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The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithm, designed to calculate the energy of molecular ground states on near-term quantum computers, requires specification of symmetries that describe the system, e.g. spin state and number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-18 Gabriel Greene-Diniz , David Muñoz Ramo

We develop an extension of the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithm - multistate, contracted VQE (MC-VQE) - that allows for the efficient computation of the transition energies between the ground state and several low-lying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Robert M. Parrish , Edward G. Hohenstein , Peter L. McMahon , Todd J. Martinez

By exploiting the invariance of the molecular Hamiltonian by a unitary transformation of the orbitals it is possible to significantly shorter the depth of the variational circuit in the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) algorithm by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Leonardo Ratini , Chiara Capecci , Leonardo Guidoni

In this paper, we implement a quantum algorithm -on IBM quantum devices, IBM QASM simulator and PPRC computer cluster -to find the energy values of the ground state and the first excited state of a particle in a finite square-well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Sina Shokri , Shahnoosh Rafibakhsh , Faezeh Pooshgan , Rita Faeghi

Variational quantum algorithms are hybrid quantum-classical approaches extensively studied for their potential to leverage near-term quantum hardware for computational advantages. In this work, we successfully execute two variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Alessio Baldazzi , Matteo Sanna , Massimo Borghi , Stefano Azzini , Lorenzo Pavesi

We present an implementation of alchemical free energy simulations at the quantum mechanical level by directly interpolating the electronic Hamiltonian. The method is compatible with any level of electronic structure theory and requires…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-02 Chenghan Li , Xing Zhang , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

Quantum computers promise to revolutionize our ability to simulate molecules, and cloud-based hardware is becoming increasingly accessible to a wide body of researchers. Algorithms such as Quantum Phase Estimation and the Variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 Kyle Sherbert , Frank Cerasoli , Marco Buongiorno Nardelli

The practical application of quantum technologies to chemical problems faces significant challenges, particularly in the treatment of realistic basis sets and the accurate inclusion of electron correlation effects. A direct approach to…

Quantum computers hold immense potential in the field of chemistry, ushering new frontiers to solve complex many body problems that are beyond the reach of classical computers. However, noise in the current quantum hardware limits their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 Chayan Patra , Sonaldeep Halder , Rahul Maitra

The current state of quantum computing is commonly described as the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum era. Available computers contain a few dozens of qubits and can perform a few dozens of operations before the inevitable noise erases all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-25 Ijaz Ahamed Mohammad , Matej Pivoluska , Martin Plesch

Quantum machine learning algorithms, the extensions of machine learning to quantum regimes, are believed to be more powerful as they leverage the power of quantum properties. Quantum machine learning methods have been employed to solve…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-01 Shree Hari Sureshbabu , Manas Sajjan , Sangchul Oh , Sabre Kais

This thesis investigates sampling-based quantum algorithms for electronic ground state energy estimation, focusing on Quantum-Selected Configuration Interaction (QSCI) and Sample-Based Quantum Diagonalization (SQD) as near-term alternatives…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Abdelmouheymen Rabah Khamadja , Mohamed Taha Rouabah

Under suitable assumptions, the algorithms in [Lin, Tong, Quantum 2020] can estimate the ground state energy and prepare the ground state of a quantum Hamiltonian with near-optimal query complexities. However, this is based on a block…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Yulong Dong , Lin Lin , Yu Tong

The capacity for solving eigenstates with a quantum computer is key for ultimately simulating physical systems. Here we propose inverse iteration quantum eigensolvers, which exploit the power of quantum computing for the classical inverse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-09 Min-Quan He , Dan-Bo Zhang , Z. D. Wang

Quantum simulation of molecular electronic structure is one of the most promising applications of quantum computing. However, achieving chemically accurate predictions for strongly correlated systems requires quantum phase estimation (QPE)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Shota Kanasugi , Riki Toshio , Kazunori Maruyama , Hirotaka Oshima

The problem of finding the ground state energy of a Hamiltonian using a quantum computer is currently solved using either the quantum phase estimation (QPE) or variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithms. For precision $\epsilon$, QPE…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-16 Daochen Wang , Oscar Higgott , Stephen Brierley

A universal quantum computer can simulate diverse quantum systems, with electronic structure for chemistry offering challenging problems for practical use cases around the hundred-qubit mark. While current quantum processors have reached…

We propose a modification of the Variational Quantum Eigensolver algorithm for electronic structure optimization using quantum computers, named non-unitary Variational Quantum Eigensolver (nu-VQE), in which a non-unitary operator is…

Modeling electronic systems is an important application for quantum computers. In the context of materials science, an important open problem is the computational description of chemical reactions on surfaces. In this work, we outline a…

While quantum computing algorithms have been widely applied for electronic structure calculations, applications to molecular dynamics remain scarce. Complex and varied landscapes of molecular potential energy surfaces give rise to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 K. Asnaashari , D. Bondarenko , R. V. Krems