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Variational Quantum Eigensolvers (VQEs) are a powerful class of hybrid quantum-classical algorithms designed to approximate the ground state of a quantum system described by its Hamiltonian. VQEs hold promise for various applications,…
Advances in quantum simulator technology is increasingly required because research on quantum algorithms is becoming more sophisticated and complex. State vector simulation utilizes CPU and memory resources in computing nodes exponentially…
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…
The classical simulation of quantum algorithms is a crucial tool for circuit development, testing, and validation. Although acceleration using GPUs significantly reduces simulation time, most high-performance simulators rely on…
In an extension of the Unconventional Noiseless Intermediate Quantum Emulator, this work introduces a classical emulation of the quantum Harrow-Hassidim-Lloyd algorithm for sampling from the solution space of linear systems. The emulated…
The success of the current generation of Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) hardware shows that quantum hardware may be able to tackle complex problems even without error correction. One outstanding issue is that of coherent errors…
In this paper, we introduce stochastic simulated quantum annealing (SSQA) for large-scale combinatorial optimization problems. SSQA is designed based on stochastic computing and quantum Monte Carlo, which can simulate quantum annealing (QA)…
We study provably effective and efficient data reduction for a class of NP-hard graph modification problems based on vertex degree properties. We show fixed-parameter tractability for NP-hard graph completion (that is, edge addition) cases…
Quantum machine learning -- and specifically Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) -- offers a powerful, flexible paradigm for programming near-term quantum computers, with applications in chemistry, metrology, materials science, data…
Adiabatic quantum computing has evolved in recent years from a theoretical field into an immensely practical area, a change partially sparked by D-Wave System's quantum annealing hardware. These multimillion-dollar quantum annealers offer…
We present a novel distributed evolutionary algorithm, KaFFPaE, to solve the Graph Partitioning Problem, which makes use of KaFFPa (Karlsruhe Fast Flow Partitioner). The use of our multilevel graph partitioner KaFFPa provides new effective…
Many real-world problems, like modelling environment dynamics, physical processes, time series etc., involve solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) parameterised by problem-specific conditions. Recently, a deep learning architecture…
We present a meta-learning framework that leverages Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural networks to accelerate parameter initialization in quantum chemical simulations using the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE). By training the LSTM…
The imaginary-time evolution of quantum states is integral to various fields, ranging from natural sciences to classical optimization or machine learning. Since simulating quantum imaginary-time evolution generally requires storing an…
Scaling the size of monolithic quantum computer systems is a difficult task. As the number of qubits within a device increases, a number of factors contribute to decreases in yield and performance. To meet this challenge, distributed…
Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) combine quantum circuits with classical optimization to tackle problems that may benefit from the capabilities of near-term quantum hardware. In knowledge graph embedding, recent proposals based on this…
Imaginary time evolution is a powerful tool for studying quantum systems. While it is possible to simulate with a classical computer, the time and memory requirements generally scale exponentially with the system size. Conversely, quantum…
We propose a variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) for the simulation of strongly-correlated quantum matter based on a multi-scale entanglement renormalization ansatz (MERA) and gradient-based optimization. This MERA quantum eigensolver can…
Optimal parameter setting for applications problems embedded into hardware graphs is key to practical quantum annealers (QA). Embedding chains typically crop up as harmful Griffiths phases, but can be used as a resource as we show here: to…