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Publications (6)

quant-ph2026

Performance Model for Hybrid Quantum-Classical Workflows

Pooja Rao, Dimitar Trenev, Jerome Gonthier +13

Hybrid quantum-classical workflows are expected to underpin practical quantum computing applications, yet the quantum and HPC communities lack a shared framework for reasoning abou…

quant-ph2024

Quantum-centric Supercomputing for Materials Science: A Perspective on Challenges and Future Directions

Yuri Alexeev, Maximilian Amsler, Paul Baity +124

Computational models are an essential tool for the design, characterization, and discovery of novel materials. Hard computational tasks in materials science stretch the limits of e…

quant-ph2025

Adiabatic state preparation from general initial states

Bryce Fuller, Mario Motta, Stuart M. Harwood +4

A variety of quantum computing algorithms exist for the preparation of approximate Hamiltonian ground states. A natural and important question is how these ground-state approximati…

quant-ph2025

Refining resource estimation for the quantum computation of vibrational molecular spectra through Trotter error analysis

Dimitar Trenev, Pauline J Ollitrault, Stuart M. Harwood +4

Accurate simulations of vibrational molecular spectra are expensive on conventional computers. Compared to the electronic structure problem, the vibrational structure problem with…

quant-ph2021

Improving the variational quantum eigensolver using variational adiabatic quantum computing

Stuart M. Harwood, Dimitar Trenev, Spencer T. Stober +4

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for finding the minimum eigenvalue of a Hamiltonian that involves the optimization of a parameteri…

physics.chem-ph2021

Considerations for evaluating thermodynamic properties with hybrid quantum-classical computing work-flows

Spencer T. Stober, Stuart M. Harwood, Donny Greenberg +3

Quantum chemistry applications on quantum computers currently rely heavily on the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithm. This hybrid quantum-classical algorithm aims at f…