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The study and prediction of chemical reactivity is one of the most important application areas of molecular quantum chemistry. Large-scale, fully error-tolerant quantum computers could provide exact or near-exact solutions to the underlying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-12 Michael Kühn , Sebastian Zanker , Peter Deglmann , Michael Marthaler , Horst Weiß

We present the first quantum-centric simulations of noncovalent interactions using a supramolecular approach. We simulate the potential energy surfaces (PES) of the water and methane dimers, featuring hydrophilic and hydrophobic…

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…

Quantum simulation is a prominent application of quantum computers. While there is extensive previous work on simulating finite-dimensional systems, less is known about quantum algorithms for real-space dynamics. We conduct a systematic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Andrew M. Childs , Jiaqi Leng , Tongyang Li , Jin-Peng Liu , Chenyi Zhang

Sample-based quantum diagonalization (SQD) offers a powerful route to accurate quantum chemistry on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices by combining quantum sampling with classical diagonalization. Here we introduce HSQD, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Shane McFarthing , Aidan Pellow-Jarman , Francesco Petruccione

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

Quantum chemistry simulations of some industrially relevant molecules are reported, employing variational quantum algorithms for near-term quantum devices. The energies and dipole moments are calculated along the dissociation curves for…

The computational cost of exact methods for quantum simulation using classical computers grows exponentially with system size. As a consequence, these techniques can only be applied to small systems. By contrast, we demonstrate that quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-17 Ivan Kassal , Stephen P. Jordan , Peter J. Love , Masoud Mohseni , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Determining the exponentially scaled ground state wavefunction and the associated molecular properties remains one of the central challenges in quantum chemistry. Hybrid quantum-classical algorithms implemented on quantum computers offer a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Dibyendu Mondal , Ashish Kumar Patra , Rahul Maitra

Structure-based virtual screening must address a combinatorial explosion arising from up to 10^60 drug-like molecules, multiple conformations of proteins and ligands, and all possible spatial translations and rotations of ligands within the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Pei-Kun Yang

Currently available noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices are limited by the number of qubits that can be used for quantum chemistry calculations on molecules. We show herein that the number of qubits required for simulations on a…

The practical application of quantum technologies to chemical problems faces significant challenges, particularly in the treatment of realistic basis sets and the accurate inclusion of electron correlation effects. A direct approach to…

Owing to the computational complexity of electronic structure algorithms running on classical digital computers, the range of molecular systems amenable to simulation remains tightly circumscribed even after many decades of work. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Alexis Ralli , Michael I. Williams , Peter V. Coveney

Simulations of collisions of fundamental particles on a quantum computer are expected to have an exponential advantage over classical methods and promise to enhance searches for new physics. Furthermore, scattering in scalar field theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-14 Nikita A. Zemlevskiy

Recently, sample-based quantum diagonalization (SQD) has emerged as a promising approach to compute ground and excited states of problem Hamiltonians.This method classically diagonalizes a Hamiltonian in a subspace that is spanned by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Nina Stockinger , Ludwig Nützel , Michael J. Hartmann

Characterizing thermally activated transitions in high-dimensional rugged energy surfaces is a very challenging task for classical computers. Here, we develop a quantum annealing scheme to solve this problem. First, the task of finding the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-18 Philipp Hauke , Giovanni Mattiotti , Pietro Faccioli

The quantum computation of electronic energies can break the curse of dimensionality that plagues many-particle quantum mechanics. It is for this reason that a universal quantum computer has the potential to fundamentally change…

Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) is the workhorse experimental technique for probing the structural degradation of higher-capacity cathode materials. However, the interpretation of experimental spectra is challenging due to the…

Accurately predicting response properties of molecules such as the dynamic polarizability and hyperpolarizability using quantum mechanics has been a long-standing challenge with widespread applications in material and drug design. Classical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-09-01 Xiaoxia Cai , Wei-Hai Fang , Heng Fan , Zhendong Li

Quantum computing has emerged as a promising platform for simulating strongly correlated systems in chemistry, for which the standard quantum chemistry methods are either qualitatively inaccurate or too expensive. However, due to the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-05-06 Max Rossmannek , Fabijan Pavošević , Angel Rubio , Ivano Tavernelli