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Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) have emerged as a leading paradigm in near-term quantum computing, yet their performance can be hindered by the so-called barren plateau problem, where gradients vanish exponentially with system size or…

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We employ quantum variational methods to investigate a single-site interacting fermion-boson system -- an example of a minimal supersymmetric model that can exhibit spontaneous supersymmetry breaking. Our study addresses the challenges…

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In this study, we explore the universality of Selective Number-dependent Arbitrary Phase (SNAP) and Displacement gates for quantum control in qudit-based systems. However, optimizing the parameters of these gates poses a challenging task.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Oluwadara Ogunkoya , Kirsten Morris , Doga Murat Kürkçüoglu

Universal fault-tolerant quantum computers will require error-free execution of long sequences of quantum gate operations, which is expected to involve millions of physical qubits. Before the full power of such machines will be available,…

In the era of noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computing, Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs) have emerged as a promising approach for various applications, yet their training is often hindered by barren plateaus (BPs), where gradient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Jun Zhuang , Chaowen Guan

Computational methods are the most effective tools we have besides scientific experiments to explore the properties of complex biological systems. Progress is slowing because digital silicon computers have reached their limits in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-03 Viv Kendon

Quantum Boltzmann machines (QBMs) are generative models with potential advantages in quantum machine learning, yet their training is fundamentally limited by the barren plateau problem, where gradients vanish exponentially with system size.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Takeshi Kimura , Kohtaro Kato , Masahito Hayashi

The barren plateau phenomenon, in which cost-function gradients of variational quantum algorithms vanish exponentially, remains a central obstacle for near-term quantum computing. Existing analyses typically depend on t-design or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Tomohiro Nishiyama , Yoshihiko Hasegawa

Instantaneous quantum polynomial quantum circuit Born machines (IQP-QCBMs) have been proposed as quantum generative models with a classically tractable training objective based on the maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) and a potential quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Kevin Shen , Susanne Pielawa , Vedran Dunjko , Hao Wang

Following the B. Hiley belief that unresolved problems of conventional quantum mechanics could be the result of a wrong mathematical structure, an alternative basic structure is suggested. Critical part of the structure is modification of…

General Physics · Physics 2017-03-03 Alexander Soiguine

Parameterized quantum circuits used as variational ans\"atze are emerging as promising tools to tackle complex problems ranging from quantum chemistry to combinatorial optimization. These variational quantum circuits can suffer from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-14 Valentin Heyraud , Zejian Li , Kaelan Donatella , Alexandre Le Boité , Cristiano Ciuti

In this paper, we propose a framework to study the combined effect of several factors that contribute to the barren plateau problem in quantum neural networks (QNNs), which is a critical challenge in quantum machine learning (QML). These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Muhammad Kashif , Saif Al-Kuwari

Random quantum circuits have been utilized in the contexts of quantum supremacy demonstrations, variational quantum algorithms for chemistry and machine learning, and blackhole information. The ability of random circuits to approximate any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-23 Minzhao Liu , Junyu Liu , Yuri Alexeev , Liang Jiang

Barren plateaus present a major challenge in the training of variational quantum algorithms (VQAs), particularly for large-scale discretizations of nonlinear partial differential equations. In this work, we introduce a domain decomposition…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Laila S. Busaleh , Jeonghyeuk Kwon , Orlane Zang , Muhammad Hassan , Yvon Maday

Variational quantum algorithms are of special importance in the research on quantum computing applications because of their applicability to current Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices. The main building blocks of these…

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) represent a promising approach to utilizing current quantum computing infrastructures. VQAs are based on a parameterized quantum circuit optimized in a closed loop via a classical algorithm. This hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 David Fitzek , Robert S. Jonsson , Werner Dobrautz , Christian Schäfer

The entanglement-induced barren plateau is an exponential vanishing of the parameter gradients with system size that limits the practical application of variational quantum algorithms(VQA). A landscape transition from barren plateau to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Gaurav Gyawali , Sonny Rappaport , Tiago Sereno , Michael J. Lawler

With an ever-expanding ecosystem of noisy and intermediate-scale quantum devices, exploring their possible applications is a rapidly growing field of quantum information science. In this work, we demonstrate that variational quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-16 Johannes Jakob Meyer , Johannes Borregaard , Jens Eisert

Quantum computing provides a powerful framework for tackling computational problems that are classically intractable. The goal of this paper is to explore the use of quantum computers for solving relevant problems in systems and control…

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