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The prediction of electronic structure for strongly correlated molecules represents a promising application for near-term quantum computers. Significant attention has been paid to ground state wavefunctions, but excited states of molecules…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Harper R. Grimsley , Francesco A. Evangelista

Variational calculations of excited electronic states are carried out by finding saddle points on the surface that describes how the energy of the system varies as a function of the electronic degrees of freedom. This approach has several…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Yorick L. A. Schmerwitz , Gianluca Levi , Hannes Jónsson

In this manuscript, we calculate the ground state energy of benzene under spatial deformations by using the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE). The primary goal of the study is estimating the feasibility of using quantum computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Wassil Sennane , Jean-Philip Piquemal , Marko J. Rančić

Finding the ground-state energy of molecules is an important and challenging computational problem for which quantum computing can potentially find efficient solutions. The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is a quantum algorithm that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Daniel Yoffe , Amir Natan , Adi Makmal

Reflecting the increasing interest in quantum computing, the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) has attracted much attentions as a possible application of near-term quantum computers. Although the VQE has often been applied to quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Yasutaka Nishida , Fumihiko Aiga

We present numerical calculations of the energetic separation between different spin states (singlet, triplet and quintet) for a simplified model of a deoxy-myoglobin protein using the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithm. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Unathi Skosana , Sthembiso Gumede , Mark Tame

Variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is an appealing candidate for the application of near-term quantum computers. A technique introduced in [Higgot et al., Quantum 3, 156 (2019)], which is named variational quantum deflation (VQD), has…

We introduce the Qumode Subspace Variational Quantum Eigensolver (QSS-VQE), a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for computing molecular excited states using the Fock basis of bosonic qumodes in circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED)…

Quantum chemistry simulations offer a cost-effective way for computational design of BODIPY photosensitizers with potential use in photodynamic therapy (PDT). However, accurate predictions of photophysical properties, such as excitation…

We introduce several improvements to the penalty-based variational quantum Monte Carlo (VMC) algorithm for computing electronic excited states of Entwistle $\textit{et al.}$ [M. T. Entwistle $\textit{et al.}$, Nat. Commun. $\textbf{14}$,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-23 P. Bernát Szabó , Zeno Schätzle , Mike T. Entwistle , Frank Noé

We propose a momentum-space based variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) framework for simulating quasiparticle excitations in interacting quantum many-body systems on near-term quantum devices. Leveraging translational invariance and other…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-24 Saavanth Velury , Yuxuan Wang

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

A family of Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) methods is designed to maximize the resource of existing noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. However, VQE approaches encounter various difficulties in simulating molecules of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-08-16 M. D. Sapova , A. K. Fedorov

First-quantized eigensolver (FQE) is a recently proposed framework of quantum computation for obtaining the ground state of an interacting electronic system based on probabilistic imaginary-time evolution. In this study, we propose a method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Taichi Kosugi , Hirofumi Nishi , Yu-ichiro Matsushita

Determining quantum excited states is crucial across physics and chemistry but presents significant challenges for variational methods, primarily due to the need to enforce orthogonality to lower-energy states, often requiring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Shi-Xin Zhang , Lei Wang

Drawing inspiration from the Lyapunov control technique for quantum systems, feedback-based quantum algorithms have been proposed for calculating the ground states of Hamiltonians. In this work, we consider extending these algorithms to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Salahuddin Abdul Rahman , Özkan Karabacak , Rafal Wisniewski

Variational quantum algorithms are emerging as promising candidates for near-term practical applications of quantum information processors, in the field of quantum chemistry. We implement the variational quantum eigensolver algorithm to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Dileep Singh , Shashank Mehendale , Arvind , Kavita Dorai

We present calculations of the ground and excited state energies of spin defects in solids carried out on a quantum computer, using a hybrid classical/quantum protocol. We focus on the negatively charged nitrogen vacancy center in diamond…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Benchen Huang , Marco Govoni , Giulia Galli

The variational approach is a cornerstone of computational physics, considering both conventional and quantum computing computational platforms. The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithm aims to prepare the ground state of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-16 Nikita Astrakhantsev , Guglielmo Mazzola , Ivano Tavernelli , Giuseppe Carleo

Variational quantum eigensolver(VQE) typically minimizes energy with hybrid quantum-classical optimization, which aims to find the ground state. Here, we propose a VQE by minimizing energy variance, which is called as variance-VQE(VVQE).…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-30 Dan-Bo Zhang , Zhan-Hao Yuan , Tao Yin