Recent Developments and Perspectives in Variational Quantum Eigensolvers for Molecular Electronic Structure: Methods, Tradeoffs, and Benchmarking

Taylor Harville, Rishu Khurana, Vitor F. Grizzi +1

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm designed for noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) hardware to estimate eigenvalues of many-body…