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The local Hamiltonian problem consists of estimating the ground-state energy (given by the minimum eigenvalue) of a local quantum Hamiltonian. First, we show the existence of a good product-state approximation for the ground-state energy of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-04 Fernando G. S. L. Brandão , Aram W. Harrow

Variational quantum algorithms rely on gradient based optimization to iteratively minimize a cost function evaluated by measuring output(s) of a quantum processor. A barren plateau is the phenomenon of exponentially vanishing gradients in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-26 Alexey Uvarov , Jacob Biamonte

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is one of the most prominent algorithms using near-term quantum devices, designed to find the ground state of a Hamiltonian. In VQE, a classical optimizer iteratively updates the parameters in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Chenyu Shi , Vedran Dunjko , Hao Wang

The variational quantum eigensolver algorithm has gained attentions due to its capability of locating the ground state and ground energy of a Hamiltonian, which is a fundamental task in many physical and chemical problems. Although it has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Trung Huynh , Gwangil An , Minsu Kim , Yu-Seong Jeon , Jinhyoung Lee

We present a novel quantum algorithm for approximating the ground-state in quantum many-body systems, particularly suited for Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices. Our approach integrates Variational Quantum Eigensolvers (VQE)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-18 Yihao Liu , Min-Quan He , Z. D. Wang

Preparing the ground state of a local Hamiltonian is a crucial problem in understanding quantum many-body systems, with applications in a variety of physics fields and connections to combinatorial optimization. While various quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Benjamin F. Schiffer , Jordi Tura

Quantum chemistry is envisioned as an early and disruptive application for quantum computers. Yet, closer scrutiny of the proposed algorithms shows that there are considerable difficulties along the way. Here, we propose two criteria for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Thibaud Louvet , Thomas Ayral , Xavier Waintal

Solving for quantum ground states is important for understanding the properties of quantum many-body systems, and quantum computers are potentially well-suited for solving for quantum ground states. Recent work has presented a nearly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Matthew Thibodeau , Bryan K. Clark

Due to the limitations of present-day quantum hardware, it is especially critical to design algorithms that make the best possible use of available resources. When simulating quantum many-body systems on a quantum computer, straightforward…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Olivia Di Matteo , Anna McCoy , Peter Gysbers , Takayuki Miyagi , R. M. Woloshyn , Petr Navrátil

Highly excited states of quantum many-body systems are central objects in the study of quantum dynamics and thermalization that challenge classical computational methods due to their volume-law entanglement content. In this work, we explore…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-17 Feng Zhang , Niladri Gomes , Yongxin Yao , Peter P. Orth , Thomas Iadecola

Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) are critically threatened by the Barren Plateau (BP) phenomenon. In this work, we introduce the H-EFT Variational Ansatz (H-EFT-VA), an architecture inspired by Effective Field Theory (EFT). By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Eyad I. B Hamid

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) have emerged in recent years as a promise to obtain quantum advantage. These task-oriented algorithms work in a hybrid loop combining a quantum processor and classical optimization. Using a specific…

Many computationally hard problems can be encoded in quantum Hamiltonians. The solution to these problems is given by the ground states of these Hamiltonians. A state-of-the-art algorithm for finding the ground state of a Hamiltonian is the…

Eigenstate preparation is ubiquitous in quantum computing, and a standard approach for generating the lowest-energy states of a given system is by employing adiabatic state preparation (ASP). In the present work, we investigate a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-30 Shunji Matsuura , Samantha Buck , Valentin Senicourt , Arman Zaribafiyan

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is an attracting possible application of near-term quantum computers. Originally, the aim of the VQE is to find a ground state for a given specific Hamiltonian. It is achieved by minimizing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-30 Kosuke Mitarai , Tennin Yan , Keisuke Fujii

We explore the preparation of specific nuclear states on gate-based quantum hardware using variational algorithms. Large scale classical diagonalization of the nuclear shell model have reached sizes of $10^9 - 10^{10}$ basis states, but are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-07-11 I. Stetcu , A. Baroni , J. Carlson

Determining properties of ground states of spin Hamiltonians remains a topic of central relevance connecting disciplines of mathematical, theoretical and applied physics. In the last few decades, ground state properties of physical systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Jacob Biamonte

Quantum phase estimation (QPE) plays a pivotal role in many quantum algorithms, offering provable speedups in applications such as Shor's factoring algorithm. While fault-tolerant quantum algorithms for combinatorial and Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Nora Bauer , George Siopsis

The Fermi-Hubbard model is of fundamental importance in condensed-matter physics, yet is extremely challenging to solve numerically. Finding the ground state of the Hubbard model using variational methods has been predicted to be one of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Chris Cade , Lana Mineh , Ashley Montanaro , Stasja Stanisic

In quantum adiabatic evolution algorithms, the quantum computer follows the ground state of a slowly varying Hamiltonian. The ground state of the initial Hamiltonian is easy to construct; the ground state of the final Hamiltonian encodes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Edward Farhi , Jeffrey Goldstone , Sam Gutmann