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most citedEfficient calculation of gradients in classical simulations of variational quantum algorithms

23 citations · 26 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for

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quant-ph20203 cited

Efficient classical calculation of the Quantum Natural Gradient

Tyson Jones

Quantum natural gradient has emerged as a superior minimisation technique in quantum variational algorithms. Classically simulating the algorithm running on near-future quantum har…

quant-ph202023 cited

Efficient calculation of gradients in classical simulations of variational quantum algorithms

Tyson Jones, Julien Gacon

Calculating the energy gradient in parameter space has become an almost ubiquitous subroutine of variational near-term quantum algorithms. "Faithful" classical emulation of this su…

quant-ph2019

QuESTlink -- Mathematica embiggened by a hardware-optimised quantum emulator

Tyson Jones, Simon C Benjamin

We introduce QuESTlink, pronounced "quest link", an open-source Mathematica package which efficiently emulates quantum computers. By integrating with the Quantum Exact Simulation T…

quant-ph2019

Variational-State Quantum Metrology

Bálint Koczor, Suguru Endo, Tyson Jones +2

Quantum technologies exploit entanglement to enhance various tasks beyond their classical limits including computation, communication and measurements. Quantum metrology aims to in…

quant-ph2018

Variational quantum algorithms for discovering Hamiltonian spectra

Suguru Endo, Tyson Jones, Sam McArdle +2

Calculating the energy spectrum of a quantum system is an important task, for example to analyse reaction rates in drug discovery and catalysis. There has been significant progress…

quant-ph2018

Variational ansatz-based quantum simulation of imaginary time evolution

Sam McArdle, Tyson Jones, Suguru Endo +3

Imaginary time evolution is a powerful tool for studying quantum systems. While it is possible to simulate with a classical computer, the time and memory requirements generally sca…