Generalized Nonlinear Imaginary-Time Evolution
Imaginary time evolution (ITE) is a powerful method for ground state preparation of a given Hamiltonian. The normalized ITE can be viewed as a gradient flow of the energy expectation value with respect to the Fubini Study metric. In this work, we propose a generalized nonlinear imaginary time evolution (NITE) for more general quantum state preparation tasks. We further present a hardware efficient variational impl...