A Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm

2014 · arXiv (Cornell University) · 1,815 citations · 5 from inside this corpus

Edward Farhi, Jeffrey Goldstone, Sam Gutmann

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What cites it, inside the corpus

Paper	Year	Cited
Quantum Computing in the NISQ era and beyond	2018	8,662
Quantum machine learning	2017	4,720
Hardware-efficient variational quantum eigensolver for small molecules and quantum magnets	2017	3,128
Barren plateaus in quantum neural network training landscapes	2018	2,289
Quantum computational chemistry	2020	1,699

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Topics

Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture	Computer Science
Quantum Information and Cryptography	Computer Science
Quantum Mechanics and Applications	Physics and Astronomy

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