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Quantum computers are expected to perform the full-configuration interaction calculations with less computational resources compared to classical ones, thanks to the use of the quantum phase estimation (QPE) algorithms. However, only a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Yusuke Ino , Misaki Yonekawa , Hideto Yuzawa , Yuichiro Minato , Kenji Sugisaki

Quantum computing has the potential to transform simulations of quantum many-body problems at the heart of electronic structure theory. Efficient quantum algorithms to compute the eigenstates of fermionic Hamiltonians, such as quantum phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Hugh G. A. Burton , Maria-Andreea Filip

We propose an excited-state molecular dynamics simulation method based on variational quantum algorithms at a computational cost comparable to that of ground-state simulations. We utilize the feature that excited states can be obtained as…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-02 Hirotoshi Hirai

Solving challenging problems in quantum chemistry is one of the most promising applications of quantum computers. Within the quantum algorithms proposed for problems in excited state quantum chemistry, subspace-based quantum algorithms,…

The potential energy surface (PES) of molecules with respect to their nuclear positions is a primary tool in understanding chemical reactions from first principles. However, obtaining this information is complicated by the fact that…

A method is presented in which the ground-state subspace is projected out of a Hamiltonian representation. As a result of this projection, an effective Hamiltonian is constructed where its ground-state coincides with an excited-state of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 P. Jouzdani , S. Bringuier , M. Kostuk

Machine learning is employed at an increasing rate in the research field of quantum chemistry. While the majority of approaches target the investigation of chemical systems in their electronic ground state, the inclusion of light into the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-16 Julia Westermayr , Philipp Marquetand

Calculating excited states in chemistry is crucial to provide insight into photoinduced molecular behavior beyond the ground state, enabling innovations in spectroscopy, material sciences, and drug design. While several approaches have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Akilan Rajamani , Martin Beseda , Benjamin Lasorne , Bruno Senjean

Quantum computers are a highly promising tool for efficiently simulating quantum many-body systems. The preparation of their eigenstates is of particular interest and can be addressed, e.g., by quantum phase estimation algorithms. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Xiaoyu Liu , Benjamin F. Schiffer , Jordi Tura

Molecular ground-state simulation is one of the most promising fields for demonstrating practical quantum advantage on near-term quantum computers. However, the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE), a leading algorithm for this task, still…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Runhong He , Qiaozhen Chai , Xin Hong , Ji Guan , Guolong Cui , Shengbin Wang , Shenggang Ying

Accurately solving the Schr\"odinger equation remains a central challenge in computational physics, chemistry, and materials science. Here, we propose an alternative eigenvalue problem based on a system's autocorrelation function, avoiding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Timothy Stroschein , Davide Castaldo , Markus Reiher

The recent developments of quantum computing present potential novel pathways for quantum chemistry, as the increased computational power of quantum computers could be harnessed to naturally encode and solve electronic structure problems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 Lila Cadi Tazi , Alex J. W. Thom

The computation of electronic excited states and real-time quantum dynamics of many-fermion systems is among the most promising applications of near-term quantum computing. In this work, we generalize the reinforcement learning contracted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Jiaji Zhang , Lipeng Chen , Carlos L. Benavides-Riveros

The accurate quantum chemical calculation of excited states is a challenging task, often requiring computationally demanding methods. When entire ground and excited potential energy surfaces (PESs) are desired, e.g., to predict the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-03-26 Zeno Schätzle , P. Bernát Szabó , Alice Cuzzocrea , Frank Noé

We propose quantum-selected configuration interaction (QSCI), a class of hybrid quantum-classical algorithms for calculating the ground- and excited-state energies of many-electron Hamiltonians on noisy quantum devices. Suppose that an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-23 Keita Kanno , Masaya Kohda , Ryosuke Imai , Sho Koh , Kosuke Mitarai , Wataru Mizukami , Yuya O. Nakagawa

The computation of excited states in strongly interacting quantum many-body systems is of fundamental importance. Yet, it is notoriously challenging due to the exponential scaling of the Hilbert space dimension with the system size. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Yixuan Ma , Chang Liu , Weikang Li , Shun-Yao Zhang , L. -M. Duan , Yukai Wu , Dong-Ling Deng

The combination of modern scientific computing with electronic structure theory can lead to an unprecedented amount of data amenable to intelligent data analysis for the identification of meaningful, novel, and predictive structure-property…

We present a variational Monte Carlo algorithm for estimating the lowest excited states of a quantum system which is a natural generalization of the estimation of ground states. The method has no free parameters and requires no explicit…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 David Pfau , Simon Axelrod , Halvard Sutterud , Ingrid von Glehn , James S. Spencer

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE), a variational algorithm to obtain an approximated ground state of a given Hamiltonian, is an appealing application of near-term quantum computers. The original work [A. Peruzzo et al.; \textit{Nat.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Ken M Nakanishi , Kosuke Mitarai , Keisuke Fujii

Determining the spectrum and wave functions of excited states of a system is crucial in quantum physics and chemistry. Low-depth quantum algorithms, such as the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) and its variants, can be used to…