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The Schwinger model serves as a benchmark for testing non-perturbative algorithms in quantum chromodynamics (QCD), emphasizing its similarities to QCD in strong coupling regimes, primarily due to the phenomena such as confinement and charge…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-23 Xiao-Wei Li , Fei Li , Jiapei Zhuang , Man-Hong Yung

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are central to computational electromagnetics (CEM) and photonic design, but classical solvers face high costs for large or complex structures. Quantum Hamiltonian simulation provides a framework to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Hiroyuki Tezuka , Yuki Sato

We introduce a method to solve the MaxCut problem efficiently based on quantum imaginary time evolution (QITE). We employ a linear Ansatz for unitary updates and an initial state involving no entanglement, as well as an…

Efficient ground state search is fundamental to advancing combinatorial optimization problems and quantum chemistry. While the Variational Imaginary Time Evolution (VITE) method offers a useful alternative to Variational Quantum Eigensolver…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Ryo Suzuki , Shohei Watabe

Quantum Imaginary-Time Evolution (QITE) is a powerful method for preparing ground states on quantum hardware. However, executing QITE has costly measurement budgets for general Hamiltonians. Both fidelity and computational cost are strongly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Julio Del Castillo , Mats Granath , Evert van Nieuwenburg

Quantum computers have the potential to deliver speed-ups for solving certain important problems that are intractable for classical counterparts, making them a promising avenue for advancing modern computation. However, many quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Kang-Min Hu , Min Namkung , Hyang-Tag Lim

Simulating quantum imaginary-time evolution (QITE) is a major promise of quantum computation. However, the known algorithms are either probabilistic (repeat until success) with impractically small success probabilities or coherent (quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-02 Thais de Lima Silva , Márcio M. Taddei , Stefano Carrazza , Leandro Aolita

Previously proposed quantum algorithms for solving linear systems of equations cannot be implemented in the near term due to the required circuit depth. Here, we propose a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm, called Variational Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-23 Carlos Bravo-Prieto , Ryan LaRose , M. Cerezo , Yigit Subasi , Lukasz Cincio , Patrick J. Coles

In this work we present a detailed analysis of variational quantum phase estimation (VQPE), a method based on real-time evolution for ground and excited state estimation on near-term hardware. We derive the theoretical ground on which the…

We present the first quantum-hardware implementation of a Hamiltonian simulation algorithm that produces signed vector-field solutions to the time-domain Maxwells equations using a Schrodingerisation-based approach. The electromagnetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Gautam Sharma , Apurva Tiwari , Niladri Gomes , Jezer Jojo , J. Eric Bracken , Jay Pathak

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

Developing scalable quantum algorithms to study finite-temperature physics of quantum many-body systems has attracted considerable interest due to recent advancements in quantum hardware. However, such algorithms in their present form…

Quantum computers have the potential to transform the ways in which we tackle some important problems. The efforts by companies like Google, IBM and Microsoft to construct quantum computers have been making headlines for years. Equally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Raffaele Miceli , Michael McGuigan

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is a promising quantum algorithm for applications in chemistry within the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era. The ability for a quantum computer to simulate electronic structures with high…

Quantum variational algorithms (QVAs) are increasingly potent tools for simulating quantum many-body systems on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. This work examines the application of the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-28 Dhritimalya Roy , Somnath Nag

Variational quantum algorithms have shown promise in numerous fields due to their versatility in solving problems of scientific and commercial interest. However, leading algorithms for Hamiltonian simulation, such as the Variational Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-27 Arthur G. Rattew , Shaohan Hu , Marco Pistoia , Richard Chen , Steve Wood

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

Variational quantum algorithms offer a promising new paradigm for solving partial differential equations on near-term quantum computers. Here, we propose a variational quantum algorithm for solving a general evolution equation through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-28 Fong Yew Leong , Wei-Bin Ewe , Dax Enshan Koh

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…

We introduce a novel hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for the near-term computation of expectation values in quantum systems at finite temperatures. This is based on two stages: on the first one, a mixed state approximating a fiducial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-31 Giuseppe Clemente