Variational Quantum Algorithms

Presentations

• Co-Designed Adaptive Quantum State Preparation Protocols

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 8:00 AM – March 18, 2026, 8:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Mafalda Ramoa

    • Virginia Tech

  Authors

  • Mafalda Ramoa

    • Virginia Tech

  • Sophia Economou

  • Edwin Barnes

    • Virginia Tech

  • Luis Santos

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• Measurement reduction and Hamiltonian trimming for the contextual subspace variational quantum eigensolver

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 8:12 AM – March 18, 2026, 8:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Basie Seibert

    • University of New Mexico

  Authors

  • Basie Seibert

    • University of New Mexico

  • Qingfeng Wang

  • Peter Love

    • Tufts University

  • Akimasa Miyake

    • University of New Mexico

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• Contextual Subspace Quantum Simulation with Optimized Transpilation on a Trapped-Ion Quantum Computer

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 8:24 AM – March 18, 2026, 8:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Qingfeng Wang

    • Tufts University

  Authors

  • Qingfeng Wang

    • Tufts University

  • Alexis Ralli

  • Liudmila Zhukas

    • Duke University

  • Basie Seibert

    • University of New Mexico

  • Akimasa Miyake

    • University of New Mexico

  • Peter Love

    • Tufts University

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• Exploiting biased noise in variational quantum models

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 8:36 AM – March 18, 2026, 8:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Connor van Rossum

    • University of Queensland

  Authors

  • Connor van Rossum

    • University of Queensland

  • Riddhi Swaroop Gupta

    • The University of Queensland

  • Sally Shrapnel

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• Variational Quantum Algorithms with Tunable Classical Optimization Costs

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 8:48 AM – March 18, 2026, 9:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Dominic Messina

    • Wayne State University

  Authors

  • Dominic Messina

    • Wayne State University

  • Helen Durand

    • Wayne State University

  • Alicia Magann

  • Mohan Sarovar

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• Variational Spacetime Simulation of the 1D Burgers Equation

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 9:00 AM – March 18, 2026, 9:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Quang Nguyen

    • Florida State University

  Authors

  • Quang Nguyen

    • Florida State University

  • Mohammad Akash

  • Turag Dev

  • Kourosh Shoele

    • Florida State University

  • Huixuan Wu

    • Florida State University

  • Yanzhu Chen

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• Variational Quantum Algorithm for Conditional Thermal State Generation

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 9:12 AM – March 18, 2026, 9:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Shou-I Tang

    • University of Massachusetts Boston

  Authors

  • Shou-I Tang

    • University of Massachusetts Boston

  • Emery Doucet

    • University of Massachusetts Boston

  • Sebastian Deffner

    • UMBC

  • Akira Sone

    • University of Massachusetts Boston

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• Accelerating large-scale linear algebra using variational quantum imaginary time evolution

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 9:24 AM – March 18, 2026, 9:36 AM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.13128

  Presenters

  • Daiwei Zhu

    • IonQ

  Authors

  • Daiwei Zhu

    • IonQ

  • Willie Aboumrad

  • Claudio Girotto

  • Francois-Henry Rouet

  • Jezer Jojo

  • Robert Lucas

  • Jay Pathak

  • Ananth Kaushik

    • IonQ

  • Martin Roetteler

    • Microsoft Corp

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• Nathan Wiebe

  Invited-In-person · Invited · Withdrawn

  March 18, 2026, 9:36 AM – March 18, 2026, 10:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Nathan Wiebe

  Authors

  • Nathan Wiebe

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• Convergence and schedule optimization of multi-channel quantum Zeno dragging with application to k-SAT problems, part I

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 10:12 AM – March 18, 2026, 10:24 AM

  Publication: arXiv preprint: 2507.16128

  Presenters

  • Yipei Zhang

    • University of California, Berkeley

  Authors

  • Yipei Zhang

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Alain Sarlette

  • Philippe Lewalle

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Tathagata Karmakar

    • University of Rochester

  • Birgitta Whaley

    • University of California, Berkeley

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• Convergence and schedule optimization of multi-channel quantum Zeno dragging with application to k-SAT problems, part II

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 10:24 AM – March 18, 2026, 10:36 AM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.16128

  Presenters

  • Tathagata Karmakar

    • University of Rochester

  Authors

  • Tathagata Karmakar

    • University of Rochester

  • Yipei Zhang

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Alain Sarlette

  • Philippe Lewalle

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Birgitta Whaley

    • University of California, Berkeley

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• A kinetic-energy augmented VQE for high-fidelity, shallow-depth state preparation

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 10:36 AM – March 18, 2026, 10:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Rimika Jaiswal

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  Authors

  • Rimika Jaiswal

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Murphy Yuezhen Niu

    • University of Maryland College Park

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• TIMES-ADAPT: A Quantum Algorithm for real-time evolution in low-energy subspaces using fixed-depth circuits

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 10:48 AM – March 18, 2026, 11:00 AM

  Publication: B. Sambasivam, K. Sherbert, K. Shirali, N. J. Mayhall, E. Barnes, S. E. Economou, "TIMES-ADAPT: A Quantum algorithm for real-time evolution in low-energy subspaces using fixed-depth circuits", in preparation.

  Presenters

  • Bharath Sambasivam

    • Virginia Tech

  Authors

  • Bharath Sambasivam

    • Virginia Tech

  • Kyle Sherbert

    • Virginia Tech

  • Karunya Shailesh Shirali

    • Virginia Tech

  • Nicholas Mayhall

    • Virginia Tech

  • Edwin Barnes

    • Virginia Tech

  • Sophia Economou

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