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Quantum simulation of quantum chemistry is one of the most compelling applications of quantum computing. It is of particular importance in areas ranging from materials science, biochemistry and condensed matter physics. Here, we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-25 Shijie Wei , Hang Li , GuiLu Long

Quantum chemistry calculations such as the prediction of molecular properties and modeling of chemical reactions are a few of the critical areas where near-term quantum computers can showcase quantum advantage. We present a method to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Utkarsh Azad , Harjinder Singh

We report a quantum simulation of the deuteron binding energy on quantum processors accessed via cloud servers. We use a Hamiltonian from pionless effective field theory at leading order. We design a low-depth version of the unitary…

In this educational paper, we will discuss calculations on the hydrogen molecule both on classical and quantum computers. In the former case, we will discuss the calculation of molecular integrals that can then be used to calculate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Vincent Graves , Christoph Sünderhauf , Nick S. Blunt , Róbert Izsák , Milán Szőri

Solving interacting multi-particle systems is a central challenge in quantum chemistry and condensed matter physics. In this work, we investigate the computation of ground states and ground-state energies for the He-H+ and H2O molecules…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Luca Ion , Adam Smith

Quantum simulation of chemical systems is one of the most promising near-term applications of quantum computers. The variational quantum eigensolver, a leading algorithm for molecular simulations on quantum hardware, has a serious…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-16 Harper R. Grimsley , Sophia E. Economou , Edwin Barnes , Nicholas J. Mayhall

Development of quantum architectures during the last decade has inspired hybrid classical-quantum algorithms in physics and quantum chemistry that promise simulations of fermionic systems beyond the capability of modern classical computers,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-03 Frank T. Cerasoli , Kyle Sherbert , Jagoda Sławińska , Marco Buongiorno Nardelli

Quantum simulators offer the potential to utilize the quantum nature of a physical system to study another physical system. In contrast to conventional simulation, which experiences an exponential increase in computational complexity,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-24 Xuliang Du , Yang Shen , Zipeng Wu , Bei Zeng , Sen Yang

Electron-molecule collisions play a central role in both natural processes and modern technological applications, particularly in plasma processing. Conventional computational strategies such as the R-matrix method have been widely adopted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Dario Picozzi , Jonathan Tennyson , Vincent Graves , Jimena D. Gorfinkiel

It is difficult to calculate the energy levels and eigenstates of a large physical system on a classical computer because of the exponentially growing size of the Hilbert space. In this work, we experimentally demonstrate a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Zhaokai Li , Xiaomei Liu , Hefeng Wang , Sahel Ashhab , Jiangyu Cui , Hongwei Chen , Xinhua Peng , Jiangfeng Du

Quantum computers are reaching one crucial milestone after another. Motivated by their progress in quantum chemistry, we have performed an extensive series of simulations of quantum-computer runs that were aimed at inspecting best-practice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-27 Ivana Miháliková , Martin Friák , Matej Pivoluska , Martin Plesch , Martin Saip , Mojmír Šob

In this work we investigate methods to improve the efficiency and scalability of quantum algorithms for quantum chemistry applications. We propose a transformation of the electronic structure Hamiltonian in the second quantization framework…

While most work on the quantum simulation of chemistry has focused on computing energy surfaces, a similarly important application requiring subtly different algorithms is the computation of energy derivatives. Almost all molecular…

Quantum chemistry has been viewed as one of the potential early applications of quantum computing. Two techniques have been proposed for electronic structure calculations: (i) the variational quantum eigensolver and (ii) the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-19 Christina Daniel , Diksha Dhawan , Dominika Zgid , James K. Freericks

Accurate quantum chemistry simulations remain challenging on classical computers for problems of industrially relevant sizes and there is reason for hope that quantum computing may help push the boundaries of what is technically feasible.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Vincent E. Elfving , Marta Millaruelo , José A. Gámez , Christian Gogolin

Feynmans ideas to employ quantum systems for simulating other quantum systems gave rise to quantum simulation. While current quantum computers are still prone to decoherence and rely on error correction, the development of hybrid algorithms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-13 Alan Anaya , Francisco Delgado

We investigate the possibility to calculate the ground-state energy of the atomic systems on a quantum computer. For this purpose we evaluate the lowest binding energy of the moscovium atom with the use of the iterative phase estimation and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 V. A. Zaytsev , M. E. Groshev , I. A. Maltsev , A. V. Durova , V. M. Shabaev

As quantum computing approaches its first commercial implementations, quantum simulation emerges as a potentially ground-breaking technology for several domains, including Biology and Chemistry. However, taking advantage of quantum…

It is exponentially hard to simulate quantum systems by classical algorithms, while quantum computer could in principle solve this problem polynomially. We demonstrate such an quantum-simulation algorithm on our NMR system to simulate an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-22 Jiangfeng Du , Nanyang Xu , Xinhua Peng , Pengfei Wang , Sanfeng Wu , Dawei Lu

Harnessing the full power of nascent quantum processors requires the efficient management of a limited number of quantum bits with finite lifetime. Hybrid algorithms leveraging classical resources have demonstrated promising initial results…