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quant-ph2018★ 701 cited
Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm: Performance, Mechanism, and Implementation on Near-Term Devices
Leo Zhou, Sheng-Tao Wang, Soonwon Choi +2
The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is a hybrid quantum-classical variational algorithm designed to tackle combinatorial optimization problems. Despite its promis…
quant-ph2018★ 3 cited
Computational complexity of the Rydberg blockade in two dimensions
Hannes Pichler, Sheng-Tao Wang, Leo Zhou +2
We discuss the computational complexity of finding the ground state of the two-dimensional array of quantum bits that interact via strong van der Waals interactions. Specifically,…
quant-ph2018★ 14 cited
Hamiltonian sparsification and gap-simulations
Dorit Aharonov, Leo Zhou
Analog quantum simulations---simulations of one Hamiltonian by another---is one of the major goals in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum computation (NISQ) era, and has many appl…