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20162026
most citedVariational-State Quantum Metrology

99 citations · 645 across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

quant-ph2026

Low-Resource Quantum Energy Gap Estimation via Randomization

Hugo Pages, Chusei Kiumi, Yuto Morohoshi +2

Estimating the energy spectra of quantum many-body systems is a fundamental task in quantum physics, with applications ranging from chemistry to condensed matter. Algorithmic shado…

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★ 8 cited

Myths around quantum computation before full fault tolerance: What no-go theorems rule out and what they don't

Zoltán Zimborás, Bálint Koczor, Zoë Holmes +19

In this perspective article, we revisit and critically evaluate prevailing viewpoints on the capabilities and limitations of near-term quantum computing and its potential transitio…

quant-ph2025

Snakes on a Plane: mobile, low dimensional logical qubits on a 2D surface

Adam Siegel, Zhenyu Cai, Hamza Jnane +4

Recent demonstrations indicate that silicon-spin QPUs will be able to shuttle physical qubits rapidly and with high fidelity - a desirable feature for maximising logical connectivi…

quant-ph2024★ 27 cited

Quantum Information Processing, Sensing and Communications: Their Myths, Realities and Futures

Lajos Hanzo, Zunaira Babar, Zhenyu Cai +6

The recent advances in quantum information processing, sensing and communications are surveyed with the objective of identifying the associated knowledge gaps and formulating a roa…

quant-ph2024★ 6 cited

TE-PAI: Exact Time Evolution by Sampling Random Circuits

Chusei Kiumi, Bálint Koczor

Simulating time evolution under quantum Hamiltonians is one of the most natural applications of quantum computers. We introduce TE-PAI, which simulates time evolution exactly by sa…

quant-ph2024

Preparing Ground and Excited States Using Adiabatic CoVaR

Wooseop Hwang, Bálint Koczor

CoVarince Root finding with classical shadows (CoVaR) was recently introduced as a new paradigm for training variational quantum circuits. Common approaches, such as variants of th…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Low Depth Phase Oracle Using a Parallel Piecewise Circuit

Zhu Sun, Gregory Boyd, Zhenyu Cai +7

We explore the important task of applying a phase to a computational basis state . The closely related task of rotating a target qubit by an angle…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Direct Estimation of the Density of States for Fermionic Systems

Matthew L. Goh, Bálint Koczor

Simulating time evolution is one of the most natural applications of quantum computers and is thus one of the most promising prospects for achieving practical quantum advantage. He…

quant-ph2024

High-Dimensional Subspace Expansion Using Classical Shadows

Gregory Boyd, Bálint Koczor, Zhenyu Cai

We introduce a post-processing technique for classical shadow measurement data that enhances the precision of ground state estimation through high-dimensional subspace expansion; t…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Biased Estimator Channels for Classical Shadows

Zhenyu Cai, Adrian Chapman, Hamza Jnane +1

Extracting classical information from quantum systems is of fundamental importance, and classical shadows allow us to extract a large amount of information using relatively few mea…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Distributed Simulation of Statevectors and Density Matrices

Tyson Jones, Bálint Koczor, Simon C. Benjamin

Classical simulation of quantum computers is an irreplaceable step in the design of quantum algorithms. Exponential simulation costs demand the use of high-performance computing te…

quant-ph2023★ 18 cited

Probabilistic Interpolation of Quantum Rotation Angles

Bálint Koczor, John Morton, Simon Benjamin

Quantum computing requires a universal set of gate operations; regarding gates as rotations, any rotation angle must be possible. However a real device may only be capable of b…

quant-ph2023★ 38 cited

Quantum Error Mitigated Classical Shadows

Hamza Jnane, Jonathan Steinberg, Zhenyu Cai +2

Classical shadows enable us to learn many properties of a quantum state with very few measurements. However, near-term and early fault-tolerant quantum computers will only be a…

quant-ph2023★ 11 cited

Can shallow quantum circuits scramble local noise into global white noise?

Jonathan Foldager, Bálint Koczor

Shallow quantum circuits are believed to be the most promising candidates for achieving early practical quantum advantage - this has motivated the development of a broad range of e…

quant-ph2022★ 13 cited

Algorithmic Shadow Spectroscopy

Hans Hon Sang Chan, Richard Meister, Matthew L. Goh +1

We present shadow spectroscopy as a simulator-agnostic quantum algorithm for estimating energy gaps using very few circuit repetitions (shots) and no extra resources (ancilla qubit…

quant-ph2022★ 27 cited

Training variational quantum circuits with CoVaR: covariance root finding with classical shadows

Gregory Boyd, Bálint Koczor

Exploiting near-term quantum computers and achieving practical value is a considerable and exciting challenge. Most prominent candidates as variational algorithms typically aim to…

quant-ph2022★ 66 cited

Multicore Quantum Computing

Hamza Jnane, Brennan Undseth, Zhenyu Cai +2

Any architecture for practical quantum computing must be scalable. An attractive approach is to create multiple cores, computing regions of fixed size that are well-spaced but inte…

quant-ph2021★ 57 cited

The Dominant Eigenvector of a Noisy Quantum State

Bálint Koczor

Although near-term quantum devices have no comprehensive solution for correcting errors, numerous techniques have been proposed for achieving practical value. Two works have recent…

quant-ph2020★ 15 cited

Fast computation of spherical phase-space functions of quantum many-body states

Bálint Koczor, Robert Zeier, Steffen J. Glaser

Quantum devices are preparing increasingly more complex entangled quantum states. How can one effectively study these states in light of their increasing dimensions? Phase spaces s…

quant-ph2020★ 52 cited

Quantum Analytic Descent

Bálint Koczor, Simon C. Benjamin

Variational algorithms have particular relevance for near-term quantum computers but require non-trivial parameter optimisations. Here we propose Analytic Descent: Given that the e…

quant-ph2020★ 57 cited

Measurement cost of metric-aware variational quantum algorithms

Barnaby van Straaten, Bálint Koczor

Variational quantum algorithms are promising tools for near-term quantum computers as their shallow circuits are robust to experimental imperfections. Their practical applicability…

quant-ph2019★ 51 cited

Quantum natural gradient generalised to noisy and non-unitary circuits

Bálint Koczor, Simon C. Benjamin

Variational quantum algorithms are promising tools whose efficacy depends on their optimisation method. For noise-free unitary circuits, the quantum generalisation of natural gradi…

quant-ph2019★ 99 cited

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…