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AGP-based unitary coupled cluster theory for quantum computers

Quantum Physics 2022-11-02 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons Chemical Physics

Abstract

Electronic structure methods typically benefit from symmetry breaking and restoration, specially in the strong correlation regime. The same goes for Ans\"atze on a quantum computer. We develop a unitary coupled cluster method on the antisymmetrized geminal power (AGP) -- a state formally equivalent to the number-projected Bardeen--Cooper--Schrieffer wavefunction. We demonstrate our method for the single-band Fermi--Hubbard Hamiltonian in one and two dimensions. We also explore post-selection as a state preparation step to obtain correlated AGP and prove that it scales no worse than O(M)\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{M}) in the number of measurements, thereby making it a less expensive alternative to gauge integration to restore particle number symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.2205.13420,
  title  = {AGP-based unitary coupled cluster theory for quantum computers},
  author = {Armin Khamoshi and Guo P. Chen and Francesco A. Evangelista and Gustavo E. Scuseria},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.13420},
  year   = {2022}
}
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