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Computing ground-state properties of molecules is a promising application for quantum computers operating in concert with classical high-performance computing resources. Quantum embedding methods are a family of algorithms particularly…

We show how to absorb fermionic quantum simulation's expensive fermion-to-qubit mapping overhead into the overhead already incurred by surface-code-based fault-tolerant quantum computing. The key idea is to process information in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-10 Andrew J. Landahl , Benjamin C. A. Morrison

Simulating a fermionic system on a quantum computer requires encoding the anti-commuting fermionic variables into the operators acting on the qubit Hilbert space. The most familiar of which, the Jordan-Wigner transformation, encodes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-25 Riley W. Chien , James D. Whitfield

Quantum computational chemistry holds great promise for simulating molecular systems more efficiently than classical methods by leveraging quantum bits to represent molecular wavefunctions. However, current implementations face significant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Weitang Li , Shi-Xin Zhang , Zirui Sheng , Cunxi Gong , Jianpeng Chen , Zhigang Shuai

The advent of bottom-up atomic manipulation heralded a new horizon for attainable information density, as it allowed a bit of information to be represented by a single atom. The discrete spacing between atoms in condensed matter has thus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christopher R. Moon , Laila S. Mattos , Brian K. Foster , Gabriel Zeltzer , Hari C. Manoharan

Simulating molecular systems on quantum computers requires efficient mappings from Fermionic operators to qubit operators. Traditional mappings such as Jordan-Wigner or Bravyi-Kitaev often produce high-weight Pauli terms, increasing circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 James Brown , Tarini S Hardikar , Kenny Heitritter , Kanav Setia

The complex-scaling method can be used to calculate molecular resonances within the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, assuming the electronic coordinates are dilated independently of the nuclear coordinates. With this method, one will…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Teng Bian , Sabre Kais

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…

It is difficult to calculate the energy levels and eigenstates of a large physical system on a classical computer because of the exponentially growing size of the Hilbert space. In this work, we experimentally demonstrate a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Zhaokai Li , Xiaomei Liu , Hefeng Wang , Sahel Ashhab , Jiangyu Cui , Hongwei Chen , Xinhua Peng , Jiangfeng Du

Excited-state properties of highly correlated systems are key to understanding photosynthesis, luminescence, and the development of novel optical materials, but accurately capturing their interactions is computationally costly. We present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-21 Irma Avdic , David A. Mazziotti

Quantum computing promises to revolutionize many-body simulations for quantum chemistry, but its potential is constrained by limited qubits and noise in current devices. In this work, we introduce the Lossy Quantum Selected Configuration…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Yu-cheng Chen , Ronin Wu , M. H. Cheng , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

The two-electron reduced density matrix (2RDM) carries enough information to evaluate the electronic energy of a many-electron system. The variational 2RDM (v2RDM) approach seeks to determine the 2RDM directly, without knowledge of the wave…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 A. Eugene DePrince

This paper introduces the FermiFab toolbox for many-particle quantum systems. It is mainly concerned with the representation of (symbolic) fermionic wavefunctions and the calculation of corresponding reduced density matrices (RDMs). The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-01 Christian B. Mendl

We define a model of quantum computation with local fermionic modes (LFMs) -- sites which can be either empty or occupied by a fermion. With the standard correspondence between the Foch space of $m$ LFMs and the Hilbert space of $m$ qubits,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Sergey Bravyi , Alexei Kitaev

We present a constructive solution to the N-representability problem---a full characterization of the conditions for constraining the two-electron reduced density matrix (2-RDM) to represent an N-electron density matrix. Previously known…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-04 David A. Mazziotti

We simulate the excited states of the Lipkin model using the recently proposed Quantum Equation of Motion (qEOM) method. The qEOM generalizes the EOM on classical computers and gives access to collective excitations based on quasi-boson…

A new physical implementation for quantum computation is proposed. The vibrational modes of molecules are used to encode qubit systems. Global quantum logic gates are realized using shaped femtosecond laser pulses which are calculated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Carmen M. Tesch , Regina de Vivie-Riedle

In this paper, we explore (2+1)D quantum electrodynamics (QED) at finite density on a quantum computer, including two fermion flavors. Our method employs an efficient gauge-invariant ansatz together with a quantum circuit structure that…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-09-26 Emil Otis Rosanowski , Arianna Crippa , Lena Funcke , Paulo Vitor Itaborai , Karl Jansen , Simran Singh

We propose and analyze a method for improving quantum chemical energy calculations on a quantum computer impaired by decoherence and shot noise. The error mitigation approach relies on the fact that the one- and two-particle reduced density…

It is virtually impossible to directly solve the Schr\"odinger equation for a many-electron wave function due to the exponential growth in degrees of freedom with increasing particle number. The two-body reduced density matrix (2-RDM)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-22 Nicholas Cox