Quantum optimal control in quantum technologies. Strategic report on current status, visions and goals for research in Europe

CP Koch, U Boscain, T Calarco, G Dirr… - EPJ Quantum …, 2022 - epjqt.epj.org
Quantum optimal control, a toolbox for devising and implementing the shapes of external
fields that accomplish given tasks in the operation of a quantum device in the best way …

[HTML][HTML] The variational quantum eigensolver: a review of methods and best practices

J Tilly, H Chen, S Cao, D Picozzi, K Setia, Y Li, E Grant… - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
The variational quantum eigensolver (or VQE), first developed by Peruzzo et al.(2014), has
received significant attention from the research community in recent years. It uses the …

Variational quantum algorithms

M Cerezo, A Arrasmith, R Babbush… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Applications such as simulating complicated quantum systems or solving large-scale linear
algebra problems are very challenging for classical computers, owing to the extremely high …

A quantum computing view on unitary coupled cluster theory

A Anand, P Schleich, S Alperin-Lea… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
We present a review of the Unitary Coupled Cluster (UCC) ansatz and related ansätze
which are used to variationally solve the electronic structure problem on quantum …

Theory of overparametrization in quantum neural networks

M Larocca, N Ju, D García-Martín, PJ Coles… - Nature Computational …, 2023 - nature.com
The prospect of achieving quantum advantage with quantum neural networks (QNNs) is
exciting. Understanding how QNN properties (for example, the number of parameters M) …

Diagnosing barren plateaus with tools from quantum optimal control

M Larocca, P Czarnik, K Sharma, G Muraleedharan… - Quantum, 2022 - quantum-journal.org
Abstract Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) have received considerable attention due
to their potential for achieving near-term quantum advantage. However, more work is …

Qubit-excitation-based adaptive variational quantum eigensolver

YS Yordanov, V Armaos, CHW Barnes… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Molecular simulations with the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) are a promising
application for emerging noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers. Constructing …

From pulses to circuits and back again: A quantum optimal control perspective on variational quantum algorithms

AB Magann, C Arenz, MD Grace, TS Ho, RL Kosut… - PRX Quantum, 2021 - APS
The last decade has witnessed remarkable progress in the development of quantum
technologies. Although fault-tolerant devices likely remain years away, the noisy …

Building spatial symmetries into parameterized quantum circuits for faster training

F Sauvage, M Larocca, PJ Coles… - Quantum Science and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Practical success of quantum learning models hinges on having a suitable structure for the
parameterized quantum circuit. Such structure is defined both by the types of gates …

Provable bounds for noise-free expectation values computed from noisy samples

SV Barron, DJ Egger, E Pelofske, A Bärtschi… - Nature Computational …, 2024 - nature.com
Quantum computing has emerged as a powerful computational paradigm capable of solving
problems beyond the reach of classical computers. However, today's quantum computers …