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Think Small: Quantum Autoencoders for Leaner Molecular Simulations

Ankit Khandelwal, M R Nirmal, M Girish Chandra

Published Aug 30, 2025• 0 citations

Abstract

We propose a quantum machine learning approach using quantum autoencoders to reduce qubit requirements in molecular simulations. Our method of compressing operators enables efficient calculation of molecular properties while achieving chemical accuracy and beating classical compression.

DOI: 10.1109/qce65121.2025.10389

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