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A new "on the fly" method to perform Born-Oppenheimer ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) is presented. Inspired by Ehrenfest dynamics in time-dependent density functional theory, the electronic orbitals are evolved by a Schroedinger-like…

An exact approach to compute physical properties for general multi-electronic-state (MES) systems in thermal equilibrium is presented. The approach is extended from our recent progress on path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) [J. Chem.…

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Recent advances in quantum computing devices have brought attention to hybrid quantum-classical algorithms like the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) as a potential route to practical quantum advantage in chemistry. However, it is not…

We present a novel method for improving the quantum simulation of the ground state energy of molecules. We perform a pre-processing step classically, which reduces the dimensionality of the problem by generating a custom mapping which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-03 Kaur Kristjuhan , Mark Nicholas Jones

Quantum computing presents a promising path toward precise quantum chemical simulations, particularly for systems that challenge classical methods. This work investigates the performance of the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Zakaria Boutakka , Nouhaila Innan , Muhammed Shafique , Mohamed Bennai , Z. Sakhi

While the treatment of chemically relevant systems containing hundreds or even thousands of electrons remains beyond the reach of quantum devices, the development of quantum-classical hybrid algorithms to resolve electronic correlation…

We present an Adaptively Biased Molecular Dynamics (ABMD) method for the computation of the free energy surface of a reaction coordinate using non-equilibrium dynamics. The ABMD method belongs to the general category of umbrella sampling…

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In this paper we develop a quantum algorithm to realize finite temperature simulation on a quantum computer. As quantum computers use real-time evolution we did not use the imaginary time methods popular on classical algorithms. Instead, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-11 Raffaele Miceli , Michael McGuigan

Classical simulation of real-space quantum dynamics is challenging due to the exponential scaling of computational cost with system dimensions. Quantum computer offers the potential to simulate quantum dynamics with polynomial complexity;…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Chee-Kong Lee , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Shengyu Zhang , Liang Shi

Path-integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) simulations have been carried out to study the influence of quantum dynamics of carbon atoms on the properties of a single graphene layer. Finite-temperature properties were analyzed in the range from…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-23 Carlos P. Herrero , Rafael Ramirez

Ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) with hybrid density functionals and plane wave basis is computationally expensive due to the high computational cost of exact exchange energy evaluation. Recently, we proposed a strategy to combine…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-01-11 Sagarmoy Mandal , Vaishali Thakkur , Nisanth N. Nair

Free energy calculations are at the heart of physics-based analyses of biochemical processes. They allow us to quantify molecular recognition mechanisms, which determine a wide range of biological phenomena from how cells send and receive…

We present a new formulation of ab initio molecular dynamics which exploits the efficiency of plane waves in adaptive curvilinear coordinates, and thus provides an accurate treatment of first-row elements. The method is used to perform a…

mtrl-th · Physics 2009-10-28 Francois Gygi

The contribution of nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) to the properties of various hydrogen-bound systems, including biomolecules, is increasingly recognized. Despite the development of many acceleration techniques, the computational overhead…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Iryna Zaporozhets , Félix Musil , Venkat Kapil , Cecilia Clementi

Quantum chemistry is one of the most promising applications of quantum computers in the near future. For noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices, the quantum-classical hybrid framework based on the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) has…

Simulations of chemical dynamics are a powerful means for understanding chemistry. However, classical computers struggle to simulate many chemical processes, especially non-adiabatic ones, where the Born-Oppenheimer approximation breaks…

Dynamical Mean Field Theory (DMFT) is one of the powerful computational approaches to study electron correlation effects in solid-state materials and molecules. Its practical applicability is, however, limited by the quantity of numerical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-23 Jannis Ehrlich , Daniel Urban , Christian Elsässer

Near-term quantum computers are expected to facilitate material and chemical research through accurate molecular simulations. Several developments have already shown that accurate ground-state energies for small molecules can be evaluated…

Variational algorithms are promising candidates to be implemented on near-term quantum computers. The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is a prominent example, where a parametrized trial state of the quantum mechanical wave function is…

We present high-precision quantum computing simulations of three-body atoms (He, H$^-$) and molecules (H$_2^+$, HD$^+$), the latter being studied beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. The Non-Iterative Disentangled Unitary Coupled…

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