and the adoption of ladder reward function in the existing quantum state preparation methods, the convergence speed is slow and it is difficult to prepare the desired target quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Wenjie Liu , Jing Xu , Bosi Wang