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Accurately describing strongly correlated systems with affordable quantum resources remains a central challenge for quantum chemistry applications on near and intermediate-term quantum computers. The localized active space self-consistent…

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is one the most perspective algorithms for simulation of quantum many body physics that have recently attached a lot of attention and believed would be practical for implementation on the near term…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-03 Belozerova Polina , Shangareev Arthur , Zotov Yuriy , Yung Manhong , lv Dingshun

A widely used strategy to reduce the computational cost in quantum-chemical calculations is to partition the system into an active subsystem, which is the focus of the computational efforts and an environment that is treated at a lower…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-06-19 Elena Kolodzeiski , Christopher J. Stein

We propose an autonomous quantum error correction scheme using squeezed cat (SC) code against the dominant error source, excitation loss, in continuous-variable systems. Through reservoir engineering, we show that a structured dissipation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Qian Xu , Guo Zheng , Yu-Xin Wang , Peter Zoller , Aashish A. Clerk , Liang Jiang

Adaptive variational quantum eigensolvers (ADAPT-VQEs) are promising candidates for simulations of strongly correlated systems on near-term quantum hardware. To further improve the noise resilience of these algorithms, recent efforts have…

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is currently the flagship algorithm for solving electronic structure problems on near-term quantum computers. This hybrid quantum/classical algorithm involves implementing a sequence of…

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) algorithm has been developed to target near term Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers as a method to find the eigenvalues of Hamiltonians. Unlike fully quantum algorithms such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Taylor Harville , Rishu Khurana , Vitor F. Grizzi , Cong Liu

Variational quantum eigensolvers are touted as a near-term algorithm capable of impacting many applications. However, the potential has not yet been realized, with few claims of quantum advantage and high resource estimates, especially due…

We present the One-orbital Ensemble Self-Consistent Field (OE-SCF) method, an {alternative} orbital-free DFT solver that extends the applicability of DFT to system sizes beyond the nanoscale while retaining the accuracy required to be…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-05 Xuecheng Shao , Wenhui Mi , Michele Pavanello

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE), a type of variational quantum algorithm, is a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm to find the lowest-energy eigenstate of a particular Hamiltonian. We investigate ways to optimize the VQE solving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Adam Hutchings , Eric Yarnot , Xinpeng Li , Qiang Guan , Ning Xie , Shuai Xu , Vipin Chaudhary

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 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

Variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is an efficient computational method promising chemical accuracy in electronic structure calculations on a universal-gate quantum computer. However, such a simple task as computing the electronic energy…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-06-04 Ilya G. Ryabinkin , Scott N. Genin , Artur F. Izmaylov

Variational hybrid quantum-classical algorithms are powerful tools to maximize the use of Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum devices. While past studies have developed powerful and expressive ansatze, their near-term applications have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Sukin Sim , Jonathan Romero , Jerome F. Gonthier , Alexander A. Kunitsa

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is one of the most promising algorithms for low-lying eigenstates calculation on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers. Specifically, VQE has achieved great success for ground state…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Hengzhun Chen , Yingzhou Li , Bichen Lu , Jianfeng Lu

Measurement-based quantum computing (MBQC) is a promising approach to reducing circuit depth in noisy intermediate-scale quantum algorithms such as the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE). Unlike gate-based computing, MBQC employs local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-21 Anna Schroeder , Matthias Heller , Mariami Gachechiladze

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 I-Chi Chen , Nouhaila Innan , Suman Kumar Roy , Jason Saroni

Among variational quantum algorithms designed for NISQ devices, ADAPT-VQE stands out for its robustness against barren plateaus, particularly in estimating molecular ground states. On the other hand, counterdiabatic algorithms have shown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Diego Tancara , Herbert Díaz-Moraga , Dardo Goyeneche

In this work, we propose and analyze optimization strategies for the VQE algorithm that combine various methods, including molecular point group symmetries (symmetry adaptation), compact excitation circuits (qubit-excitation-based),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Konstantin M. Makushin , Aleksey K. Fedorov