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most citedThe Variational Quantum Eigensolver: a review of methods and best practices

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quant-ph2021★ 1.1k cited

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver: a review of methods and best practices

Jules Tilly, Hongxiang Chen, Shuxiang Cao +8

The variational quantum eigensolver (or VQE) uses the variational principle to compute the ground state energy of a Hamiltonian, a problem that is central to quantum chemistry and…

quant-ph2021★ 59 cited

Reduced Density Matrix Sampling: Self-consistent Embedding and Multiscale Electronic Structure on Current Generation Quantum Computers

Jules Tilly, P. V. Sriluckshmy, Akashkumar Patel +6

We investigate fully self-consistent multiscale quantum-classical algorithms on current generation superconducting quantum computers, in a unified approach to tackle the correlated…

quant-ph2020★ 39 cited

Computation of molecular excited states on IBM quantum computers using a discriminative variational quantum eigensolver

Jules Tilly, Glenn Jones, Hongxiang Chen +2

Solving for molecular excited states remains one of the key challenges of modern quantum chemistry. Traditional methods are constrained by existing computational capabilities, limi…

quant-ph2019★ 1 cited

Machine learning logical gates for quantum error correction

Hongxiang Chen, Michael Vasmer, Nikolas P. Breuckmann +1

Quantum error correcting codes protect quantum computation from errors caused by decoherence and other noise. Here we study the problem of designing logical operations for quantum…

quant-ph2019★ 30 cited

Cost function embedding and dataset encoding for machine learning with parameterized quantum circuits

Shuxiang Cao, Leonard Wossnig, Brian Vlastakis +2

Machine learning is seen as a promising application of quantum computation. For near-term noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices, parametrized quantum circuits (PQCs) have…

quant-ph2019★ 50 cited

Dynamical mean field theory algorithm and experiment on quantum computers

I. Rungger, N. Fitzpatrick, H. Chen +12

The developments of quantum computing algorithms and experiments for atomic scale simulations have largely focused on quantum chemistry for molecules, while their application in co…

quant-ph2019★ 209 cited

Structure optimization for parameterized quantum circuits

Mateusz Ostaszewski, Edward Grant, Marcello Benedetti

We propose an efficient method for simultaneously optimizing both the structure and parameter values of quantum circuits with only a small computational overhead. Shallow circuits…

quant-ph2019★ 393 cited

An initialization strategy for addressing barren plateaus in parametrized quantum circuits

Edward Grant, Leonard Wossnig, Mateusz Ostaszewski +1

Parametrized quantum circuits initialized with random initial parameter values are characterized by barren plateaus where the gradient becomes exponentially small in the number of…

quant-ph2018★ 72 cited

Modelling Non-Markovian Quantum Processes with Recurrent Neural Networks

Leonardo Banchi, Edward Grant, Andrea Rocchetto +1

Quantum systems interacting with an unknown environment are notoriously difficult to model, especially in presence of non-Markovian and non-perturbative effects. Here we introduce…

quant-ph2018★ 80 cited

Adversarial quantum circuit learning for pure state approximation

Marcello Benedetti, Edward Grant, Leonard Wossnig +1

Adversarial learning is one of the most successful approaches to modelling high-dimensional probability distributions from data. The quantum computing community has recently begun…

quant-ph2018★ 317 cited

Hierarchical quantum classifiers

Edward Grant, Marcello Benedetti, Shuxiang Cao +5

Quantum circuits with hierarchical structure have been used to perform binary classification of classical data encoded in a quantum state. We demonstrate that more expressive circu…

cs.NE2017★ 6 cited

Compact Neural Networks based on the Multiscale Entanglement Renormalization Ansatz

Andrew Hallam, Edward Grant, Vid Stojevic +2

This paper demonstrates a method for tensorizing neural networks based upon an efficient way of approximating scale invariant quantum states, the Multi-scale Entanglement Renormali…

quant-ph2017★ 76 cited

Learning hard quantum distributions with variational autoencoders

Andrea Rocchetto, Edward Grant, Sergii Strelchuk +2

Studying general quantum many-body systems is one of the major challenges in modern physics because it requires an amount of computational resources that scales exponentially with…