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Hardware-efficient VQE ansatz

Alternating native one-qubit rotations and entanglers reduce compilation overhead but can change trainability.

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Alternating native one-qubit rotations and entanglers reduce compilation overhead but can change trainability. This record separates the reusable method idea from any one molecule, Hamiltonian, optimizer, or device.

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  • Hardware-efficient ansatz Method

    Takes The Hamiltonian whose ground state is wanted, together with whatever structure is to be respected — particle number, spin, point-group symmetry, a reference determinant — and the connectivity and native gate set of the device the family has to run on. Returns A circuit family with a fixed structure and free real parameters, together with the number of those parameters — which is the size of the classical search problem handed to the next layer.

How it works

Alternating native one-qubit rotations and entanglers reduce compilation overhead but can change trainability. In a complete experiment, the method must be paired with a defined qubit Hamiltonian, reference state, parameterized circuit, measurement grouping, classical optimizer, stopping rule, and error analysis. The catalog therefore treats it as a literature-backed algorithm record rather than pretending that one generic snippet is the paper's implementation. Use the cited source to recover assumptions and compare energy error, variance, circuit resources, measurement cost, optimizer evaluations, and robustness under the same instance and budget.

Implementation
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vqe-hardware-efficient-ansatz.txt
METHOD: Hardware-efficient VQE ansatz
SCOPE: Alternating native one-qubit rotations and entanglers reduce compilation overhead but can change trainability.

This is a literature method record, not a fixed circuit.
Supply: Hamiltonian, reference state, ansatz, optimizer, measurement plan, and stopping rule.

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Quantum vs classical

Classical baseline

Compare Variational quantum eigensolver with the strongest classical method for the same instance, input budget, and output metric.

Quantum claim

This reference exposes a quantum circuit pattern; it does not imply an application-level speedup without a matched benchmark.

How to compare

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Literature & references
Hardware-efficient Variational Quantum Eigensolver for Small Molecules and Quantum Magnets2017 · Abhinav Kandala, Antonio Mezzacapo, Kristan Temme, Maika Takita, Markus Brink, Jerry M. Chow, Jay M. Gambetta

Primary or survey context for Hardware-efficient VQE ansatz; consult the paper for assumptions and implementation details.

arxiv.org/abs/1704.05018