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= River Lane Research =

River Lane Research is a quantum computing startup based in Cambridge. Founded by University of Cambridge researcher Steve Brierley in 2016, the startup aims to bring forward the date at which quantum computing becomes useful by improving existing quantum algorithms and producing new ones.

Scientific Contributions
Researchers at River lane have made two significant contributions to the quantum variational algorithm for finding the ground state energies of molecules. Their first contribution concerned an interpolation between the Quantum phase estimation algorithm and the quantum variational eigensolver, showing that the two could be combined for near term applications. The second contribution demonstrated that quantum computers could efficiently calculate the energies of excited states of molecules using the aforementioned generalized VQE algorithm. River Lane also maintains historic data sets from the past 20 years of quantum computing development.