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Quantum chemistry applications on quantum computers currently rely heavily on the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithm. This hybrid quantum-classical algorithm aims at finding ground state solutions of molecular systems based on…

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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…

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Electron-molecule collisions play a central role in both natural processes and modern technological applications, particularly in plasma processing. Conventional computational strategies such as the R-matrix method have been widely adopted…

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Within the evolving domain of quantum computational chemistry, the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) has been developed to explore not only the ground state but also the excited states of molecules. In this study, we compare the…

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We present a new hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for optimizing unitary coupled-cluster (UCC) wave functions deemed the projective quantum eigensolver (PQE), amenable to near-term noisy quantum hardware. Contrary to variational quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-10 Nicholas H. Stair , Francesco A. Evangelista

Quantum mechanics has introduced a new theoretical framework for the study of molecules, enabling the prediction of properties and dynamics through the solution of the Schr\"odinger equation applied to these systems. However, solving this…

Quantum-classical hybrid algorithms are emerging as promising candidates for near-term practical applications of quantum information processors in a wide variety of fields ranging from chemistry to physics and materials science. We report…

Quantum computing is viewed as a promising technology because of its potential for polynomial growth in complexity, in contrast to the exponential growth observed in its classical counterparts. In the current Noisy Intermediate-Scale…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Maitreyee Sarkar , Lisa Roy , Akash Gutal , Atul Kumar , Manikandan Paranjothy

The electronic structure problem is one of the main problems in modern theoretical chemistry. While there are many already-established methods both for the problem itself and its applications like semi-classical or quantum dynamics, it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 Martin Beseda , Silvie Illésová , Saad Yalouz , Bruno Senjean

Quantum chemical calculations have attracted much attention as a practical application of quantum computing. Quantum computers can prepare superpositions of electronic states with various numbers of electrons on qubits. This special feature…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Soichi Shirai , Takahiro Horiba , Hirotoshi Hirai

In the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era, solving the electronic structure problem from chemistry is considered as the "killer application" for near-term quantum devices. In spite of the success of variational hybrid…

We present the meta-VQE, an algorithm capable to learn the ground state energy profile of a parametrized Hamiltonian. By training the meta-VQE with a few data points, it delivers an initial circuit parametrization that can be used to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-01 Alba Cervera-Lierta , Jakob S. Kottmann , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Current implementations of the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) technique for solving the electronic structure problem involve splitting the system qubit Hamiltonian into parts whose elements commute within their single qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-08 Artur F. Izmaylov , Tzu-Ching Yen , Ilya G. Ryabinkin

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is one of the most promising and widely used algorithms for exploiting the capabilities of current Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices. However, VQE algorithms suffer from a plethora of…

Reducing circuit depth is essential for implementing quantum simulations of electronic structure on near-term quantum devices. In this work, we propose a variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) based perturbation theory algorithm to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Jie Liu , Zhenyu Li , Jinlong Yang

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

We propose an extension of the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) that leads to more accurate energy estimations and can be used to study excited states. The method is based on the introduction of a sequence of increasing penalties in…

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Quantum chemistry is one of the most promising near-term applications of quantum computers. Quantum algorithms such as variational quantum eigen solver (VQE) and variational quantum deflation (VQD) algorithms have been mainly applied for…

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