Quantum Approximate Optimisation Algorithm for Protein Sidechain Packing
A constraint-preserving ansatz is introduced, pairing a W-state initialisation with a cyclic XY ring mixer, that enforces one-hot rotamer validity without penalty terms while keeping two-qubit gate scaling linear in the rotamer count.
Sebastian O. M. Stewart, Nicholas Chancellor, Jonte R Hance et al.
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