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20122022
most citedPennyLane: Automatic differentiation of hybrid quantum-classical computations

233 citations · 475 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

quant-ph2022

Growth reduction of similarity transformed electronic Hamiltonians in qubit space

Robert A. Lang, Aadithya Ganeshram, Artur F. Izmaylov

Accurately solving the electronic structure problem through the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is hindered by the available quantum resources of current and near-term device…

quant-ph2021★ 6 cited

Differentiable quantum computational chemistry with PennyLane

Juan Miguel Arrazola, Soran Jahangiri, Alain Delgado +15

This work describes the theoretical foundation for all quantum chemistry functionality in PennyLane, a quantum computing software library specializing in quantum differentiable pro…

quant-ph2021★ 53 cited

Analytic gradients in variational quantum algorithms: Algebraic extensions of the parameter-shift rule to general unitary transformations

Artur F. Izmaylov, Robert A. Lang, Tzu-Ching Yen

Optimization of unitary transformations in Variational Quantum Algorithms benefits highly from efficient evaluation of cost function gradients with respect to amplitudes of unitary…

quant-ph2020★ 46 cited

On the order problem in construction of unitary operators for the Variational Quantum Eigensolver

Artur F. Izmaylov, Manuel Díaz-Tinoco, Robert A. Lang

One of the main challenges in the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) framework is construction of the unitary transformation. The dimensionality of the space for unitary rotatio…

quant-ph2020★ 4 cited

Unitary transformation of the electronic Hamiltonian with an exact quadratic truncation of the Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff expansion

Robert A. Lang, Ilya G. Ryabinkin, Artur F. Izmaylov

Application of current and near-term quantum hardware to the electronic structure problem is highly limited by qubit counts, coherence times, and gate fidelities. To address these…

quant-ph2019

Unitary partitioning approach to the measurement problem in the Variational Quantum Eigensolver method

Artur F. Izmaylov, Tzu-Ching Yen, Robert A. Lang +1

To obtain estimates of electronic energies, the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) technique performs separate measurements for multiple parts of the system Hamiltonian. Current…