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Variational quantum algorithms exploit the features of superposition and entanglement to optimize a cost function efficiently by manipulating the quantum states. They are suitable for noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 Yunya Liu , Jiakun Liu , Jordan R. Raney , Pai Wang

We propose a modification of the Variational Quantum Eigensolver algorithm for electronic structure optimization using quantum computers, named non-unitary Variational Quantum Eigensolver (nu-VQE), in which a non-unitary operator is…

We present the meta-VQE, an algorithm capable to learn the ground state energy profile of a parametrized Hamiltonian. By training the meta-VQE with a few data points, it delivers an initial circuit parametrization that can be used to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-01 Alba Cervera-Lierta , Jakob S. Kottmann , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

We investigate the possibility to calculate the ground-state energy of the atomic systems on a quantum computer. For this purpose we evaluate the lowest binding energy of the moscovium atom with the use of the iterative phase estimation and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 V. A. Zaytsev , M. E. Groshev , I. A. Maltsev , A. V. Durova , V. M. Shabaev

Variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is a promising algorithm suitable for near-term quantum machines. VQE aims to approximate the lowest eigenvalue of an exponentially sized matrix in polynomial time. It minimizes quantum resource…

Variational-Quantum-Eigensolver(VQE) method on a quantum computer is a well-known hybrid algorithm to solve the eigenstates and eigenvalues that uses both quantum and classical computers. This method has the potential to solve quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-15 Hikaru Wakaura , Takao Tomono , Shoya Yasuda

Molecular quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) may provide low-power, high-speed computational hardware for processing classical information. Simulation and modeling play an important role in the design of QCA circuits because fully-coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Nischal Binod Gautam , Enrique P. Blair

Calculating the ground state properties of a Hamiltonian can be mapped to the problem of finding the ground state of a smaller Hamiltonian through the use of embedding methods. These embedding techniques have the ability to drastically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Lana Mineh , Ashley Montanaro

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) are increasingly being applied in simulations of strongly-bound (covalently bonded) systems using full molecular orbital basis representations. The application of quantum computers to the weakly-bound…

Electron-molecule collisions play a central role in both natural processes and modern technological applications, particularly in plasma processing. Conventional computational strategies such as the R-matrix method have been widely adopted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Dario Picozzi , Jonathan Tennyson , Vincent Graves , Jimena D. Gorfinkiel

The iterative quantum phase estimation algorithm, applied to calculating the ground state energies of quantum chemical systems, is theoretically appealing in its wide scope of being able to handle both weakly and strongly correlated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-11 Dipanjali Halder , Srinivasa Prasannaa V. , Valay Agarawal , Rahul Maitra

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 accurate computation of properties of large molecular systems is classically infeasible and is one of the applications in which it is hoped that quantum computers will demonstrate an advantage over classical devices. However, due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Michael A. Jones , Harish J. Vallury , Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg

Quantum annealers are an alternative approach to quantum computing which make use of the adiabatic theorem to efficiently find the ground state of a physically realizable Hamiltonian. Such devices are currently commercially available and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Justin Copenhaver , Adam Wasserman , Birgit Wehefritz-Kaufmann

A quantum computing algorithm is proposed to obtain low-lying excited states in many-body interacting systems. The approximate eigenstates are obtained by using a quantum space diagonalization method in a subspace of states selected from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-30 Jing Zhang , Denis Lacroix

Finding and probing the ground states of spin lattices, such as the antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the kagome lattice (KAFH), is a very challenging problem on classical computers and only possible for relatively small systems. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Jan Lukas Bosse , Ashley Montanaro

Quantum chemistry calculations of large, strongly correlated systems are typically limited by the computation cost that scales exponentially with the size of the system. Quantum algorithms, designed specifically for quantum computers, can…

Quantum simulators offer the potential to utilize the quantum nature of a physical system to study another physical system. In contrast to conventional simulation, which experiences an exponential increase in computational complexity,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-24 Xuliang Du , Yang Shen , Zipeng Wu , Bei Zeng , Sen Yang

Quantum computing is moving beyond its early stage and seeking for commercial applications in chemical and biomedical sciences. In the current noisy intermediate-scale quantum computing era, quantum resource is too scarce to support these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Honghui Shang , Yi Fan , Li Shen , Chu Guo , Jie Liu , Xiaohui Duan , Fang Li , Zhenyu Li

We investigate the electronic structure of methanimine (CH2NH) and water (H2O) molecules in an effort to locate conical intersections (CIs) using variational quantum algorithms. Our approach implements and compares a range of hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Samir Belaloui , Nacer Eddine Belaloui , Achour Benslama