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Dave Wecker
Researcher at Microsoft
Publications - 36
Citations - 3625
Dave Wecker is an academic researcher from Microsoft. The author has contributed to research in topics: Quantum computer & Quantum algorithm. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 34 publications receiving 2800 citations.
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Progress towards practical quantum variational algorithms
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a simple-to-implement class of quantum states motivated by adiabatic state preparation, which can be used in variational approaches, optimizing parameters in the circuit to minimize the energy of the constructed quantum state for a given problem Hamiltonian.
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Elucidating reaction mechanisms on quantum computers
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that a quantum computer can be used to elucidate reaction mechanisms in complex chemical systems, using the open problem of biological nitrogen fixation in nitrogenase as an example.
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Gate count estimates for performing quantum chemistry on small quantum computers
Dave Wecker,Bela Bauer,Bryan K. Clark,Bryan K. Clark,Bryan K. Clark,Matthew B. Hastings,Matthias Troyer +6 more
TL;DR: This paper focuses on the quantum resources required to find the ground state of a molecule twice as large as what current classical computers can solve exactly and suggests that for quantum computation to become useful for quantum chemistry problems, drastic algorithmic improvements will be needed.
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Solving strongly correlated electron models on a quantum computer
Dave Wecker,Matthew B. Hastings,Nathan Wiebe,Bryan K. Clark,Bryan K. Clark,Chetan Nayak,Matthias Troyer +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, a step-by-step quantum recipe is proposed to find the ground state of strongly interacting electrons, which can be used for finding the ground states of models of strong interacting electrons.
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LIQUi|>: A Software Design Architecture and Domain-Specific Language for Quantum Computing.
Dave Wecker,Krysta M. Svore +1 more
TL;DR: The LIQUi|> project as discussed by the authors is a modular software architecture designed to control quantum hardware, which enables easy programming, compilation, and simulation of quantum algorithms and circuits, and is independent of a specific quantum architecture.