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We study an adiabatic variant of the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) in which VQE is performed iteratively for a sequence of Hamiltonians along an adiabatic path. We derive the conditions under which gradient-based optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Bojan Žunkovič , Marco Ballarin , Lewis Wright , Michael Lubasch

Finding solutions to systems of linear equations is a common prob\-lem in many areas of science and engineering, with much potential for a speedup on quantum devices. While the Harrow-Hassidim-Lloyd (HHL) quantum algorithm yields up to an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-20 Aidan Pellow-Jarman , Ilya Sinayskiy , Anban Pillay , Francesco Petruccione

Variational wavefunction ans\"{a}tze are at the heart of solving quantum many-body problems in physics and chemistry. Previous designs of hardware-efficient ansatz (HEA) on quantum computers are largely based on heuristics and lack rigorous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-22 Xiaoxiao Xiao , Hewang Zhao , Jiajun Ren , Wei-hai Fang , Zhendong Li

Combinatorial optimization on near-term quantum devices is a promising path to demonstrating quantum advantage. However, the capabilities of these devices are constrained by high noise or error rates. In this paper, we propose an iterative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-12 Xiaoyuan Liu , Anthony Angone , Ruslan Shaydulin , Ilya Safro , Yuri Alexeev , Lukasz Cincio

Observing rapid developments of both the number of qubits and quantum volume, especially with recent advances in ion-trap quantum computers, it is no doubt that Fault-Tolerant-Quantum-Computer (FTQC) will be realized in the near future.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-18 Hikaru Wakaura , Andriyan Bayu Suksmono

Variational quantum algorithms are among the most promising approaches for simulating interacting quantum many-body systems on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. However, the practical success of variational quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Rudraksh Sharma

In order to answer the problem of Quantum Phase Estimation Algorithm been not suitable for NISQ devices, and allows one to outperform classical computers, Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) were designed. Our subject of interest is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-28 Max Alteg , Baptiste Chevalier , Octave Mestoudjian , Johan-Luca Rossi

Quantum computers promise scalable treatments of electronic structure, yet applying variational quantum eigensolvers (VQE) on realistic drug-like molecules remains constrained by the performance limitations of near-term quantum hardwares. A…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Zhi Yin , Xiaoran Li , Zhupeng Han , Shengyu Zhang , Xin Li , Zhihong Zhang , Runqing Zhang , Anbang Wang , Xiaojin Zhang

While variational quantum algorithms are among the most promising approaches for the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era, their scalability is often hindered by the barren plateau problem. Among the proposals that have demonstrated…

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is a promising hybrid algorithm, utilizing both quantum and classical computers to obtain the ground state energy of molecules. In this context, this study applies VQE to investigate the ground…

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

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

Quantum enhanced optimization of classical cost functions is a central theme of quantum computing due to its high potential value in science and technology. The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) and the quantum approximate optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 Giuseppe Scriva , Nikita Astrakhantsev , Sebastiano Pilati , Guglielmo Mazzola

Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) have emerged as promising methods for tackling complex problems on near-term quantum devices. Among these algorithms, the Variational Quantum Linear Solver (VQLS) addresses linear systems of the form…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Gloria Turati , Alessia Marruzzo , Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema , Paolo Cremonesi

Quantum computing is an advanced area of computing that leverages the principles of quantum mechanics. Quantum computing holds the potential to revolutionize various fields by handling problems that are currently intractable for classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Xiaoan Lin

Hybrid quantum-classical algorithms have been proposed as a potentially viable application of quantum computers. A particular example - the variational quantum eigensolver, or VQE - is designed to determine a global minimum in an energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Alexey Uvarov , Jacob Biamonte , Dmitry Yudin

Development of resource-friendly quantum algorithms remains highly desirable for noisy intermediate-scale quantum computing. Based on the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) with unitary coupled cluster ansatz, we demonstrate that…

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) have established themselves as a central computational paradigm in the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era. By coupling parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) with classical optimization, they…

We present a scalable, hardware-aware methodology for extending the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) to large, realistic Dynamic Portfolio Optimization (DPO) problems. Building on the scaling strategy from our previous work, where we…

As the advances in quantum hardware bring us into the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era, one possible task we can perform without quantum error correction using NISQ machines is the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) due to its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Zhenyu Cai