On barren plateaus and cost function locality in variational quantum algorithms

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/ABFAC7MaRDI QIDQ5874151zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. V. Uvarov, Jacob Biamonte

Publication date 7 February 2023

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10530

zbMATH Keywords

quantum algorithmsvariational quantum eigensolverbarren plateausvanishing gradients

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics, structure of matter (82-XX) Quantum theory (81-XX)

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• Integration with respect to the Haar measure on unitary, orthogonal and symplectic group
• Local random quantum circuits are approximate polynomial-designs
• The theory of quantum information
• The theory of variational hybrid quantum-classical algorithms

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