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most citedThe theory of variational hybrid quantum-classical algorithms

2.2k citations · 4.9k across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

quant-ph2020★ 57 cited

Adaptive pruning-based optimization of parameterized quantum circuits

Sukin Sim, Jonathan Romero, Jerome F. Gonthier +1

Variational hybrid quantum-classical algorithms are powerful tools to maximize the use of Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum devices. While past studies have developed powerful and e…

quant-ph2020★ 26 cited

Noise robustness and experimental demonstration of a quantum generative adversarial network for continuous distributions

Abhinav Anand, Jonathan Romero, Matthias Degroote +1

The potential advantage of machine learning in quantum computers is a topic of intense discussion in the literature. Theoretical, numerical and experimental explorations will most…

quant-ph2020★ 26 cited

An application benchmark for fermionic quantum simulations

Pierre-Luc Dallaire-Demers, Michał Stęchły, Jerome F. Gonthier +3

It is expected that the simulation of correlated fermions in chemistry and material science will be one of the first practical applications of quantum processors. Given the rapid e…

quant-ph2019★ 9 cited

Variational quantum generators: Generative adversarial quantum machine learning for continuous distributions

Jonathan Romero, Alan Aspuru-Guzik

We propose a hybrid quantum-classical approach to model continuous classical probability distributions using a variational quantum circuit. The architecture of the variational circ…

quant-ph2018★ 1.5k cited

Quantum Chemistry in the Age of Quantum Computing

Yudong Cao, Jonathan Romero, Jonathan P. Olson +10

Practical challenges in simulating quantum systems on classical computers have been widely recognized in the quantum physics and quantum chemistry communities over the past century…

quant-ph2018★ 9 cited

A framework for algorithm deployment on cloud-based quantum computers

Sukin Sim, Yudong Cao, Jonathan Romero +2

In recent years, the field of quantum computing has significantly developed in both the improvement of hardware as well as the assembly of various software tools and platforms, inc…

quant-ph2018★ 446 cited

Quantum chemistry calculations on a trapped-ion quantum simulator

Cornelius Hempel, Christine Maier, Jonathan Romero +10

Quantum-classical hybrid algorithms are emerging as promising candidates for near-term practical applications of quantum information processors in a wide variety of fields ranging…

quant-ph2018★ 5 cited

Low-depth circuit ansatz for preparing correlated fermionic states on a quantum computer

Pierre-Luc Dallaire-Demers, Jonathan Romero, Libor Veis +2

Quantum simulations are bound to be one of the main applications of near-term quantum computers. Quantum chemistry and condensed matter physics are expected to benefit from these t…

quant-ph2017★ 28 cited

QVECTOR: an algorithm for device-tailored quantum error correction

Peter D. Johnson, Jonathan Romero, Jonathan Olson +2

Current approaches to fault-tolerant quantum computation will not enable useful quantum computation on near-term devices of 50 to 100 qubits. Leading proposals, such as the color c…

quant-ph2017★ 18 cited

Quantum Information and Computation for Chemistry

Jonathan Olson, Yudong Cao, Jonathan Romero +7

The NSF Workshop in Quantum Information and Computation for Chemistry assembled experts from directly quantum-oriented fields such as algorithms, chemistry, machine learning, optic…

quant-ph2017

Strategies for quantum computing molecular energies using the unitary coupled cluster ansatz

Jonathan Romero, Ryan Babbush, Jarrod R. McClean +3

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithm combines the ability of quantum computers to efficiently compute expectation values with a classical optimization routine in ord…

quant-ph2016★ 504 cited

Quantum autoencoders for efficient compression of quantum data

Jonathan Romero, Jonathan P. Olson, Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Classical autoencoders are neural networks that can learn efficient low dimensional representations of data in higher dimensional space. The task of an autoencoder is, given an inp…

quant-ph2015★ 2.2k cited

The theory of variational hybrid quantum-classical algorithms

Jarrod R. McClean, Jonathan Romero, Ryan Babbush +1

Many quantum algorithms have daunting resource requirements when compared to what is available today. To address this discrepancy, a quantum-classical hybrid optimization scheme kn…