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Consider a fixed universe of $N=2^n$ elements and the uniform distribution over elements of some subset of size $K$. Given samples from this distribution, the task of complement sampling is to provide a sample from the complementary subset.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Marcello Benedetti , Harry Buhrman , Jordi Weggemans

The factorized form of the unitary coupled-cluster approximation is one of the most promising methodologies to prepare trial states for strongly correlated systems within the variational quantum eigensolver framework. The factorized form of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Luogen Xu , Joseph T. Lee , J. K. Freericks

Optimization of circuits is an essential task for both quantum and classical computers to improve their efficiency. In contrast, classical logic optimization is known to be difficult, and a lot of heuristic approaches have been developed so…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Yusei Mori , Hideaki Hakoshima , Kyohei Sudo , Toshio Mori , Kosuke Mitarai , Keisuke Fujii

Many quantum algorithms rely on a quality initial state for optimal performance. Preparing an initial state for specific applications can considerably reduce the cost of probabilistic algorithms such as the well studied quantum phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Alexandre Fleury , James Brown , Erika Lloyd , Maritza Hernandez , Isaac H. Kim

Solving the electronic Schrodinger equation for strongly correlated ground states is a long-standing challenge. We present quantum algorithms for the variational optimization of wavefunctions correlated by products of unitary operators,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Mario Motta , Kevin J. Sung , James Shee

Quantum circuits that are classically simulatable tell us when quantum computation becomes less powerful than or equivalent to classical computation. Such classically simulatable circuits are of importance because they illustrate what makes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Ryotaro Suzuki , Kosuke Mitarai , Keisuke Fujii

Quantum simulation is widely regarded as one of the most promising routes to genuine quantum advantage, yet most existing approaches to quantum chemistry are formulated in terms of closed-system, unitary dynamics and ground-state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Michael Marthaler , Elias Zapusek , Florentin Reiter

Variational methods offer a highly promising route to exploiting quantum computers for chemistry tasks. Here we employ methods described in a sister paper to the present report, entitled ab initio machine synthesis of quantum circuits, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Cica Gustiani , Richard Meister , Simon C. Benjamin

The factorized form of unitary coupled cluster theory (UCC) is a promising wave-function ansatz for the variational quantum eigensolver algorithm. Here, we present a quantum inspired algorithm for UCC based on an exact operator identity for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-24 Jia Chen , Hai-Ping Cheng , James Freericks

We describe the problems of quantum chemistry, the intuition behind classical heuristic methods used to solve them, a conjectured form of the classical complexity of quantum chemistry problems, and the subsequent opportunities for quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-17 Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

Recent experiments demonstrated quantum computational advantage in random circuit sampling and Gaussian boson sampling. However, it is unclear whether these experiments can lead to practical applications even after considerable research…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-14 Chae-Yeun Park , Pablo A. M. Casares , Juan Miguel Arrazola , Joonsuk Huh

Numerous reports claim that quantum advantage, which should emerge as a direct consequence of the advent of quantum computers, will herald a new era of chemical research because it will enable scientists to perform the kinds of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 V. E. Elfving , B. W. Broer , M. Webber , J. Gavartin , M. D. Halls , K. P. Lorton , A. Bochevarov

Uncertainty is fundamental in modern power systems, where renewable generation and fluctuating demand make stochastic optimization indispensable. The chance constrained unit commitment problem (UCP) captures this uncertainty but rapidly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 David Ribes , Tatiana Gonzalez Grandon

We introduce a multicomponent unitary coupled cluster framework for quantum simulations of molecular systems that incorporate both electronic and nuclear quantum effects beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. Using the…

Random quantum circuit sampling serves as a benchmark to demonstrate quantum computational advantage. Recent progress in classical algorithms, especially those based on tensor network methods, has significantly reduced the classical…

Quantum computer, harnessing quantum superposition to boost a parallel computational power, promises to outperform its classical counterparts and offer an exponentially increased scaling. The term "quantum advantage" was proposed to mark…

In the near future, there will likely be special-purpose quantum computers with 40-50 high-quality qubits. This paper lays general theoretical foundations for how to use such devices to demonstrate "quantum supremacy": that is, a clear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Scott Aaronson , Lijie Chen

In this work, we give a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for solving electronic structure problems of molecules using only linear quantum optical systems. The variational ansatz we proposed is a hybrid of non-interacting Boson dynamics…

We introduce a parallel, GPU-accelerated implementation of the iterative qubit coupled cluster (iQCC) method that overcomes the exponential growth of the transformed Hamiltonian -- the principal bottleneck for classical emulation of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Seyyed Mehdi Hosseini Jenab , Brandon Henderson , Scott N. Genin

In conventional circuit-based quantum computing architectures, the standard gate set includes arbitrary single-qubit rotations and two-qubit entangling gates. This choice is not always aligned with the native operations available in certain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Vinit Singh , Bin Yan