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The hybrid quantum-classical algorithm is actively examined as a technique applicable even to intermediate-scale quantum computers. To execute this algorithm, the hardware efficient ansatz is often used, thanks to its implementability and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Kouhei Nakaji , Naoki Yamamoto

The design of parametric quantum circuits (PQCs) for efficient use in variational quantum simulations (VQS) is subject to two competing factors. On one hand, the set of states that can be generated by the PQC has to be large enough to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Lena Funcke , Tobias Hartung , Karl Jansen , Stefan Kühn , Manuel Schneider , Paolo Stornati

Quantum generative models may achieve an advantage on quantum devices by their inherent probabilistic nature and efficient sampling strategies. However, current approaches mostly rely on general-purpose circuits, such as the hardware…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Mathis Makarski , Jumpei Kato , Yuki Sato , Naoki Yamamoto

Recent work has begun to explore the potential of parametrized quantum circuits (PQCs) as general function approximators. In this work, we propose a quantum-classical deep network structure to enhance classical CNN model discriminability.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-10 Tong Dou , Guofeng Zhang , Wei Cui

Parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) have emerged as a promising approach for quantum neural networks. However, understanding their expressive power in accomplishing machine learning tasks remains a crucial question. This paper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Zhan Yu , Qiuhao Chen , Yuling Jiao , Yinan Li , Xiliang Lu , Xin Wang , Jerry Zhijian Yang

In recent years, neural networks (NNs) have driven significant advances in machine learning. However, as tasks grow more complex, NNs often require large numbers of trainable parameters, which increases computational and energy demands.…

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

Classical optimization of parameterized quantum circuits is a widely studied methodology for the preparation of complex quantum states, as well as the solution of machine learning and optimization problems. However, it is well known that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 Abhinav Deshpande , Marcel Hinsche , Khadijeh Najafi , Kunal Sharma , Ryan Sweke , Christa Zoufal

Random quantum circuits have been utilized in the contexts of quantum supremacy demonstrations, variational quantum algorithms for chemistry and machine learning, and blackhole information. The ability of random circuits to approximate any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-23 Minzhao Liu , Junyu Liu , Yuri Alexeev , Liang Jiang

Variational training of parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) underpins many workflows employed on near-term noisy intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) devices. It is a hybrid quantum-classical approach that minimizes an associated cost…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Kathleen E. Hamilton , Emily Lynn , Raphael C. Pooser

While scalable error correction schemes and fault tolerant quantum computing seem not to be universally accessible in the near sight, the efforts of many researchers have been directed to the exploration of the contemporary available…

Parameterized quantum circuits (PQC, aka, variational quantum circuits) are among the proposals for a computational advantage over classical computation of near-term (not fault tolerant) digital quantum computers. PQCs have to be "trained"…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-01 Evgenii Dolzhkov , Bahman Ghandchi , Dirk Oliver Theis

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) rely on parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs), whose performance is governed by expressibility and trainability. Existing studies typically evaluate these properties at the logical circuit level,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Muhammad Kashif , Muhammad Shafique

We introduce multiple parametrized circuit ans\"atze and present the results of a numerical study comparing their performance with a standard Quantum Alternating Operator Ansatz approach. The ans\"atze are inspired by mixing and phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-27 Ryan LaRose , Eleanor Rieffel , Davide Venturelli

Designing effective quantum circuits remains a central challenge in quantum computing, as circuit structure strongly influences expressivity, trainability, and hardware feasibility. Current approaches, whether using manually designed…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Devroop Kar , Daniel Krutz , Travis Desell

Parameterised quantum circuits (PQCs) hold great promise for demonstrating quantum advantages in practical applications of quantum computation. Examples of successful applications include the variational quantum eigensolver, the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Xin Hong , Wei-Jia Huang , Wei-Chen Chien , Yuan Feng , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Sanjiang Li , Mingsheng Ying

In this thesis we expand upon the results that led to the paper of Lee et al., arXiv:2105.01114 (2021). In particular, we give more details on the oracular formulation of variational quantum algorithms, and the relationship between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-13 Juneseo Lee

Although we are currently in the era of noisy intermediate scale quantum devices, several studies are being conducted with the aim of bringing machine learning to the quantum domain. Currently, quantum variational circuits are one of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-23 Lucas Friedrich , Jonas Maziero

Hybrid quantum-classical computing relies heavily on Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) to tackle challenges in diverse fields like quantum chemistry and machine learning. However, VQAs face a critical limitation: the balance between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Jeihee Cho , Junyong Lee , Daniel Justice , Shiho Kim

A principal concern in the optimisation of parametrised quantum circuits is the presence of barren plateaus, which present fundamental challenges to the scalability of applications, such as variational algorithms and quantum machine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-30 Nikhil Khatri , Stefan Zohren , Gabriel Matos