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Implementation of a Quantum-simulation Algorithm of Calculating Molecular Ground-state Energy on an NMR Quantum Computer

Quantum Physics 2009-07-22 v2

Abstract

It is exponentially hard to simulate quantum systems by classical algorithms, while quantum computer could in principle solve this problem polynomially. We demonstrate such an quantum-simulation algorithm on our NMR system to simulate an hydrogen molecule and calculate its ground-state energy. We utilize the NMR interferometry method to measure the phase shift and iterate the process to get a high precision. Finally we get 17 precise bits of the energy value, and we also analyze the source of the error in the simulation.

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@article{arxiv.0907.3642,
  title  = {Implementation of a Quantum-simulation Algorithm of Calculating Molecular Ground-state Energy on an NMR Quantum Computer},
  author = {Jiangfeng Du and Nanyang Xu and Xinhua Peng and Pengfei Wang and Sanfeng Wu and Dawei Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.3642},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures, and 1 table

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