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quant-ph2018★ 244 cited

Variational quantum simulation of general processes

Suguru Endo, Jinzhao Sun, Ying Li +2

Variational quantum algorithms have been proposed to solve static and dynamic problems of closed many-body quantum systems. Here we investigate variational quantum simulation of th…

quant-ph2018★ 455 cited

Theory of variational quantum simulation

Xiao Yuan, Suguru Endo, Qi Zhao +2

The variational method is a versatile tool for classical simulation of a variety of quantum systems. Great efforts have recently been devoted to its extension to quantum computing…

quant-ph2018★ 11 cited

A high threshold code for modular hardware with asymmetric noise

Xiaosi Xu, Qi Zhao, Xiao Yuan +1

We consider an approach to fault tolerant quantum computing based on a simple error detecting code operating as the substrate for a conventional surface code. We develop a customis…

quant-ph2018★ 100 cited

Digital quantum simulation of molecular vibrations

Sam McArdle, Alex Mayorov, Xiao Shan +2

Molecular vibrations underpin important phenomena such as spectral properties, energy transfer, and molecular bonding. However, obtaining a detailed understanding of the vibrationa…

quant-ph2018★ 54 cited

Robust quantum compilation and circuit optimisation via energy minimisation

Tyson Jones, Simon C Benjamin

We explore a method for automatically recompiling a quantum circuit A into a target circuit B, with the goal that both circuits have the same action on a specific input i.e. B|in>…

quant-ph2018★ 37 cited

Fault-tolerant protection of near-term trapped-ion topological qubits under realistic noise sources

A. Bermudez, X. Xu, M. Gutiérrez +2

The quest of demonstrating beneficial quantum error correction in near-term noisy quantum processors can benefit enormously from a low-resource optimization of fault-tolerant schem…

quant-ph2018★ 74 cited

Mitigating algorithmic errors in Hamiltonian simulation

Suguru Endo, Qi Zhao, Ying Li +2

Quantum computers can efficiently simulate many-body systems. As a widely used Hamiltonian simulation tool, the Trotter-Suzuki scheme splits the evolution into the number of Trotte…

quant-ph2018★ 1.6k cited

Quantum computational chemistry

Sam McArdle, Suguru Endo, Alan Aspuru-Guzik +2

One of the most promising suggested applications of quantum computing is solving classically intractable chemistry problems. This may help to answer unresolved questions about phen…

quant-ph2018★ 261 cited

Variational quantum algorithms for discovering Hamiltonian spectra

Suguru Endo, Tyson Jones, Sam McArdle +2

Calculating the energy spectrum of a quantum system is an important task, for example to analyse reaction rates in drug discovery and catalysis. There has been significant progress…

quant-ph2018★ 41 cited

Network architecture for a topological quantum computer in silicon

Brandon Buonacorsi, Zhenyu Cai, Eduardo B. Ramirez +7

A design for a large-scale surface code quantum processor based on a node/network approach is introduced for semiconductor quantum dot spin qubits. The minimal node contains only 7…

quant-ph2018★ 61 cited

Constructing Smaller Pauli Twirling Sets for Arbitrary Error Channels

Zhenyu Cai, Simon Benjamin

Twirling is a technique widely used for converting arbitrary noise channels into Pauli channels in error threshold estimations of quantum error correction codes. It is vitally usef…

quant-ph2018★ 251 cited

Error-mitigated digital quantum simulation

Sam McArdle, Xiao Yuan, Simon Benjamin

Variational algorithms may enable classically intractable simulations on near-future quantum computers. However, their potential is limited by hardware errors. It is therefore cruc…

quant-ph2018★ 555 cited

Variational ansatz-based quantum simulation of imaginary time evolution

Sam McArdle, Tyson Jones, Suguru Endo +3

Imaginary time evolution is a powerful tool for studying quantum systems. While it is possible to simulate with a classical computer, the time and memory requirements generally sca…

quant-ph2018★ 253 cited

QuEST and High Performance Simulation of Quantum Computers

Tyson Jones, Anna Brown, Ian Bush +1

We introduce QuEST, the Quantum Exact Simulation Toolkit, and compare it to ProjectQ, qHipster and a recent distributed implementation of Quantum++. QuEST is the first open source,…