[HTML][HTML] The variational quantum eigensolver: a review of methods and best practices

J Tilly, H Chen, S Cao, D Picozzi, K Setia, Y Li, E Grant… - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
The variational quantum eigensolver (or VQE), first developed by Peruzzo et al.(2014), has
received significant attention from the research community in recent years. It uses the …

Emerging quantum computing algorithms for quantum chemistry

M Motta, JE Rice - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Digital quantum computers provide a computational framework for solving the Schrödinger
equation for a variety of many‐particle systems. Quantum computing algorithms for the …

Exploiting symmetry in variational quantum machine learning

JJ Meyer, M Mularski, E Gil-Fuster, AA Mele, F Arzani… - PRX Quantum, 2023 - APS
Variational quantum machine learning is an extensively studied application of near-term
quantum computers. The success of variational quantum learning models crucially depends …

General parameter-shift rules for quantum gradients

D Wierichs, J Izaac, C Wang, CYY Lin - Quantum, 2022 - quantum-journal.org
Variational quantum algorithms are ubiquitous in applications of noisy intermediate-scale
quantum computers. Due to the structure of conventional parametrized quantum gates, the …

Orbital-optimized pair-correlated electron simulations on trapped-ion quantum computers

L Zhao, J Goings, K Shin, W Kyoung, JI Fuks… - npj Quantum …, 2023 - nature.com
Variational quantum eigensolvers (VQE) are among the most promising approaches for
solving electronic structure problems on near-term quantum computers. A critical challenge …

Generalized quantum circuit differentiation rules

O Kyriienko, VE Elfving - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
Variational quantum algorithms that are used for quantum machine learning rely on the
ability to automatically differentiate parametrized quantum circuits with respect to underlying …

Exact electronic states with shallow quantum circuits from global optimisation

HGA Burton, D Marti-Dafcik, DP Tew… - npj Quantum …, 2023 - nature.com
Quantum computers promise to revolutionise molecular electronic simulations by
overcoming the exponential memory scaling. While electronic wave functions can be …

Enhancing initial state overlap through orbital optimization for faster molecular electronic ground-state energy estimation

PJ Ollitrault, CL Cortes, JF Gonthier, RM Parrish… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The phase estimation algorithm is crucial for computing the ground-state energy of a
molecular electronic Hamiltonian on a quantum computer. Its efficiency depends on the …

Universal quantum circuits for quantum chemistry

JM Arrazola, O Di Matteo, N Quesada, S Jahangiri… - Quantum, 2022 - quantum-journal.org
Universal gate sets for quantum computing have been known for decades, yet no universal
gate set has been proposed for particle-conserving unitaries, which are the operations of …

Variational approaches to constructing the many-body nuclear ground state for quantum computing

I Stetcu, A Baroni, J Carlson - Physical Review C, 2022 - APS
We explore the preparation of specific nuclear states on gate-based quantum hardware
using variational algorithms. Large-scale classical diagonalizations of the nuclear shell …