[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 …

NISQ computing: where are we and where do we go?

JWZ Lau, KH Lim, H Shrotriya, LC Kwek - AAPPS bulletin, 2022 - Springer
In this short review article, we aim to provide physicists not working within the quantum
computing community a hopefully easy-to-read introduction to the state of the art in the field …

A Lie algebraic theory of barren plateaus for deep parameterized quantum circuits

M Ragone, BN Bakalov, F Sauvage, AF Kemper… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Variational quantum computing schemes train a loss function by sending an initial state
through a parametrized quantum circuit, and measuring the expectation value of some …

Theoretical guarantees for permutation-equivariant quantum neural networks

L Schatzki, M Larocca, QT Nguyen, F Sauvage… - npj Quantum …, 2024 - nature.com
Despite the great promise of quantum machine learning models, there are several
challenges one must overcome before unlocking their full potential. For instance, models …

Shallow shadows: Expectation estimation using low-depth random Clifford circuits

C Bertoni, J Haferkamp, M Hinsche, M Ioannou… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We provide practical and powerful schemes for learning properties of a quantum state using
a small number of measurements. Specifically, we present a randomized measurement …

Does provable absence of barren plateaus imply classical simulability? Or, why we need to rethink variational quantum computing

M Cerezo, M Larocca, D García-Martín, NL Diaz… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
A large amount of effort has recently been put into understanding the barren plateau
phenomenon. In this perspective article, we face the increasingly loud elephant in the room …

Near-term quantum computing techniques: Variational quantum algorithms, error mitigation, circuit compilation, benchmarking and classical simulation

HL Huang, XY Xu, C Guo, G Tian, SJ Wei… - Science China Physics …, 2023 - Springer
Quantum computing is a game-changing technology for global academia, research centers
and industries including computational science, mathematics, finance, pharmaceutical …

Avoiding barren plateaus via transferability of smooth solutions in a Hamiltonian variational ansatz

AA Mele, GB Mbeng, GE Santoro, M Collura, P Torta - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
A large ongoing research effort focuses on variational quantum algorithms (VQAs),
representing leading candidates to achieve computational speed-ups on current quantum …

Barren plateaus in quantum tensor network optimization

EC Martín, K Plekhanov, M Lubasch - Quantum, 2023 - quantum-journal.org
We analyze the barren plateau phenomenon in the variational optimization of quantum
circuits inspired by matrix product states (qMPS), tree tensor networks (qTTN), and the …

[HTML][HTML] Classical shadows with noise

DE Koh, S Grewal - Quantum, 2022 - quantum-journal.org
The classical shadows protocol, recently introduced by Huang, Kueng, and Preskill [Nat.
Phys. 16, 1050 (2020)], is a quantum-classical protocol to estimate properties of an unknown …