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20202026
most citedDoes provable absence of barren plateaus imply classical simulability?

78 citations · 294 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

quant-ph2026

Quantum error mitigation from information dynamics

Philippe Suchsland, Thomas Schuster, Manuel S. Rudolph +3

Overcoming experimental errors is a central challenge in quantum science. This challenge is particularly acute in large and complex quantum circuits, where quantum information spre…

quant-ph2026

Observable Estimation in the Absence of Classical Verification

Samantha V. Barron, Bradley Mitchell, Vinay Tripathi +45

The predictive success of quantum mechanics underpins many areas of modern science, even as the exact simulation of large, interacting quantum systems remains beyond the reach of c…

quant-ph2026

Precision quantum simulation of magnon spectra and interactions

Trond I. Andersen, Nikita Astrakhantsev, Jeronimo Martinez +329

Quantum simulation promises to advance materials discovery by accurately simulating complex states of matter, their microscopic excitations, and macroscopic response functions. The…

quant-ph2024★ 23 cited

Classically estimating observables of noiseless quantum circuits

Armando Angrisani, Alexander Schmidhuber, Manuel S. Rudolph +3

We present a classical algorithm based on Pauli propagation for estimating expectation values of arbitrary observables on random unstructured quantum circuits across all circuit ar…

quant-ph2024★ 21 cited

Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks are Effectively Classically Simulable

Pablo Bermejo, Paolo Braccia, Manuel S. Rudolph +3

Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks (QCNNs) are widely regarded as a promising model for Quantum Machine Learning (QML). In this work we tie their heuristic success to two facts.…

quant-ph2024

A Search for Classical Subsystems in Quantum Worlds

Arsalan Adil, Manuel S. Rudolph, Andrew Arrasmith +3

Decoherence and einselection have been effective in explaining several features of an emergent classical world from an underlying quantum theory. However, the theory assumes a part…

quant-ph2023★ 78 cited

Does provable absence of barren plateaus imply classical simulability?

M. Cerezo, Martin Larocca, Diego García-Martín +9

A large amount of effort has recently been put into understanding the barren plateau phenomenon. In this perspective article, we face the increasingly loud elephant in the room and…

quant-ph2023★ 7 cited

Classical surrogate simulation of quantum systems with LOWESA

Manuel S. Rudolph, Enrico Fontana, Zoë Holmes +1

We introduce LOWESA as a classical algorithm for faithfully simulating quantum systems via a classically constructed surrogate expectation landscape. After an initial overhead to b…

quant-ph2023★ 5 cited

Classical simulations of noisy variational quantum circuits

Enrico Fontana, Manuel S. Rudolph, Ross Duncan +2

Noise detrimentally affects quantum computations so that they not only become less accurate but also easier to simulate classically as systems scale up. We construct a classical si…

quant-ph2023★ 5 cited

Connecting the Hamiltonian structure to the QAOA energy and Fourier landscape structure

Michał Stęchły, Lanruo Gao, Boniface Yogendran +2

In this paper, we aim to expand the understanding of the relationship between the composition of the Hamiltonian in the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) and the co…

quant-ph2023★ 41 cited

Trainability barriers and opportunities in quantum generative modeling

Manuel S. Rudolph, Sacha Lerch, Supanut Thanasilp +5

Quantum generative models provide inherently efficient sampling strategies and thus show promise for achieving an advantage using quantum hardware. In this work, we investigate the…

quant-ph2023★ 8 cited

The power and limitations of learning quantum dynamics incoherently

Sofiene Jerbi, Joe Gibbs, Manuel S. Rudolph +4

Quantum process learning is emerging as an important tool to study quantum systems. While studied extensively in coherent frameworks, where the target and model system can share qu…

quant-ph2023★ 19 cited

Data re-uploading with a single qudit

Noah L. Wach, Manuel S. Rudolph, Fred Jendrzejewski +1

Quantum two-level systems, i.e. qubits, form the basis for most quantum machine learning approaches that have been proposed throughout the years. However, higher dimensional quantu…

quant-ph2022★ 2 cited

Qubit seriation: Improving data-model alignment using spectral ordering

Atithi Acharya, Manuel Rudolph, Jing Chen +2

With the advent of quantum and quantum-inspired machine learning, adapting the structure of learning models to match the structure of target datasets has been shown to be crucial f…

quant-ph2022★ 9 cited

Decomposition of Matrix Product States into Shallow Quantum Circuits

Manuel S. Rudolph, Jing Chen, Jacob Miller +2

The rapid pace of recent advancements in numerical computation, notably the rise of GPU and TPU hardware accelerators, have allowed tensor network (TN) algorithms to scale to even…

quant-ph2022★ 65 cited

Synergy Between Quantum Circuits and Tensor Networks: Short-cutting the Race to Practical Quantum Advantage

Manuel S. Rudolph, Jacob Miller, Danial Motlagh +3

While recent breakthroughs have proven the ability of noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices to achieve quantum advantage in classically-intractable sampling tasks, the us…

quant-ph2021★ 1 cited

ORQVIZ: Visualizing High-Dimensional Landscapes in Variational Quantum Algorithms

Manuel S. Rudolph, Sukin Sim, Asad Raza +5

Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) are promising candidates for finding practical applications of near to mid-term quantum computers. There has been an increasing effort to stud…

quant-ph2020★ 10 cited

Generation of High-Resolution Handwritten Digits with an Ion-Trap Quantum Computer

Manuel S. Rudolph, Ntwali Bashige Toussaint, Amara Katabarwa +3

Generating high-quality data (e.g. images or video) is one of the most exciting and challenging frontiers in unsupervised machine learning. Utilizing quantum computers in such task…