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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

By exploiting the invariance of the molecular Hamiltonian by a unitary transformation of the orbitals it is possible to significantly shorter the depth of the variational circuit in the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) algorithm by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Leonardo Ratini , Chiara Capecci , Leonardo Guidoni

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

Dynamical Mean Field Theory (DMFT) is one of the powerful computational approaches to study electron correlation effects in solid-state materials and molecules. Its practical applicability is, however, limited by the quantity of numerical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-23 Jannis Ehrlich , Daniel Urban , Christian Elsässer

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

The still-maturing noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) technology faces strict limitations on the algorithms that can be implemented efficiently. In quantum chemistry, the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithm has become…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-29 Daniel Claudino , Bo Peng , Nicholas P. Bauman , Karol Kowalski , Travis S. Humble

Quantum computing offers a promising paradigm for electromagnetic eigenmode analysis, enabling compact representations of complex field interactions and potential exponential speedup over classical numerical solvers. Recent efforts have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Zhixiu Han , Fanxu Meng , Weidong Li , Xutao Yu , Zaichen Zhang

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Rodolfo Carobene , Stefano Barison , Andrea Giachero

We propose a divide-and-conquer method for the quantum-classical hybrid algorithm to solve larger problems with small-scale quantum computers. Specifically, we concatenate a variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) with a reduction in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Keisuke Fujii , Kaoru Mizuta , Hiroshi Ueda , Kosuke Mitarai , Wataru Mizukami , Yuya O. Nakagawa

Quantum chemistry simulations offer a cost-effective way for computational design of BODIPY photosensitizers with potential use in photodynamic therapy (PDT). However, accurate predictions of photophysical properties, such as excitation…

The emerging field of quantum simulation of many-body systems is widely recognized as a very important application of quantum computing. A crucial step towards its realization in the context of many-electron systems requires a rigorous…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-08-23 Sumeet , V. S. Prasannaa , B. P. Das , B. K. Sahoo

Approximating the ground states of strongly interacting electron systems in quantum chemistry and condensed matter physics is expected to be one of the earliest applications of quantum computers. In this paper, we prepare highly accurate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Gaurav Gyawali , Michael J. Lawler

Variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is a hybrid quantum-classical technique that leverages noisy intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) hardware to obtain the minimum eigenvalue of a model Hamiltonian. VQE has so far been used to simulate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-18 Marwa H. Farag , Joydip Ghosh

We propose an optimization method for the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) that combines adaptive and physics-inspired ansatz design. Instead of optimizing multiple layers simultaneously, the ansatz is built incrementally from its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Cedric Gaberle , Manpreet Singh Jattana

Quantum simulation of quantum chemistry is one of the most compelling applications of quantum computing. It is of particular importance in areas ranging from materials science, biochemistry and condensed matter physics. Here, we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-25 Shijie Wei , Hang Li , GuiLu Long

Exploring the potential application of quantum computers in material design and drug discovery has attracted a lot of interest in the age of quantum computing. However, the quantum resource requirement for solving practical electronic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-01 Huan Ma , Yi Fan , Jie Liu , Honghui Shang , Zhenyu Li , Jinlong Yang

The recent developments of quantum computing present potential novel pathways for quantum chemistry, as the increased computational power of quantum computers could be harnessed to naturally encode and solve electronic structure problems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 Lila Cadi Tazi , Alex J. W. Thom

Quantum chemistry is one of the most promising applications for which quantum computing is expected to have significant impact. Despite considerable research in the field of electronic structure, calculating the vibrational properties of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Marco Majland , Patrick Ettenhuber , Nikolaj Thomas Zinner , Ove Christiansen

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for quantum simulation that can be run on near-term quantum hardware. A challenge in VQE -- as well as any other heuristic algorithm for finding ground states…

Calculating excited states in chemistry is crucial to provide insight into photoinduced molecular behavior beyond the ground state, enabling innovations in spectroscopy, material sciences, and drug design. While several approaches have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Akilan Rajamani , Martin Beseda , Benjamin Lasorne , Bruno Senjean