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Quantum computing has recently exhibited great potentials in predicting chemical properties for various applications in drug discovery, material design, and catalyst optimization. Progress has been made in simulating small molecules, such…

We develop and implement a novel pulse-based ansatz, which we call PANSATZ, for more efficient and accurate implementations of variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) on today's noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers. Our approach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-03 Dekel Meirom , Steven H. Frankel

Quantum computing (QC) provides a promising avenue toward enabling quantum chemistry calculations, which are classically impossible due to a computational complexity that increases exponentially with system size. As fully fault-tolerant…

Understanding complex chemical systems -- such as biomolecules, catalysts, and novel materials -- is a central goal of quantum simulations. Near-term strategies hinge on the use of variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithms combined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Joshua Goings , Luning Zhao , Jacek Jakowski , Titus Morris , Raphael Pooser

Quantum simulation of molecular electronic structure is one of the most promising applications of quantum computing. However, achieving chemically accurate predictions for strongly correlated systems requires quantum phase estimation (QPE)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Shota Kanasugi , Riki Toshio , Kazunori Maruyama , Hirotaka Oshima

Quantum chemistry provides key applications for near-term quantum computing, but these are greatly complicated by the presence of noise. In this work we present an efficient ansatz for the computation of two-electron atoms and molecules…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-23 Scott E. Smart , David A. Mazziotti

We present a quantum information-inspired ansatz for the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) and demonstrate its efficacy in calculating ground-state energies of atomic systems. Instead of adopting a heuristic approach, we start with an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Abdul Kalam , Prasenjit Deb , Akitada Sakurai , B. K. Sahoo , V. S. Prasannaa , B. P. Das

Variational quantum eigensolvers (VQEs) are among the most promising quantum algorithms for solving electronic structure problems in quantum chemistry, particularly during the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era. In this study, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Abel Carreras , David Casanova , Román Orús

As quantum computing technology improves and quantum computers with a small but non-trivial number of N > 100 qubits appear feasible in the near future the question of possible applications of small quantum computers gains importance. One…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-07 Dave Wecker , Bela Bauer , Bryan K. Clark , Matthew B. Hastings , Matthias Troyer

Quantum computing is emerging as a new computational paradigm with the potential to transform several research fields, including quantum chemistry. However, current hardware limitations (including limited coherence times, gate infidelities,…

Solving electronic structure problems is considered one of the most promising applications of quantum computing. However, due to limitations imposed by the coherence time of qubits in the Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) era or the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Shuo Sun , Chandan Kumar , Kevin Shen , Elvira Shishenina , Christian B. Mendl

Three-qubit gates are highly beneficial operations in quantum computing, enabling compact implementations of quantum algorithms and efficient generation of multipartite entangled states. However, realizing such gates with high fidelity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Guangze Chen , Anton Frisk Kockum

In recent years, the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) has emerged as one of the most popular algorithms for solving the electronic structure problem on near-term quantum computers. The utility of VQE is often hindered by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 M. R. Nirmal , Ankit Khandelwal , Manoj Nambiar , Sharma S. R. K. C. Yamijala

We study a hardware-efficient variational quantum algorithm ansatz tailored for the trapped-ion quantum simulator, HEA-TI. We leverage programmable single-qubit rotations and global spin-spin interactions among all ions, reducing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-04 J. -Z. Zhuang , Y. -K. Wu , L. -M. Duan

We show that optimal control of the electron dynamics is able to prepare molecular ground states, within chemical accuracy, with evolution times approaching the bounds imposed by quantum mechanics. We propose a specific parameterization of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Davide Castaldo , Marta Rosa , Stefano Corni

Quantum computers can in principle simulate quantum physics exponentially faster than their classical counterparts, but some technical hurdles remain. Here we consider methods to make proposed chemical simulation algorithms computationally…

Quantum computing presents a promising path toward precise quantum chemical simulations, particularly for systems that challenge classical methods. This work investigates the performance of the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Zakaria Boutakka , Nouhaila Innan , Muhammed Shafique , Mohamed Bennai , Z. Sakhi

In this work, we report on a novel quantum gate approximation algorithm based on the application of parametric two-qubit gates in the synthesis process. The utilization of these parametric two-qubit gates in the circuit design allows us to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-16 Péter Rakyta , Zoltán Zimborás

The ADAPT-VQE algorithm is a promising method for generating a compact ansatz based on derivatives of the underlying cost function, and it yields accurate predictions of electronic energies for molecules. In this work we report the…

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) algorithm combines the ability of quantum computers to efficiently compute expectation values with a classical optimization routine in order to approximate ground state energies of quantum systems.…