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Despite the advantage quantum computers are expected to deliver when performing simulations compared to their classical counterparts, the current noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices remain limited in their capabilities. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Clara Ferreira Cores , Kaur Kristjuhan , Mark Nicholas Jones

Parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) play an essential role in the application of variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) in noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. The PQCs are a leading candidate to achieve a quantum advantage in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Joona V. Pankkonen , Matti Raasakka , Andrea Marchesin , Ilkka Tittonen

A direct orbital optimization method is presented for density functional calculations of excited electronic states using either a real space grid or a plane wave basis set. The method is variational, provides atomic forces in the excited…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Aleksei V. Ivanov , Gianluca Levi , Elvar Ö. Jónsson , Hannes Jónsson

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

Quantum computing has gained a lot of attention recently, and scientists have seen potential applications in this field using quantum computing for Cryptography and Communication to Machine Learning and Healthcare. Protein folding has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-16 Hasan Mustafa , Sai Nandan Morapakula , Prateek Jain , Srinjoy Ganguly

The recent developments of quantum computing present potential novel pathways for quantum chemistry, as the increased computational power of quantum computers could be harnessed to naturally encode and solve electronic structure problems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 Lila Cadi Tazi , Alex J. W. Thom

Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) provide a promising framework for tackling complex optimization problems on near-term quantum hardware. Here, we demonstrate that hybrid qubit--qumode quantum devices offer an efficient route to solving…

Quantum variational optimization has been posed as an alternative to solve optimization problems faster and at a larger scale than what classical methods allow. In this paper we study systematically the role of entanglement, the structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-30 Pablo Díez-Valle , Diego Porras , Juan José García-Ripoll

In this work, we study the projective quantum eigensolver (PQE) approach to optimizing unitary coupled cluster wave functions on quantum hardware, as introduced in arXiv:2102.00345. The projective quantum eigensolver is a hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Martin Plazanet , Thomas Ayral

A hybrid quantum-classical algorithm is a computational scheme in which quantum circuits are used to extract information that is then processed by a classical routine to guide subsequent quantum operations. These algorithms are especially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Alon Levi , Ziv Ossi , Eliahu Cohen , Amit Te'eni

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

Recent progress in quantum computing is paving the way for the realization of early fault-tolerant quantum computers. To maximize the utility of these devices, it is important to develop quantum algorithms that match their capabilities and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Gumaro Rendon , Peter D. Johnson

This paper introduces Witnessed Quantum Time Evolution (WQTE), a novel quantum algorithm for efficiently computing the eigen-energy spectra of arbitrary quantum systems without requiring eigenstate preparation-a key limitation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Qing-Xing Xie , Zidong Lin , Yun-Long Liu , Yan Zhao

Classical simulation of molecular systems is limited by exponential scaling, a hurdle quantum algorithms like Variational Quantum Eigensolvers (VQEs) aim to overcome. Although ADAPT-VQE enhances VQEs by dynamically building ans\"atze, it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Tatiana A. Bespalova , Oumaya Ladhari , Guido Masella

Using quantum devices supported by classical computational resources is a promising approach to quantum-enabled computation. One example of such a hybrid quantum-classical approach is the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) built to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Jarrod R. McClean , Mollie E. Schwartz , Jonathan Carter , Wibe A. de Jong

The development of Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer (FTQC) gradually raises a possibility to implement the Quantum Phase Estimation (QPE) algorithm. However, QPE works only for normalized systems. This requires the minimum and maximum of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-19 Hikaru Wakaura , Andriyan B. Suksmono

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is a promising quantum algorithm for applications in chemistry within the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era. The ability for a quantum computer to simulate electronic structures with high…

The optimization of circuit parameters of variational quantum algorithms such as the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) or the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is a key challenge for the practical deployment of near-term…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-09 Robert M. Parrish , Joseph T. Iosue , Asier Ozaeta , Peter L. McMahon

Variational quantum eigensolver(VQE) typically minimizes energy with hybrid quantum-classical optimization, which aims to find the ground state. Here, we propose a VQE by minimizing energy variance, which is called as variance-VQE(VVQE).…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-30 Dan-Bo Zhang , Zhan-Hao Yuan , Tao Yin

While quantum algorithms for simulation exhibit better asymptotic scaling than their classical counterparts, they currently cannot be implemented on real-world devices. Instead, chemists and computer scientists rely on costly classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-03 Christopher Kang , Nicholas P. Bauman , Sriram Krishnamoorthy , Karol Kowalski