output
20172025
most citedQuantum Chemistry in the Age of Quantum Computing

1.5k citations

Showing 2018Show all

8 papers · 1 filter

quant-ph2018★ 1.5k cited

Quantum Chemistry in the Age of Quantum Computing

Yudong Cao, Jonathan Romero, Jonathan P. Olson +10

Practical challenges in simulating quantum systems on classical computers have been widely recognized in the quantum physics and quantum chemistry communities over the past century…

quant-ph2018★ 217 cited

Training of Quantum Circuits on a Hybrid Quantum Computer

D. Zhu, N. M. Linke, M. Benedetti +10

Generative modeling is a flavor of machine learning with applications ranging from computer vision to chemical design. It is expected to be one of the techniques most suited to tak…

quant-ph2018★ 17 cited

Classical simulation of quantum circuits by half Gauss sums

Kaifeng Bu, Dax Enshan Koh

We give an efficient algorithm to evaluate a certain class of exponential sums, namely the periodic, quadratic, multivariate half Gauss sums. We show that these exponential sums be…

quant-ph2018★ 233 cited

PennyLane: Automatic differentiation of hybrid quantum-classical computations

Ville Bergholm, Josh Izaac, Maria Schuld +65

PennyLane is a Python 3 software framework for differentiable programming of quantum computers. The library provides a unified architecture for near-term quantum computing devices,…

quant-ph2018★ 9 cited

A framework for algorithm deployment on cloud-based quantum computers

Sukin Sim, Yudong Cao, Jonathan Romero +2

In recent years, the field of quantum computing has significantly developed in both the improvement of hardware as well as the assembly of various software tools and platforms, inc…

quant-ph2018★ 10 cited

Variational Quantum Factoring

Eric R. Anschuetz, Jonathan P. Olson, Alán Aspuru-Guzik +1

Integer factorization has been one of the cornerstone applications of the field of quantum computing since the discovery of an efficient algorithm for factoring by Peter Shor. Unfo…

quant-ph2018★ 74 cited

How many qubits are needed for quantum computational supremacy?

Alexander M. Dalzell, Aram W. Harrow, Dax Enshan Koh +1

Quantum computational supremacy arguments, which describe a way for a quantum computer to perform a task that cannot also be done by a classical computer, typically require some so…

quant-ph2018★ 377 cited

A generative modeling approach for benchmarking and training shallow quantum circuits

Marcello Benedetti, Delfina Garcia-Pintos, Oscar Perdomo +3

Hybrid quantum-classical algorithms provide ways to use noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers for practical applications. Expanding the portfolio of such techniques, we propos…