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Accurate prediction of excited states in battery electrolytes is central to understanding photostability, oxidative stability, and degradation. We employ hybrid quantum-classical algorithms -- the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) for…

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Coulomb interaction, following an inverse-square force-law, quantifies the amount of force between two stationary and electrically charged particles. The long-range nature of Coulomb interactions poses a major challenge to molecular…

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The estimation of low energies of many-body systems is a cornerstone of computational quantum sciences. Variational quantum algorithms can be used to prepare ground states on pre-fault-tolerant quantum processors, but their lack of…

Introducing an active space approximation is inevitable for the quantum computations of chemical systems. However, this approximation ignores the electron correlations related to non-active orbitals. Here, we propose a computational method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 Luca Erhart , Yuichiro Yoshida , Viktor Khinevich , Wataru Mizukami

Quantum computers hold immense potential in the field of chemistry, ushering new frontiers to solve complex many body problems that are beyond the reach of classical computers. However, noise in the current quantum hardware limits their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 Chayan Patra , Sonaldeep Halder , Rahul Maitra

Accurate quantum chemistry simulations remain challenging on classical computers for problems of industrially relevant sizes and there is reason for hope that quantum computing may help push the boundaries of what is technically feasible.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Vincent E. Elfving , Marta Millaruelo , José A. Gámez , Christian Gogolin

A universal quantum computer can simulate diverse quantum systems, with electronic structure for chemistry offering challenging problems for practical use cases around the hundred-qubit mark. While current quantum processors have reached…

In the study of non-adiabatic chemical processes such as photocatalysis and photosynthesis, non-adiabatic molecular dynamics (NAMD) is an indispensable theoretical tool, which requires precise potential energy surfaces (PESs) of ground and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Tianyi Li , Yumeng Zeng , Qiming Ding , Zixuan Huo , Xiaosi Xu , Jiajun Ren , Diandong Tang , Xiaoxia Cai , Xiao Yuan

Quantum--Mechanical methods that are both computationally fast and accurate are not yet available for electronic excitations having charge transfer character. In this work, we present a significant step forward towards this goal for those…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Michele Pavanello , Troy Van Voorhis , Lucas Visscher , Johannes Neugebauer

We developed a general framework for hybrid quantum-classical computing of molecular and periodic embedding approaches based on an orbital space separation of the fragment and environment degrees of freedom. We demonstrate its potential by…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-12-23 Stefano Battaglia , Max Rossmannek , Vladimir V. Rybkin , Ivano Tavernelli , Jürg Hutter

Quantum computers are appealing for their ability to solve some tasks much faster than their classical counterparts. It was shown in [Aspuru-Guzik et al., Science 309, 1704 (2005)] that they, if available, would be able to perform the full…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-19 Libor Veis , Jiří Pittner

In computational molecular science, calculation of electrostatic interactions involving charged atoms - the strongest interactions in condensed phases, is a major bottleneck. We propose a quantum-classical algorithm for fast, yet, accurate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Mansur Ziiatdinov , Igor Novikov , Farid Ablayev , Valeri Barsegov

Simulating chemical systems is highly sought after and computationally challenging, as the number of degrees of freedom increases exponentially with the size of the system. Quantum computers have been proposed as a computational means to…

Problems in quantum chemical simulations, especially achieving accurate excited-state potential energy surfaces, are among the primary applications to achieve quantum utility. On near-term quantum hardware, variants of the variational…

First quantized, grid-based methods for chemistry modelling are a natural and elegant fit for quantum computers. However, it is infeasible to use today's quantum prototypes to explore the power of this approach, because it requires a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-09 Hans Hon Sang Chan , Richard Meister , Tyson Jones , David P. Tew , Simon C. Benjamin

Quantum simulations of molecular systems on quantum computers often employ minimal basis sets of Gaussian orbitals. In comparison with more realistic basis sets, quantum simulations employing minimal basis sets require fewer qubits and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Stefano Barison , Davide Emilio Galli , Mario Motta

Using quantum computers to simulate polyatomic reaction dynamics has an exponential advantage in the amount of resources needed over classical computers. Here we demonstrate an exact simulation of the dynamics of the laser-driven…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-07 Kuntal Halder , Narendra N. Hegade , Bikash K. Behera , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

We present a highly flexible computational scheme for studying correlated electrons confined by an arbitrary external potential in two-dimensional semiconductor quantum dots. The method starts by a Lagrange mesh calculation for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-29 Tuukka Hiltunen , Juha Ritala , Oona Kupiainen , Topi Siro , Ari Harju

Quantum subspace diagonalization (QSD) methods are quantum-classical hybrid methods, commonly used to find ground and excited state energies by projecting the Hamiltonian to a smaller subspace. In applying these, the choice of subspace…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-23 Akhil Francis , Anjali A. Agrawal , Jack H. Howard , Efekan Kökcü , A. F. Kemper

We present a quantum algorithm for simulating quantum chemistry with gate complexity $\tilde{O}(N^{1/3} \eta^{8/3})$ where $\eta$ is the number of electrons and $N$ is the number of plane wave orbitals. In comparison, the most efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Ryan Babbush , Dominic W. Berry , Jarrod R. McClean , Hartmut Neven