Towards determining the presence of barren plateaus in some chemically inspired variational quantum algorithms

Abstract In quantum chemistry, the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is a promising algorithm for molecular simulations on near-term quantum computers. However, VQEs using hardware-efficient circuits face scaling challenges due to the barren plateau problem. This raises the question of whether c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rui Mao, Guojing Tian, Xiaoming Sun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-10-01
Series:Communications Physics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-024-01798-0