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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

Quantum circuits have been shown to be a fertile ground for realizing long-range entangled phases of matter. While various quantum double models with non-chiral topological order have been theoretically investigated and experimentally…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-17 Zi-Yang Zhang , Donghoon Kim , Ji-Yao Chen

Current quantum simulators suffer from multiple limitations such as short coherence time, noisy operations, faulty readout and restricted qubit connectivity in some platforms. Variational quantum algorithms are the most promising approach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Chufan Lyu , Xiaoyu Tang , Junning Li , Xusheng Xu , Man-Hong Yung , Abolfazl Bayat

The number of measurements demanded by hybrid quantum-classical algorithms such as the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is prohibitively high for many problems of practical value. For such problems, realizing quantum advantage will…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Guoming Wang , Dax Enshan Koh , Peter D. Johnson , Yudong Cao

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 eigensolvers (VQEs) are among the most promising quantum algorithms for solving electronic structure problems in quantum chemistry, particularly during the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era. In this study, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Abel Carreras , David Casanova , Román Orús

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is a hybrid algorithm that has the potential to provide a quantum advantage in practical chemistry problems that are currently intractable on classical computers. VQE trains parameterized quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-10 Quoc Hoan Tran , Shinji Kikuchi , Hirotaka Oshima

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is a promising candidate for quantum applications on near-term Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers. Despite a lot of empirical studies and recent progress in theoretical understanding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-26 Xuchen You , Shouvanik Chakrabarti , Xiaodi Wu

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 an efficient circuit structure of variational quantum circuit \textit{Ans\"{a}tze} used for the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithm in calculating gapped topological phases on the currently feasible noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 Rong-Yang Sun , Tomonori Shirakawa , Seiji Yunoki

Quantum Computing is believed to be the ultimate solution for quantum chemistry problems. Before the advent of large-scale, fully fault-tolerant quantum computers, the variational quantum eigensolver~(VQE) is a promising heuristic quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Chu Guo , Yi Fan , Zhiqian Xu , Honghui Shang

The development of quantum algorithms and their application to quantum chemistry has introduced new opportunities for solving complex molecular problems that are computationally infeasible for classical methods. In quantum chemistry, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Fabio Tarocco , Davide Materia , Leonardo Ratini , Leonardo Guidoni

In the noisy-intermediate-scale-quantum era, Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is a promising method to study ground state properties in quantum chemistry, materials science, and condensed physics. However, general quantum eigensolvers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Yusen Wu , Zigeng Huang , Jinzhao Sun , Xiao Yuan , Jingbo B. Wang , Dingshun Lv

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

By design, the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) strives to recover the lowest-energy eigenvalue of a given Hamiltonian by preparing quantum states guided by the variational principle. In practice, the prepared quantum state is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-29 Daniel Claudino , Jerimiah Wright , Alexander J. McCaskey , Travis S. Humble

We present a variational quantum thermalizer (VQT), called quantum-VQT (qVQT), which extends the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) to finite temperatures. The qVQT makes use of an intermediate measurement between two variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 Johannes Selisko , Maximilian Amsler , Thomas Hammerschmidt , Ralf Drautz , Thomas Eckl

In the emergent realm of quantum computing, the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) stands out as a promising algorithm for solving complex quantum problems, especially in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era. However, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-13 Subhasree Bhattacharjee , Soumyadip Sarkar , Kunal Das , Bikramjit Sarkar

The computation of electronic excited states and real-time quantum dynamics of many-fermion systems is among the most promising applications of near-term quantum computing. In this work, we generalize the reinforcement learning contracted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Jiaji Zhang , Lipeng Chen , Carlos L. Benavides-Riveros

In this work, we present the integration of Qiskit Nature's quantum chemistry solvers into the Atomic Simulation Environment (ASE), enabling hybrid quantum-classical workflows for force-driven atomistic simulations. This coupling allows the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Wilke Dononelli

Variational quantum algorithms on bosonic quantum processors are an emerging paradigm for quantum chemistry calculations, exploiting the natural alignment between molecular structure and harmonic oscillator-based hardware. We introduce the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Marlon F. Jost , Sijia S. Dong