Reference · 2017
Hardware-efficient variational quantum eigensolver for small molecules and quantum magnets
Kandala, A., Mezzacapo, A., Temme, K., Takita, M., Brink, M., Chow, J. M., & Gambetta, J. M. (2017). Hardware-efficient variational quantum eigensolver for small molecules and quantum magnets. Nature, 549, 242–246.
- Authors
- Abhinav Kandala; Antonio Mezzacapo; Kristan Temme; Maika Takita; Markus Brink; Jerry M. Chow; Jay M. Gambetta
- Venue
- Nature 549, 242–246
The experiment this library cites when it says hardware-efficient VQE has been run on small systems: LiH, BeH2, and a four-qubit Heisenberg model on a superconducting processor. The result is not a claim about industrially sized molecules.
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- Variational quantum eigensolveralgorithm
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