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Solving the electronic structure problem using the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) technique involves measurement of the Hamiltonian expectation value. Current hardware can perform only projective single-qubit measurements, and thus,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Vladyslav Verteletskyi , Tzu-Ching Yen , Artur F. Izmaylov

H\"uckel molecular orbital (HMO) theory provides a semi-empirical treatment of the electronic structure in conjugated {\pi}-electronic systems. A scalable system-agnostic execution of HMO theory on a quantum computer is reported here based…

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A one-electron Schroedinger equation based on special one-electron potentials for atoms is shown to exist that produces orbitals for an arbitrary molecule that are sufficiently accurate to be used without modification to construct single-…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-05-16 Jerry L. Whitten

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Mohammad Haidar , Hugo D. Nogueira , J. -Ph. Karr

While quantum devices rely on interactions between constituent subsystems and with their environment to operate, native interactions alone often fail to deliver targeted performance. Coherent pulsed control provides the ability to tailor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-01 Michael F. O'Keeffe , Lior Horesh , John F. Barry , Danielle A. Braje , Isaac L. Chuang

Quantum simulations of molecular systems on quantum computers often employ minimal basis sets of Gaussian orbitals. In comparison with more realistic basis sets, quantum simulations employing minimal basis sets require fewer qubits and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Stefano Barison , Davide Emilio Galli , Mario Motta

Quantum computation of the energy of molecules and materials is one of the most promising applications of fault-tolerant quantum computers. Practical applications require development of quantum algorithms with reduced resource requirements.…

We demonstrate how to determine numerically nearly exact orthonormal orbitals that are optimal for evaluation of the energy of arbitrary (correlated) states of atoms and molecules by minimization of the energy Lagrangian. Orbitals are…

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

Quantum computing is increasingly offering concrete solutions toward the simulation of nuclear structure, with the potential to overcome the exponential scaling that limits classical diagonalization methods in large spaces. A particularly…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-14 Emanuele Costa , Javier Menendez

Quantum simulation of the electronic structure problem is one of the most researched applications of quantum computing. The majority of quantum algorithms for this problem encode the wavefunction using $N$ Gaussian orbitals, leading to…

A recent direction in quantum computing for molecular electronic structure sees the use of quantum devices as configuration sampling machines integrated within high-performance computing (HPC) platforms. This appeals to the strengths of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Tim Weaving , Angus Mingare , Alexis Ralli , Peter V. Coveney

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…

Although quantum computation (QC) is regarded as a promising numerical method for computational quantum chemistry, current applications of quantum-chemistry calculations on quantum computers are limited to small molecules. This limitation…

Energy spectroscopy is a powerful tool with diverse applications across various disciplines. The advent of programmable digital quantum simulators opens new possibilities for conducting spectroscopy on various models using a single device.…

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are central to computational electromagnetics (CEM) and photonic design, but classical solvers face high costs for large or complex structures. Quantum Hamiltonian simulation provides a framework to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Hiroyuki Tezuka , Yuki Sato

Quantum Variational Circuits (QVCs) are often claimed as one of the most potent uses of both near term and long term quantum hardware. The standard approaches to optimizing these circuits rely on a classical system to compute the new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-11 Owen Lockwood

Quantum computers promise to efficiently solve important problems that are intractable on a conventional computer. Quantum computational algorithms have the potential to be an exciting new way of studying quantum cosmology. In quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-03 Anirban Ganguly , Bikash K. Behera , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

Although a universal quantum computer is still far from reach, the tremendous advances in controllable quantum devices, in particular with solid-state systems, make it possible to physically implement "quantum simulators". Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 Zhixin Wang , Xiu Gu , Lian-Ao Wu , Yu-xi Liu

By exploiting the invariance of the molecular Hamiltonian by a unitary transformation of the orbitals it is possible to significantly shorter the depth of the variational circuit in the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) algorithm by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Leonardo Ratini , Chiara Capecci , Leonardo Guidoni