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We develop an extension of the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithm - multistate, contracted VQE (MC-VQE) - that allows for the efficient computation of the transition energies between the ground state and several low-lying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Robert M. Parrish , Edward G. Hohenstein , Peter L. McMahon , Todd J. Martinez

Computing the excited states of a given Hamiltonian is computationally hard for large systems, but methods that do so using quantum computers scale tractably. This problem is equivalent to the PCA problem where we are interested in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 David Quiroga , Jason Han , Anastasios Kyrillidis

The computation of excited electronic states is an important application for quantum computers. In this work, we simulate the excited state spectra of four aromatic heterocycles on IBM superconducting quantum computers, focusing on active…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Maria A. Castellanos , Mario Motta , Julia E. Rice

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

This paper explores the utility of the quantum phase estimation (QPE) in calculating high-energy excited states characterized by promotions of electrons occupying inner energy shells. These states have been intensively studied over the last…

We propose an excited-state molecular dynamics simulation method based on variational quantum algorithms at a computational cost comparable to that of ground-state simulations. We utilize the feature that excited states can be obtained as…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-02 Hirotoshi Hirai

Utilizing quantum computer to investigate quantum chemistry is an important research field nowadays. In addition to the ground-state problems that have been widely studied, the determination of excited-states plays a crucial role in the…

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

Understanding the properties of excited states of complex molecules is crucial for many chemical and physical processes. Calculating these properties is often significantly more resource-intensive than calculating their ground state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Manuel Hagelüken , Marco F. Huber , Marco Roth

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

Quantum computers can be used to calculate the electronic structure and estimate the ground state energy of many-electron molecular systems. In the present study, we implement the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) algorithm, as a hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-11 Hamid Reza Naeij , Erfan Mahmoudi , Hossein Davoodi Yeganeh , Mohsen Akbari

The computation of excited states in strongly interacting quantum many-body systems is of fundamental importance. Yet, it is notoriously challenging due to the exponential scaling of the Hilbert space dimension with the system size. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Yixuan Ma , Chang Liu , Weikang Li , Shun-Yao Zhang , L. -M. Duan , Yukai Wu , Dong-Ling Deng

The ability of near-term quantum computers to represent classically-intractable quantum states has brought much interest in using such devices for estimating the ground and excited state energies of fermionic Hamiltonians. The usefulness of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-10 Maxwell D. Radin , Peter Johnson

Variational-Quantum-Eigensolver (VQE) method has been known as the method of chemical calculation using quantum computers and classical computers. This method also can derive the energy levels of excited states by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-07 Hikaru Wakaura , Takao Tomono

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

Quantum computers are promising tools for simulating many-body quantum systems due to their potential scaling advantage over classical computers. While significant effort has been expended on many-fermion systems, here we simulate a model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-17 Yuchen Wang , LeeAnn M. Sager-Smith , David A. Mazziotti

We present a novel approach for efficient preparation of electronic ground states, leveraging the optimizer ExcitationSolve [J\"ager et al., Comm. Phys. (2025)] and established variational quantum eigensolver-based operator selection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Max Haas , Thierry N. Kaldenbach , Thomas Hammerschmidt , Daniel Barragan-Yani

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) remains one of the most popular near-term quantum algorithms for solving the electronic structure problem. Yet, for its practicality, the main challenge to overcome is improving the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-11 Seonghoon Choi , Artur F. Izmaylov

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is an algorithm to compute ground and excited state energy of quantum many-body systems. A key component of the algorithm and an active research area is the construction of a parametrized trial…

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