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Accurately determining ground-state properties of quantum many-body systems remains one of the major challenges of quantum simulation. In this work, we present a protocol for estimating the ground-state energy using only global time…

We present a novel method for improving the quantum simulation of the ground state energy of molecules. We perform a pre-processing step classically, which reduces the dimensionality of the problem by generating a custom mapping which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-03 Kaur Kristjuhan , Mark Nicholas Jones

Quantum phase estimation is the workhorse behind any quantum algorithm and a promising method for determining ground state energies of strongly correlated quantum systems. Low-cost quantum phase estimation techniques make use of circuits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 T. E. O'Brien , B. Tarasinski , B. M. Terhal

Significant effort in applied quantum computing has been devoted to the problem of ground state energy estimation for molecules and materials. Yet, for many applications of practical value, additional properties of the ground state must be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Ruizhe Zhang , Guoming Wang , Peter Johnson

We describe an algorithm that computes the ground state energy and correlation functions for 2-local Hamiltonians in which interactions between qubits are weak compared to single-qubit terms. The running time of the algorithm is polynomial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sergey Bravyi , David DiVincenzo , Daniel Loss

Electronic excited states of molecules are central to many physical and chemical processes, and yet they are typically more difficult to compute than ground states. In this paper we leverage the advantages of quantum computers to develop an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Yuchen Wang , David A. Mazziotti

The determination of ground state properties of quantum systems is a fundamental problem in physics and chemistry, and is considered a key application of quantum computers. A common approach is to prepare a trial ground state on the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-13 Harish J. Vallury , Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg

Variational algorithms are promising candidates to be implemented on near-term quantum computers. The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is a prominent example, where a parametrized trial state of the quantum mechanical wave function is…

We propose quantum algorithms for projective ground-state preparation and calculations of the many-body Green's functions directly in frequency domain. The algorithms are based on the linear combination of unitary (LCU) operations and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-13 Trevor Keen , Eugene Dumitrescu , Yan Wang

Variational quantum algorithms are emerging as promising candidates for near-term practical applications of quantum information processors, in the field of quantum chemistry. We implement the variational quantum eigensolver algorithm to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Dileep Singh , Shashank Mehendale , Arvind , Kavita Dorai

Key properties of physical systems can be described by the eigenvalues of matrices that represent the system. Computational algorithms that determine the eigenvalues of these matrices exist, but they generally suffer from a loss of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 T. Powers , R. M. Rajapakse

Low-energy estimation and state preparation for general $k$-local Hamiltonians are fundamental challenges in quantum complexity theory. For constant relative accuracy, Buhrman et al. (PRL 2025) recently broke the natural Grover bound…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Ranitha Mataraarachchi , François Le Gall , Suguru Tamaki

The simulation of electronic properties is a pivotal issue in modern electronic structure theory, driving significant efforts over the past decades to develop protocols for computing energy derivatives. In this work, we address this problem…

Finding eigenstates of a given many-body Hamiltonian is a long-standing challenge due to the perceived computational complexity. Leveraging on the hardware of a quantum computer accommodating the exponential growth of the Hilbert space size…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Nannan Ma , Heng Dai , Jiangbin Gong

A powerful method for calculating the eigenvalues of a Hamiltonian operator consists of converting the energy eigenvalue equation into a matrix equation by means of an appropriate basis set of functions. The convergence of the method can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Amore , Alfredo Aranda , Francisco Fernandez , Hugh Jones

When estimating the eigenvalues of a given observable, even fault-tolerant quantum computers will be subject to errors, namely algorithmic errors. These stem from approximations in the algorithms implementing the unitary passed to phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-11 Adam Siegel , Kosuke Mitarai , Keisuke Fujii

We study the efficiency of algorithms simulating a system evolving with Hamiltonian $H=\sum_{j=1}^m H_j$. We consider high order splitting methods that play a key role in quantum Hamiltonian simulation. We obtain upper bounds on the number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Anargyros Papageorgiou , Chi Zhang

We propose a quantum algorithm to obtain the lowest eigenstate of any Hamiltonian simulated by a quantum computer. The proposed algorithm begins with an arbitrary initial state of the simulated system. A finite series of transforms is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 Jeongho Bang , Seung-Woo Lee , Chang-Woo Lee , Hyunseok Jeong

We present a stochastic quantum computing algorithm that can prepare any eigenvector of a quantum Hamiltonian within a selected energy interval $[E-\epsilon, E+\epsilon]$. In order to reduce the spectral weight of all other eigenvectors by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-26 Kenneth Choi , Dean Lee , Joey Bonitati , Zhengrong Qian , Jacob Watkins

We develop and analyze a fault-tolerant quantum algorithm for computing $n$-th order response properties necessary for analysis of non-linear spectroscopies of molecular and condensed phase systems. We use a semi-classical description in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Tyler Kharazi , Torin F. Stetina , Liwen Ko , Guang Hao Low , K. Birgitta Whaley