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The variational quantum eigensolver has been proposed as a low-depth quantum circuit that can be employed to examine strongly correlated systems on today's noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers. We examine details associated with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Luogen Xu , Joseph T. Lee , J. K. Freericks

A formal analysis is conducted on the exactness of various forms of unitary coupled cluster (UCC) theory based on particle-hole excitation and de-excitation operators. Both the conventional single exponential UCC parameterization and a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Francesco A. Evangelista , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan , Gustavo E. Scuseria

Immense interest in quantum computing has prompted development of electronic structure methods that are suitable for quantum hardware. However, the slow pace at which quantum hardware progresses, forces researchers to implement their ideas…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 Ilya G. Ryabinkin , Seyyed Mehdi Hosseini Jenab , Scott N. Genin

In this paper, we have developed a unitary variant of a double exponential coupled cluster theory, which is capable of mimicking the effects of connected excitations of arbitrarily high rank, using only rank-one and rank-two parametrization…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Dipanjali Halder , V. S. Prasannaa , Rahul Maitra

In this work we investigate methods to improve the efficiency and scalability of quantum algorithms for quantum chemistry applications. We propose a transformation of the electronic structure Hamiltonian in the second quantization framework…

Unitary Coupled Cluster (UCC) approaches are an appealing route to utilising quantum hardware to perform quantum chemistry calculations, as quantum computers can in principle perform UCC calculations in a polynomially scaling fashion, as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 Maria-Andreea Filip , Nathan Fitzpatrick , David Muñoz Ramo , Alex J. W. Thom

Unitary Coupled Cluster (UCC) theory is a promising variational method for electronic structure calculations, especially for strongly correlated systems and quantum computers. However, its practical application is limited by the steep…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Prateek Vaish , Brenda Rubenstein

Many quantum algorithms rely on a quality initial state for optimal performance. Preparing an initial state for specific applications can considerably reduce the cost of probabilistic algorithms such as the well studied quantum phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Alexandre Fleury , James Brown , Erika Lloyd , Maritza Hernandez , Isaac H. Kim

Quantum simulation of chemical systems is one of the most promising near-term applications of quantum computers. The variational quantum eigensolver, a leading algorithm for molecular simulations on quantum hardware, has a serious…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-16 Harper R. Grimsley , Sophia E. Economou , Edwin Barnes , Nicholas J. Mayhall

This article introduces a novel approach to perform the simulation of a single qubit quantum algorithm using laser beams. Leveraging the polarization states of photonic qubits, and inspired by variational quantum eigensolvers, we develop a…

In classical computational chemistry, the coupled-cluster ansatz is one of the most commonly used $ab~initio$ methods, which is critically limited by its non-unitary nature. The unitary modification as an ideal solution to the problem is,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-01 Yangchao Shen , Xiang Zhang , Shuaining Zhang , Jing-Ning Zhang , Man-Hong Yung , Kihwan Kim

We present a quantum-classical hybrid algorithm that simulates electronic structures of periodic systems such as ground states and quasiparticle band structures. By extending the unitary coupled cluster (UCC) theory to describe crystals in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Nobuyuki Yoshioka , Takeshi Sato , Yuya O. Nakagawa , Yu-ya Ohnishi , Wataru Mizukami

In quantum chemistry, the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is a promising algorithm for molecular simulations on near-term quantum computers. However, VQEs using hardware-efficient circuits face scaling challenges due to the barren…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 Rui Mao , Guojing Tian , Xiaoming Sun

Non-unitary theories are commonly seen in the classical simulations of quantum systems. Among these theories, the method of moments of coupled-cluster equations (MMCCs) and the ensuing classes of the renormalized coupled-cluster (CC)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Bo Peng , Karol Kowalski

Here we present a quantum algorithm for clustering data based on a variational quantum circuit. The algorithm allows to classify data into many clusters, and can easily be implemented in few-qubit Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-08 Pablo Bermejo , Roman Orus

We describe a compilation strategy for Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) algorithms which use the Unitary Coupled Cluster (UCC) ansatz, designed to reduce circuit depth and gate count. This is achieved by partitioning Pauli exponential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-28 Alexander Cowtan , Will Simmons , Ross Duncan

We introduce a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm, the localized active space unitary selective coupled cluster singles and doubles (LAS-USCCSD) method. Derived from the localized active space unitary coupled cluster (LAS-UCCSD) method,…

The unitary cluster Jastrow (UCJ) ansatz and its variant known as local UCJ (LUCJ) are promising choices for variational quantum algorithms for chemistry due to their combination of physical motivation and hardware efficiency. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Wan-Hsuan Lin , Fangchun Liang , Mario Motta , Haimeng Zhang , Kenneth M. Merz , Kevin J. Sung

We propose a relativistic unitary coupled cluster (UCC) expectation value approach for computing first-order properties of heavy-element systems. Both perturbative (UCC3) and non-perturbative (qUCC) commutator-based formulations are applied…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Kamal Majee , Somesh Chamoli , Malaya K. Nayak , Achintya Kumar Dutta

We present the quantum-selected configuration interaction-tailored coupled-cluster (QSCI-TCC) method, a hybrid quantum-classical scheme that tailors coupled-cluster (CC) theory with a quantum-selected configuration interaction (QSCI) wave…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Luca Erhart , Yuichiro Yoshida , Wataru Mizukami