no code implementations • 8 Dec 2020 • Ruslan Shaydulin, Stuart Hadfield, Tad Hogg, Ilya Safro
Our approach formalizes the connection between quantum symmetry properties of the QAOA dynamics and the group of classical symmetries of the objective function.
no code implementations • 8 Aug 2019 • Max Wilson, Sam Stromswold, Filip Wudarski, Stuart Hadfield, Norm M. Tubman, Eleanor Rieffel
Variational quantum algorithms, a class of quantum heuristics, are promising candidates for the demonstration of useful quantum computation.
no code implementations • 11 Sep 2017 • Stuart Hadfield, Zhihui Wang, Bryan O'Gorman, Eleanor G. Rieffel, Davide Venturelli, Rupak Biswas
The essence of this extension, the Quantum Alternating Operator Ansatz, is the consideration of general parametrized families of unitaries rather than only those corresponding to the time-evolution under a fixed local Hamiltonian for a time specified by the parameter.
Quantum Physics