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most citedChallenges and Opportunities in Quantum Optimization

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quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

Qiskit Machine Learning: an open-source library for quantum machine learning tasks at scale on quantum hardware and classical simulators

M. Emre Sahin, Edoardo Altamura, Oscar Wallis +6

We present Qiskit Machine Learning (ML), a high-level Python library that combines elements of quantum computing with traditional machine learning. The API abstracts Qiskit's primi…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Variational preparation of normal matrix product states on quantum computers

Ben Jaderberg, George Pennington, Kate V. Marshall +6

Preparing matrix product states (MPSs) on quantum computers is an essential routine in the simulation of many-body physics. However, widely-used schemes based on staircase circuits…

quant-ph2024

Evolving a multi-population evolutionary-QAOA on distributed QPUs

Francesca Schiavello, Edoardo Altamura, Ivano Tavernelli +2

Our work integrates an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) with the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) to optimize ansatz parameters in place of traditional gradient-based m…

quant-ph2024

Boosted Imaginary Time Evolution of Matrix Product States

Benjamin C. B. Symons, Dilhan Manawadu, David Galvin +1

In this work, we consider the imaginary time evolution of matrix product states. We present a novel quantum-inspired classical method that, when combined with time evolving block d…

quant-ph2024★ 13 cited

Efficient Parameter Optimisation for Quantum Kernel Alignment: A Sub-sampling Approach in Variational Training

M. Emre Sahin, Benjamin C. B. Symons, Pushpak Pati +5

Quantum machine learning with quantum kernels for classification problems is a growing area of research. Recently, quantum kernel alignment techniques that parameterise the kernel…

quant-ph2023★ 181 cited

Challenges and Opportunities in Quantum Optimization

Amira Abbas, Andris Ambainis, Brandon Augustino +43

Recent advances in quantum computers are demonstrating the ability to solve problems at a scale beyond brute force classical simulation. As such, a widespread interest in quantum a…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 1 cited

Toward Accurate Post-Born-Oppenheimer Molecular Simulations on Quantum Computers: An Adaptive Variational Eigensolver with Nuclear-Electronic Frozen Natural Orbitals

Anton Nykänen, Aaron Miller, Walter Talarico +11

Nuclear quantum effects such as zero-point energy and hydrogen tunnelling play a central role in many biological and chemical processes. The nuclear-electronic orbital (NEO) approa…

quant-ph2023

Nonadiabatic nuclear-electron dynamics: a quantum computing approach

Arseny Kovyrshin, Mårten Skogh, Lars Tornberg +6

The combined quantum electron-nuclear dynamics is often associated with the Born-Huang expansion of the molecular wave function and the appearance of nonadiabatic effects as a pert…

quant-ph2023

A Practitioner's Guide to Quantum Algorithms for Optimisation Problems

Benjamin C. B. Symons, David Galvin, Emre Sahin +2

Quantum computing is gaining popularity across a wide range of scientific disciplines due to its potential to solve long-standing computational problems that are considered intract…

quant-ph2023★ 12 cited

A Quantum Computing Implementation of Nuclear-Electronic Orbital (NEO) Theory: Towards an Exact pre-Born-Oppenheimer Formulation of Molecular Quantum Systems

Arseny Kovyrshin, Mårten Skogh, Anders Broo +4

Nuclear quantum phenomena beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation are known to play an important role in a growing number of chemical and biological processes. While there exists…

quant-ph2022★ 71 cited

Quantum Machine Learning Framework for Virtual Screening in Drug Discovery: a Prospective Quantum Advantage

Stefano Mensa, Emre Sahin, Francesco Tacchino +2

Machine Learning (ML) for Ligand Based Virtual Screening (LB-VS) is an important in-silico tool for discovering new drugs in a faster and cost-effective manner, especially for emer…