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Variational Quantum Eigensolver is considered promising for medium-scale noisy quantum computers. Expressibility is an important metric for measuring the capability of a variational quantum Ansatz circuit. A commonly used method to increase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Peng Wang , Ruyu Yang

The superiority of variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) such as quantum neural networks (QNNs) and variational quantum eigen-solvers (VQEs) heavily depends on the expressivity of the employed ansatze. Namely, a simple ansatze is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Yuxuan Du , Zhuozhuo Tu , Xiao Yuan , Dacheng Tao

Variational quantum algorithms have emerged as a leading paradigm that extracts practical computation from near-term intermediate-scale quantum devices, enabling advances in quantum chemistry simulations, combinatorial optimization, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Manish Mallapur , Ronit Raj , Ankur Raina

With the exponentially faster computation for certain problems, quantum computing has garnered significant attention in recent years. Variational quantum algorithms are crucial methods to implement quantum computing, and an appropriate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Fei Zhang , Jie Li , Zhimin He , Haozhen Situ

Variational quantum algorithms are suitable for use on noisy quantum systems. One of the most important use-cases is the quantum simulation of materials, using the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE). To optimize VQE performance, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Waheeda Saib , Petros Wallden , Ismail Akhalwaya

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

Ansatz selection is a key factor in the performance of variational quantum algorithms (VQAs). While much of the state-of-the-art still relies on heuristic choices, an inadequate circuit structure can compromise both the expressive power and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Rodrigo M. Sanz , Andreu Angles-Castillo , Eduard Alarcon , Carmen G Almudever

Variational quantum eigensolver (VQE), which attracts attention as a promising application of noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices, finds a ground state of a given Hamiltonian by variationally optimizing the parameters of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-12 Fumiyoshi Kobayashi , Kosuke Mitarai , Keisuke Fujii

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) face an inherent trade-off between expressivity and trainability: deeper circuits can represent richer states but suffer from noise accumulation and barren plateaus, while shallow circuits remain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Shaojun Wu , Shan Jin , Abolfazl Bayat , Xiaoting Wang

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is a quantum algorithm used to find the ground state energy of a given Hamiltonian. The key component of VQE is the ansatz, which is a trial wavefunction that the algorithm uses to approximate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-05 Yilin Shen

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is a method that uses a hybrid quantum-classical computational approach to find eigenvalues and eigenvalues of a Hamiltonian. VQE has been proposed as an alternative to fully quantum algorithms such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Dmitry A. Fedorov , Bo Peng , Niranjan Govind , Yuri Alexeev

Quantum variational algorithms are one of the most promising applications of near-term quantum computers; however, recent studies have demonstrated that unless the variational quantum circuits are configured in a problem-specific manner,…

Hybrid quantum-classical algorithms have been proposed to circumvent noise limitations in quantum computers. Such algorithms delegate only a calculation of the expectation value to the quantum computer. Among them, the Variational Quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-02 Baptiste Anselme Martin , Pascal Simon , Marko J. Rančić

Parameterized quantum circuits play an essential role in the performance of many variational hybrid quantum-classical (HQC) algorithms. One challenge in implementing such algorithms is to choose an effective circuit that well represents the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Sukin Sim , Peter D. Johnson , Alan Aspuru-Guzik

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

The variational quantum eigensolver (or VQE) uses the variational principle to compute the ground state energy of a Hamiltonian, a problem that is central to quantum chemistry and condensed matter physics. Conventional computing methods are…

Parametric quantum circuits play a crucial role in the performance of many variational quantum algorithms. To successfully implement such algorithms, one must design efficient quantum circuits that sufficiently approximate the solution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Lena Funcke , Tobias Hartung , Karl Jansen , Stefan Kühn , Paolo Stornati

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) have shown strong evidences to gain provable computational advantages for diverse fields such as finance, machine learning, and chemistry. However, the heuristic ansatz exploited in modern VQAs is…

Sampling from a probability distribution is a core task in many quantum and classical algorithms. Variational quantum circuits provide a natural approach to generating such distributions, as measurement outcomes directly define the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Ronit Raj , Kshitij Durge , Manish Mallapur , Rohit Taeja Kumar , Ankur Raina

Combinatorial optimization problems have wide-ranging applications in industry and academia. Quantum computers may help solve them by sampling from carefully prepared Ansatz quantum circuits. However, current quantum computers are limited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Sabina Drăgoi , Alberto Baiardi , Daniel J. Egger
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