Plans for the week of April 17-21

Dear all, we hope you have had a great break.

The plans for this week are to discuss and finalize how to implement the VQE method for the  eigenvalue problems discussed in the project.  We will also discuss how to use gradient descent methods with and without analytical gradients. 

The material on gradient descent methods is taken from FYS-STK4155, see 

https://github.com/CompPhysics/MachineLearning/blob/master/doc/pub/week39/ipynb/week39.ipynb and the expressions for the analytical gradients are taken from the article of Schuld et al, see 

https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.99.032331

We will go through these derivations during the lecture on Monday April 17. The lecture notes (they are updated continuously) are at 

https://github.com/CompPhysics/QuantumComputingMachineLearning/blob/gh-pages/doc/pub/week11/ipynb/week11.ipynb

Else, concerning the VQE method, we recommend the review article at  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370157322003118?via%3Dihub

The week thereafter we are open to suggestions from you. One possibility is to discuss quantum fourier transforms. Feel free to come with suggestions.

Best wishes to you all,

Morten