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Hybrid algorithms that combine quantum and classical resources have become commonplace in quantum computing. The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is routinely used to solve prototype problems. Currently, hybrid algorithms use no more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Manpreet Singh Jattana

Quantum computers show potential for achieving computational advantage over classical computers, with many candidate applications in combinatorial optimisation. We present an application level benchmarking framework for near-term quantum…

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is a fundamental algorithm in quantum computing, yet a coherent geometric characterization of VQE remains missing due to fragmented analyses across fixed-ansatz and adaptive-circuit formulations. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Zhen Qin

Variational hybrid quantum-classical optimization represents one of the most promising avenue to show the advantage of nowadays noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers in solving hard problems, such as finding the minimum-energy state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Laura Gentini , Alessandro Cuccoli , Stefano Pirandola , Paola Verrucchi , Leonardo Banchi

We propose a hybrid variational quantum algorithm that has variational parameters used by both the quantum circuit and the subsequent classical optimization. Similar to the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE), this algorithm applies a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 John P. T. Stenger , C. Stephen Hellberg , Daniel Gunlycke

Hybrid quantum-classical algorithms, such as variational quantum algorithms (VQA), are suitable for implementation on NISQ computers. In this Letter we expand an implicit step of VQAs: the classical pre-computation subroutine which can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-01 Jonathan Wurtz , Peter Love

There has been much recent interest in near-term applications of quantum computers, i.e., using quantum circuits that have short decoherence times due to hardware limitations. Variational quantum algorithms (VQA), wherein an optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-16 Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Georgios Korpas , Jakub Marecek , Elton Yechao Zhu

Variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is demonstrated to be the promising methodology for quantum chemistry based on near-term quantum devices. However, many problems are yet to be investigated for this methodology, such as the influences…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-01-18 Xian-Hu Zha , Chao Zhang , Dengdong Fan , Pengxiang Xu , Shiyu Du , Rui-Qin Zhang , Chen Fu

In this study, we study the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) application for the Ising model as a test bed model, in which we pivotally delved into several optimization methods, both classical and quantum, and analyzed the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-21 Duc-Truyen Le , Vu-Linh Nguyen , Cong-Ha Nguyen , Quoc-Hung Nguyen , Van-Duy Nguyen

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) are promising tools for demonstrating quantum utility on near-term quantum hardware, with applications in optimisation, quantum simulation, and machine learning. While researchers have studied how easy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Connor van Rossum , Sally Shrapnel , Riddhi Gupta

Simulating the Hubbard model is of great interest to a wide range of applications within condensed matter physics, however its solution on classical computers remains challenging in dimensions larger than one. The relative simplicity of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Antonios M. Alvertis , Abid Khan , Thomas Iadecola , Peter P. Orth , Norm Tubman

Variational quantum approaches have shown great promise in finding near-optimal solutions to computationally challenging tasks. Nonetheless, enforcing constraints in a disciplined fashion has been largely unexplored. To address this gap,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Thinh Viet Le , Vassilis Kekatos

In recent years, Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) have emerged as a promising approach for solving optimization problems on quantum computers in the NISQ era. However, one limitation of VQAs is their reliance on fixed-structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Gloria Turati , Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema , Paolo Cremonesi

Quantum systems have historically been formidable to simulate using classical computational methods, particularly as the system size grows. In recent years, advancements in quantum computing technology have offered new opportunities for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Jinao Wang , Rimika Jaiswal

Portfolio optimization is a fundamental problem in finance that aims to determine the optimal allocation of assets within a portfolio to maximize returns while minimizing risk. It can be formulated as a Quadratic Unconstrained Binary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Anbang Wang , Zhonggang Lv , Zhenyuan Ma , Dunbo Cai , Zhihong Zhang

Quantum annealers provide an effective framework for solving large-scale combinatorial optimization problems. This work presents a novel methodology for training Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) by reformulating the parameter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Ernesto Acosta , Guillermo Botella , Carlos Cano

The social worker scheduling problem is a class of combinatorial optimization problems that combines scheduling with routing issues. These types of problems with classical computing can only be solved, in the best of cases, in an…

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is a promising algorithm for quantum computing applications in chemistry and materials science, particularly in addressing the limitations of classical methods for complex systems. This study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Nia Pollard , Kamal Choudhary

Quantum error mitigation (QEM) is crucial for obtaining reliable results on quantum computers by suppressing quantum noise with moderate resources. It is a key factor for successful and practical quantum algorithm implementations in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-28 Shi-Xin Zhang , Zhou-Quan Wan , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Hong Yao , Shengyu Zhang

A novel class of hybrid quantum-classical algorithms based on the variational approach have recently emerged from separate proposals addressing, for example, quantum chemistry and combinatorial problems. These algorithms provide an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-09 Gian Giacomo Guerreschi , Mikhail Smelyanskiy