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Solving for molecular excited states remains one of the key challenges of modern quantum chemistry. Traditional methods are constrained by existing computational capabilities, limiting the complexity of the molecules that can be studied or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-13 Jules Tilly , Glenn Jones , Hongxiang Chen , Leonard Wossnig , Edward Grant

We propose a new approach to improve the accuracy of ground state estimates in Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) algorithms by employing subspace representations with soft-coded orthogonality constraints. As in other subspace-based VQE…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Giuseppe Clemente , Marco Intini

Variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is a promising algorithm suitable for near-term quantum machines. VQE aims to approximate the lowest eigenvalue of an exponentially sized matrix in polynomial time. It minimizes quantum resource…

Variational-Quantum-Eigensolver (VQE) method has been known as the method of chemical calculation using quantum computers and classical computers. This method also can derive the energy levels of excited states by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-07 Hikaru Wakaura , Takao Tomono

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is an algorithm for finding the ground states of a given Hamiltonian. Its application to binary-formulated combinatorial optimization (CO) has been widely studied in recent years. However, typical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Ningyi Xie , Xinwei Lee , Tiejin Chen , Yoshiyuki Saito , Nobuyoshi Asai , Dongsheng Cai

The development of Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer (FTQC) gradually raises a possibility to implement the Quantum Phase Estimation (QPE) algorithm. However, QPE works only for normalized systems. This requires the minimum and maximum of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-19 Hikaru Wakaura , Andriyan B. Suksmono

The prediction of electronic structure for strongly correlated molecules represents a promising application for near-term quantum computers. Significant attention has been paid to ground state wavefunctions, but excited states of molecules…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Harper R. Grimsley , Francesco A. Evangelista

Variational quantum algorithms have shown promise in numerous fields due to their versatility in solving problems of scientific and commercial interest. However, leading algorithms for Hamiltonian simulation, such as the Variational Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-27 Arthur G. Rattew , Shaohan Hu , Marco Pistoia , Richard Chen , Steve Wood

Computing excited-state properties of molecules and solids is considered one of the most important near-term applications of quantum computers. While many of the current excited-state quantum algorithms differ in circuit architecture,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-19 Carlos L. Benavides-Riveros , Yuchen Wang , Samuel Warren , David A. Mazziotti

Hybrid quantum-classical algorithms have been proposed as a potentially viable application of quantum computers. A particular example - the variational quantum eigensolver, or VQE - is designed to determine a global minimum in an energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Alexey Uvarov , Jacob Biamonte , Dmitry Yudin

Determining the ground and low-lying excited states is critical in numerous scenarios. Recent work has proposed the ancilla-entangled variational quantum eigensolver (AEVQE) that utilizes entanglement between ancilla and physical qubits to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Huili Zhang , Yibin Guo , Guanglei Xu , Yulong Feng , Jingning Zhang , Hai-feng Yu , S. P. Zhao

The realization of quantum advantage with noisy-intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) machines has become one of the major challenges in computational sciences. Maintaining coherence of a physical system with more than ten qubits is a critical…

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) algorithm has been developed to target near term Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers as a method to find the eigenvalues of Hamiltonians. Unlike fully quantum algorithms such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Taylor Harville , Rishu Khurana , Vitor F. Grizzi , Cong Liu

The ground and excited state calculations at key geometries, such as the Frank-Condon (FC) and the conical intersection (CI) geometries, are essential for understanding photophysical properties. To compute these geometries on noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Shigeki Gocho , Hajime Nakamura , Shu Kanno , Qi Gao , Takao Kobayashi , Taichi Inagaki , Miho Hatanaka

The contextual subspace variational quantum eigensolver (CS-VQE) is a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm that approximates the ground-state energy of a given qubit Hamiltonian. It achieves this by separating the Hamiltonian into contextual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-14 Alexis Ralli , Tim Weaving , Andrew Tranter , William M. Kirby , Peter J. Love , Peter V. Coveney

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) and its variants, which is a method for finding eigenstates and eigenenergies of a given Hamiltonian, are appealing applications of near-term quantum computers. Although the eigenenergies are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 Kosuke Mitarai , Yuya O. Nakagawa , Wataru Mizukami

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for quantum simulation that can be run on near-term quantum hardware. A challenge in VQE -- as well as any other heuristic algorithm for finding ground states…

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is one of the most appealing quantum algorithms to simulate electronic structure properties of molecules on near-term noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices. In this work, we generalize the VQE…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-09 Jie Liu , Lingyun Wan , Zhenyu Li , Jinlong Yang

Calculating the energy spectrum of a quantum system is an important task, for example to analyse reaction rates in drug discovery and catalysis. There has been significant progress in developing algorithms to calculate the ground state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Suguru Endo , Tyson Jones , Sam McArdle , Xiao Yuan , Simon Benjamin

A quantum computing algorithm is proposed to obtain low-lying excited states in many-body interacting systems. The approximate eigenstates are obtained by using a quantum space diagonalization method in a subspace of states selected from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-30 Jing Zhang , Denis Lacroix