[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 …

Variational quantum algorithms

M Cerezo, A Arrasmith, R Babbush… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Applications such as simulating complicated quantum systems or solving large-scale linear
algebra problems are very challenging for classical computers, owing to the extremely high …

Perspective on the current state-of-the-art of quantum computing for drug discovery applications

NS Blunt, J Camps, O Crawford, R Izsák… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Computational chemistry is an essential tool in the pharmaceutical industry. Quantum
computing is a fast evolving technology that promises to completely shift the computational …

Quantum state preparation with optimal circuit depth: Implementations and applications

XM Zhang, T Li, X Yuan - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Quantum state preparation is an important subroutine for quantum computing. We show that
any n-qubit quantum state can be prepared with a Θ (n)-depth circuit using only single-and …

Hartree-Fock on a superconducting qubit quantum computer

Google AI Quantum and Collaborators*†, F Arute… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The simulation of fermionic systems is among the most anticipated applications of quantum
computing. We performed several quantum simulations of chemistry with up to one dozen …

Theory of trotter error with commutator scaling

AM Childs, Y Su, MC Tran, N Wiebe, S Zhu - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
The Lie-Trotter formula, together with its higher-order generalizations, provides a direct
approach to decomposing the exponential of a sum of operators. Despite significant effort …

Quantum chemistry in the age of quantum computing

Y Cao, J Romero, JP Olson, M Degroote… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Practical challenges in simulating quantum systems on classical computers have been
widely recognized in the quantum physics and quantum chemistry communities over the …

Even more efficient quantum computations of chemistry through tensor hypercontraction

J Lee, DW Berry, C Gidney, WJ Huggins, JR McClean… - PRX Quantum, 2021 - APS
We describe quantum circuits with only O~(N) Toffoli complexity that block encode the
spectra of quantum chemistry Hamiltonians in a basis of N arbitrary (eg, molecular) orbitals …

Quantum computational chemistry

S McArdle, S Endo, A Aspuru-Guzik, SC Benjamin… - Reviews of Modern …, 2020 - APS
One of the most promising suggested applications of quantum computing is solving
classically intractable chemistry problems. This may help to answer unresolved questions …

[HTML][HTML] How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers in 8 hours using 20 million noisy qubits

C Gidney, M Ekerå - Quantum, 2021 - quantum-journal.org
We significantly reduce the cost of factoring integers and computing discrete logarithms in
finite fields on a quantum computer by combining techniques from Shor 1994, Griffiths-Niu …