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quant-ph2022★ 12 cited

Exploiting In-Constraint Energy in Constrained Variational Quantum Optimization

Tianyi Hao, Ruslan Shaydulin, Marco Pistoia +1

A central challenge of applying near-term quantum optimization algorithms to industrially relevant problems is the need to incorporate complex constraints. In general, such constra…

quant-ph2022★ 18 cited

Multi-Angle QAOA Does Not Always Need All Its Angles

Kaiyan Shi, Rebekah Herrman, Ruslan Shaydulin +3

Introducing additional tunable parameters to quantum circuits is a powerful way of improving performance without increasing hardware requirements. A recently introduced multiangle…

quant-ph2022★ 13 cited

Hardware-Conscious Optimization of the Quantum Toffoli Gate

Max Aksel Bowman, Pranav Gokhale, Jeffrey Larson +2

While quantum computing holds great potential in combinatorial optimization, electronic structure calculation, and number theory, the current era of quantum computing is limited by…

quant-ph2022★ 13 cited

Characterizing Error Mitigation by Symmetry Verification in QAOA

Ashish Kakkar, Jeffrey Larson, Alexey Galda +1

Hardware errors are a major obstacle to demonstrating quantum advantage with the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA). Recently, symmetry verification has been propose…

quant-ph2022★ 13 cited

Binary Control Pulse Optimization for Quantum Systems

Xinyu Fei, Lucas T. Brady, Jeffrey Larson +2

Quantum control aims to manipulate quantum systems toward specific quantum states or desired operations. Designing highly accurate and effective control steps is vitally important…

quant-ph2022★ 96 cited

Parameter Transfer for Quantum Approximate Optimization of Weighted MaxCut

Ruslan Shaydulin, Phillip C. Lotshaw, Jeffrey Larson +2

Finding high-quality parameters is a central obstacle to using the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA). Previous work partially addresses this issue for QAOA on unwei…