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Within the present noisy intermediate-scale quantum-computing era, hybrid quantum-classical-processor algorithms have emerged as promising avenues for tackling electronic-structure eigenproblems. Among them, the so-called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Christophe Soule , Bruno Senjean , Benjamin Lasorne

We systematically investigate the calculation of excited states in quantum chemistry using auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC). Symmetry allows targeting of the lowest triplet excited states in AFQMC based on restricted open-shell…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Ankit Mahajan , Sandeep Sharma , Shiwei Zhang , David R. Reichman

The emerging field of quantum simulation of many-body systems is widely recognized as a very important application of quantum computing. A crucial step towards its realization in the context of many-electron systems requires a rigorous…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-08-23 Sumeet , V. S. Prasannaa , B. P. Das , B. K. Sahoo

Calculations of molecular spectral properties, like photodissociation rates and absorption bands, rely on knowledge of the excited state energies of the molecule of interest. Protocols based on the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-19 Yordan S. Yordanov , Crispin H. W. Barnes , David R. M. Arvidsson-Shukur

State-specific electronic structure theory provides a route towards balanced excited-state wave functions by exploiting higher-energy stationary points of the electronic energy. Multiconfigurational wave function approximations can describe…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Antoine Marie , Hugh G. A. Burton

Electronic excited states are central to a vast array of physical and chemical phenomena, yet accurate and efficient methods for preparing them on quantum devices remain challenging and comparatively underexplored. We introduce a general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Hao-En Li , Lin Lin

Computing excitation spectra of quantum many-body systems is a promising avenue to demonstrate the practical utility of current noisy quantum devices, especially as we move toward the ``megaquop'' regime. For this task, here we introduce a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Ji-Yao Chen , Bochen Huang , D. L. Zhou , Norbert Schuch , Chenfeng Cao , Muchun Yang

Determining the spectrum and wave functions of excited states of a system is crucial in quantum physics and chemistry. Low-depth quantum algorithms, such as the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) and its variants, can be used to…

The accurate computation of ground and excited states of many-fermion quantum systems is one of the most consequential, contemporary challenges in the physical and computational sciences whose solution stands to benefit significantly from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 S. E. Smart , D. A. Mazziotti

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

Excited states of molecules lie in the heart of photochemistry and chemical reactions. The recent development in quantum computational chemistry leads to inventions of a variety of algorithms that calculate the excited states of molecules…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-05 Hiroki Kawai , Yuya O. Nakagawa

Quantum computers have the potential for an exponential speedup of classical molecular computations. However, existing algorithms have limitations; quantum phase estimation (QPE) algorithms are intractable on current hardware while…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-03 Scott E. Smart , David A. Mazziotti

Many-body techniques based on the double unitary coupled cluster ansatz (DUCC) can be used to downfold electronic Hamiltonians into low-dimensional active spaces. It can be shown that the resulting dimensionality reduced Hamiltonians are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Nicholas P. Bauman , Guang Hao Low , Karol Kowalski

Quantum systems have historically been formidable to simulate using classical computational methods, particularly as the system size grows. In recent years, advancements in quantum computing technology have offered new opportunities for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Jinao Wang , Rimika Jaiswal

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

Highly excited states of quantum many-body systems are central objects in the study of quantum dynamics and thermalization that challenge classical computational methods due to their volume-law entanglement content. In this work, we explore…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-17 Feng Zhang , Niladri Gomes , Yongxin Yao , Peter P. Orth , Thomas Iadecola

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)…

Solving for molecular excited states remains one of the key challenges of modern quantum chemistry. Traditional methods are constrained by existing computational capabilities, limiting the complexity of the molecules that can be studied or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-13 Jules Tilly , Glenn Jones , Hongxiang Chen , Leonard Wossnig , Edward Grant

Preparing quantum many-body states on classical or quantum devices is a very challenging task that requires accounting for exponentially large Hilbert spaces. Although this complexity can be managed with exponential ans\"atze (such as in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-13 Weillei Zeng , Jiaji Zhang , Lipeng Chen , Carlos L. Benavides-Riveros

A method is presented in which the ground-state subspace is projected out of a Hamiltonian representation. As a result of this projection, an effective Hamiltonian is constructed where its ground-state coincides with an excited-state of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 P. Jouzdani , S. Bringuier , M. Kostuk