collaborators

5 papers

quant-ph2025

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-ph2025

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-ph2025

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-ph2024

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…

quant-ph2024

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…