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20162026
most citedQuantum Approximate Optimization of Non-Planar Graph Problems on a Planar Superconducting Processor

469 citations · 896 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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32 papers

quant-ph2026

Efficient Block Encodings for Ensembles of Molecular Hamiltonians

Cristian L. Cortes, Andrew J. Jenkins, William Pol +8

Accurately characterizing molecular properties and reactivity often requires electronic-structure calculations across an ensemble of molecular geometries. Quantum algorithms that p…

quant-ph2026

Benchmarking a randomized quantum algorithm for estimating expectation values of molecular observables

Anna Schroeder, Gian-Luca R. Anselmetti, Matthias Degroote +5

Randomized quantum algorithms for the estimation of expectation values of molecular observables offer a promising route to early fault-tolerant quantum advantage by trading circuit…

quant-ph2025

Improving the runtime of quantum phase estimation for chemistry through basis set optimization

Pauline J. Ollitrault, Jerome F. Gonthier, Dario Rocca +5

Quantum phase estimation (QPE) is a promising quantum algorithm for obtaining molecular ground-state energies with chemical accuracy. However, its computational cost, dominated by…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Fullqubit alchemist: Quantum algorithm for alchemical free energy calculations

Po-Wei Huang, Gregory Boyd, Gian-Luca R. Anselmetti +11

Accurately computing the free energies of biological processes is a cornerstone of computer-aided drug design, but it is a daunting task. The need to sample vast conformational spa…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Dividing and Conquering the Van Vleck Catastrophe

Sophia Simon, Gian-Luca R. Anselmetti, Raffaele Santagati +4

The quantum-computational cost of determining ground state energies through quantum phase estimation depends on the overlap between an easily preparable initial state and the targe…

quant-ph2025★ 15 cited

Faster quantum chemistry simulations on a quantum computer with improved tensor factorization and active volume compilation

Athena Caesura, Cristian L. Cortes, William Pol +8

Electronic structure calculations of molecular systems are among the most promising applications for fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC) in quantum chemistry and drug design. H…

quant-ph2024

Classical optimisation of reduced density matrix estimations with classical shadows using N-representability conditions under shot noise considerations

Gian-Luca R. Anselmetti, Matthias Degroote, Nikolaj Moll +2

Classical shadow tomography has become a powerful tool in learning about quantum states prepared on a quantum computer. Recent works have used classical shadows to variationally en…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Enhancing initial state overlap through orbital optimization for faster molecular electronic ground-state energy estimation

Pauline J. Ollitrault, Cristian L. Cortes, Jerome F. Gonthier +7

The quantum phase estimation algorithm stands as the primary method for determining the ground state energy of a molecular electronic Hamiltonian on a quantum computer. In this con…

quant-ph2024★ 24 cited

Reducing the runtime of fault-tolerant quantum simulations in chemistry through symmetry-compressed double factorization

Dario Rocca, Cristian L. Cortes, Jerome Gonthier +7

Quantum phase estimation based on qubitization is the state-of-the-art fault-tolerant quantum algorithm for computing ground-state energies in chemical applications. In this contex…

quant-ph2024

Assessing the query complexity limits of quantum phase estimation using symmetry aware spectral bounds

Cristian L. Cortes, Dario Rocca, Jerome Gonthier +7

The computational cost of quantum algorithms for physics and chemistry is closely linked to the spectrum of the Hamiltonian, a property that manifests in the necessary rescaling of…

quant-ph2024

Amplified Amplitude Estimation: Exploiting Prior Knowledge to Improve Estimates of Expectation Values

Sophia Simon, Matthias Degroote, Nikolaj Moll +3

We provide a method for estimating the expectation value of an operator that can utilize prior knowledge to accelerate the learning process on a quantum computer. Specifically, sup…

quant-ph2023★ 7 cited

Estimation of electrostatic interaction energies on a trapped-ion quantum computer

Pauline J. Ollitrault, Matthias Loipersberger, Robert M. Parrish +12

We present the first hardware implementation of electrostatic interaction energies using a trapped-ion quantum computer. As test system for our computation, we focus on the reducti…

quant-ph2023★ 2 cited

Classical and quantum cost of measurement strategies for quantum-enhanced auxiliary field Quantum Monte Carlo

Matthew Kiser, Anna Schroeder, Gian-Luca R. Anselmetti +4

Quantum-enhanced auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo (QC-AFQMC) uses output from a quantum computer to increase the accuracy of its classical counterpart. The algorithm requires th…

quant-ph2023★ 7 cited

Improved precision scaling for simulating coupled quantum-classical dynamics

Sophia Simon, Raffaele Santagati, Matthias Degroote +3

We present a super-polynomial improvement in the precision scaling of quantum simulations for coupled classical-quantum systems in this paper. Such systems are found, for example,…

quant-ph2023★ 3 cited

Fault-tolerant quantum algorithm for symmetry-adapted perturbation theory

Cristian L. Cortes, Matthias Loipersberger, Robert M. Parrish +9

The efficient computation of observables beyond the total energy is a key challenge and opportunity for fault-tolerant quantum computing approaches in quantum chemistry. Here we co…

quant-ph2023★ 16 cited

Fault-tolerant quantum computation of molecular observables

Mark Steudtner, Sam Morley-Short, William Pol +8

Over the past three decades significant reductions have been made to the cost of estimating ground-state energies of molecular Hamiltonians with quantum computers. However, compara…

quant-ph2023★ 5 cited

Quantum-enhanced quantum Monte Carlo: an industrial view

Maximilian Amsler, Peter Deglmann, Matthias Degroote +10

In this work, we test a recently developed method to enhance classical auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) calculations with quantum computers against examples from chemist…

quant-ph2023★ 127 cited

Drug design on quantum computers

Raffaele Santagati, Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Ryan Babbush +12

Quantum computers promise to impact industrial applications, for which quantum chemical calculations are required, by virtue of their high accuracy. This perspective explores the c…

quant-ph2022★ 2 cited

Interaction Energies on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Computers

Matthias Loipersberger, Fionn D. Malone, Alicia R. Welden +7

The computation of interaction energies on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers appears to be challenging with straightforward application of existing quantum algorith…

quant-ph2021★ 51 cited

Efficient quantum computation of molecular forces and other energy gradients

Thomas E. O'Brien, Michael Streif, Nicholas C. Rubin +12

While most work on the quantum simulation of chemistry has focused on computing energy surfaces, a similarly important application requiring subtly different algorithms is the comp…

quant-ph2021★ 1 cited

Towards the Simulation of Large Scale Protein-Ligand Interactions on NISQ-era Quantum Computers

Fionn D. Malone, Robert M. Parrish, Alicia R. Welden +6

We explore the use of symmetry-adapted perturbation theory (SAPT) as a simple and efficient means to compute interaction energies between large molecular systems with a hybrid meth…

quant-ph2021

Multi-car paint shop optimization with quantum annealing

Sheir Yarkoni, Alex Alekseyenko, Michael Streif +3

We present a generalization of the binary paint shop problem (BPSP) to tackle an automotive industry application, the multi-car paint shop (MCPS) problem. The objective of the opti…

quant-ph2020★ 33 cited

Quantum algorithms with local particle number conservation: noise effects and error correction

Michael Streif, Martin Leib, Filip Wudarski +2

Quantum circuits with local particle number conservation (LPNC) restrict the quantum computation to a subspace of the Hilbert space of the qubit register. In a noiseless or fault-t…

quant-ph2020★ 45 cited

Beating classical heuristics for the binary paint shop problem with the quantum approximate optimization algorithm

Michael Streif, Sheir Yarkoni, Andrea Skolik +2

The binary paint shop problem (BPSP) is an APX-hard optimization problem of the automotive industry. In this work, we show how to use the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm…