



01191nas a2200145   4500008004100000245004800041210004800089260001400137490000800151520079000159100001800949700001900967700002200986856003701008       2019                        eng d00aAccelerated Variational Quantum Eigensolver0 aAccelerated Variational Quantum Eigensolver  c3/25/20190 v1223 a<p>The problem of finding the ground state energy of a Hamiltonian using a quantum computer is currently solved using either the quantum phase estimation (QPE) or variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithms. For precision ε, QPE requires O(1) repetitions of circuits with depth O(1/ε), whereas each expectation estimation subroutine within VQE requires O(1/ε2) samples from circuits with depth O(1). We propose a generalised VQE algorithm that interpolates between these two regimes via a free parameter α&isin;[0,1] which can exploit quantum coherence over a circuit depth of O(1/εα) to reduce the number of samples to O(1/ε2(1&minus;α)). Along the way, we give a new routine for expectation estimation under limited quantum resources that is of independent interest.</p>1 aWang, Daochen1 aHiggott, Oscar1 aBrierley, Stephen  uhttps://arxiv.org/abs/1802.0017101313nas a2200145   4500008004100000245005400041210005400095260001500149490000600164520090100170100001901071700001801090700002201108856003701130       2019                        eng d00aVariational Quantum Computation of Excited States0 aVariational Quantum Computation of Excited States  c06/28/20190 v33 a<p>The calculation of excited state energies of electronic structure Hamiltonians has many important applications, such as the calculation of optical spectra and reaction rates. While low-depth quantum algorithms, such as the variational quantum eigenvalue solver (VQE), have been used to determine ground state energies, methods for calculating excited states currently involve the implementation of high-depth controlled-unitaries or a large number of additional samples. Here we show how overlap estimation can be used to deflate eigenstates once they are found, enabling the calculation of excited state energies and their degeneracies. We propose an implementation that requires the same number of qubits as VQE and at most twice the circuit depth. Our method is robust to control errors, is compatible with error-mitigation strategies and can be implemented on near-term quantum compute</p>1 aHiggott, Oscar1 aWang, Daochen1 aBrierley, Stephen  uhttps://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08138