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quant-ph2026

A hardware-efficient variational ansatz with an exact diagonal metric for real- and imaginary-time evolution and Haar sampling

Dario Picozzi

Variational quantum algorithms depend on the geometry of their parametrised circuits: metric-aware optimisation and time evolution require the Fubini-Study metric, which has hither…

quant-ph2026

Symmetry-adapted qubit encoding with complete active space and Bravyi--Kitaev mapping for quantum chemistry on a quantum computer

Dario Picozzi, Jonathan Tennyson

We present a symmetry-adapted qubit encoding with complete active space (SAE-CAS) for quantum chemistry on fault-tolerant and near-term quantum processors. Building on exact-symmet…

quant-ph2026

Periodic Symmetry-Adapted Encoding: Qubit Reduction in Crystalline Electronic Structure

Dario Picozzi

We introduce periodic symmetry-adapted encoding (SAE) for qubit-efficient simulations of crystalline materials, extending the molecular SAE framework developed in earlier work to p…

quant-ph2025

Electron-molecule scattering via R-matrix variational algorithms on a quantum computer

Dario Picozzi, Jonathan Tennyson, Vincent Graves +1

Electron-molecule collisions play a central role in both natural processes and modern technological applications, particularly in plasma processing. Conventional computational stra…

quant-ph2024

Pascal's pyramid and number projection operators for quantum computation

Dario Picozzi

The pursuit of quantum advantage in simulating many-body quantum systems on quantum computers has gained momentum with advancements in quantum hardware. This work focuses on levera…

quant-ph2021★ 1.1k cited

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver: a review of methods and best practices

Jules Tilly, Hongxiang Chen, Shuxiang Cao +8

The variational quantum eigensolver (or VQE) uses the variational principle to compute the ground state energy of a Hamiltonian, a problem that is central to quantum chemistry and…