Pauli-string grouping for VQE measurement reduction on a sparse-connectivity quantum annealer

arXiv:2609.20861 · quant-ph, math.OC · Submitted 2026-09-10 · Read on arXiv

quant-ph, math.OC

Submitted: 2026-09-10

Updated: 2026-09-10

Comments: 12 pages, 2 figures, 5 tables

Code: https://github.com/dwavesystems/dwave-ocean-sdk

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Minimum Clique Cover — 8× in this paper
• Variational Quantum Eigensolver — 6× in this paper
• Benchmark — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Largest First — 2× in this paper
• QUBO Formulation — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Dutton and Brigham — 1× in this paper
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Recursive Largest First — 1× in this paper
• Sparsity — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• Minimizing State Preparations in Variational Quantum Eigensolver by Partitioning into Commuting Families
• Pauli String Partitioning Algorithm with the Ising Model for Simultaneous Measurement
• A practical heuristic for finding graph minors
• Next-Generation Topology of D-Wave Quantum Processors
• PennyLane: Automatic differentiation of hybrid quantum-classical computations

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