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Quantum computing promises exponential improvements in solving large systems of partial differential equations (PDE), which forms a bottleneck in high-resolution computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations, in, among others, aerospace…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Vladyslav Bohun , Andrij Kuzmak , Maciej Koch-Janusz

Determining the vibrational structure of a molecule is central to fundamental applications in several areas, from atmospheric science to catalysis, fuel combustion modeling, biochemical imaging, and astrochemistry. However, when significant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 Nicolas P. D. Sawaya , Francesco Paesani , Daniel P. Tabor

Emergent quantum computing technologies are widely expected to provide novel approaches in the simulation of quantum chemistry. Despite rapid improvements in the scale and fidelity of quantum computers, high resource requirements make the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Andrew Tranter , Duncan Gowland , Kentaro Yamamoto , Michelle Sze , David Muñoz Ramo

Quantum chemistry simulations on a quantum computer suffer from the overhead needed for encoding the fermionic problem in a bosonic system of qubits. By exploiting the block diagonality of a fermionic Hamiltonian, we show that the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-09 Nikolaj Moll , Andreas Fuhrer , Peter Staar , Ivano Tavernelli

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

The quantum computation of electronic energies can break the curse of dimensionality that plagues many-particle quantum mechanics. It is for this reason that a universal quantum computer has the potential to fundamentally change…

We consider simulating quantum systems on digital quantum computers. We show that the performance of quantum simulation can be improved by simultaneously exploiting commutativity of the target Hamiltonian, sparsity of interactions, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-06 Yuan Su , Hsin-Yuan Huang , Earl T. Campbell

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver approach to the electronic structure problem on a quantum computer involves measurement of the Hamiltonian expectation value. Formally, quantum mechanics allows one to measure all mutually commuting or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 Tzu-Ching Yen , Vladyslav Verteletskyi , Artur F. Izmaylov

The unitary coupled cluster (UCC) ansatz is a promising tool for achieving high-precision results using the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithm in the NISQ era. However, results on quantum hardware are thus far very limited and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 Mark R. Hirsbrunner , Diana Chamaki , J. Wayne Mullinax , Norm M. Tubman

Quantum chemistry is among the most promising applications of quantum computing, offering the potential to solve complex electronic structure problems more efficiently than classical approaches. A critical component of any quantum algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Smik Patel , Praveen Jayakumar , Tzu-Ching Yen , Artur F. Izmaylov

Variational algorithms are a promising paradigm for utilizing near-term quantum devices for modeling electronic states of molecular systems. However, previous bounds on the measurement time required have suggested that the application of…

A particle-in-cell algorithm is derived with a canonical Poisson structure in the formalism of finite element exterior calculus. The resulting method belongs to the class of gauge-compatible splitting algorithms, which exactly preserve…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-05 Alexander S. Glasser , Hong Qin

Quantum computation of vibrational properties of molecules is a promising platform to obtain computational advantages for computational chemistry. However, fault-tolerant quantum computations of vibrational properties remain a relatively…

In recent years, quantum computing has drawn significant interest within the field of high-energy physics. We explore the potential of quantum algorithms to resolve the combinatorial problems in particle physics experiments. As a concrete…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-12 Jacob L. Scott , Zhongtian Dong , Taejoon Kim , Kyoungchul Kong , Myeonghun Park

We present a quantum algorithm for simulating quantum chemistry with gate complexity $\tilde{O}(N^{1/3} \eta^{8/3})$ where $\eta$ is the number of electrons and $N$ is the number of plane wave orbitals. In comparison, the most efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Ryan Babbush , Dominic W. Berry , Jarrod R. McClean , Hartmut Neven

Recent works have shown that quantum computers can polynomially speed up certain SAT-solving algorithms even when the number of available qubits is significantly smaller than the number of variables. Here we generalise this approach. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Yimin Ge , Vedran Dunjko

We introduce an iterative method to search for time-optimal Hamiltonians that drive a quantum system between two arbitrary, and in general mixed, quantum states. The method is based on the idea of progressively improving the efficiency of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Francesco Campaioli , William Sloan , Kavan Modi , Felix Alexander Pollock

Estimating the eigenvalues of a unitary transformation U by standard phase estimation requires the implementation of controlled-U-gates which are not available if U is only given as a black box. We show that a simple trick allows to measure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dominik Janzing , Thomas Beth

Quantum computers promise to revolutionise electronic simulations by overcoming the exponential scaling of many-electron problems. While electronic wave functions can be represented using a product of fermionic unitary operators, shallow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-04 Hugh G. A. Burton , Daniel Marti-Dafcik , David P. Tew , David J. Wales

We present two techniques that can greatly reduce the number of gates required to realize an energy measurement, with application to ground state preparation in quantum simulations. The first technique realizes that to prepare the ground…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-28 David Poulin , Alexei Kitaev , Damian S. Steiger , Matthew B. Hastings , Matthias Troyer