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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 151, Issue 16, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.5110682
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Ontario Early Researcher Award
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Solving the electronic structure problem on a universal-gate quantum computer within the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) methodology requires constraining the search procedure to a subspace defined by relevant physical symmetries. Ignoring symmetries results in convergence to the lowest eigenstate of the Fock space for the second quantized electronic Hamiltonian. Moreover, this eigenstate can be symmetry broken due to limitations of the wavefunction ansatz. To address this VQE problem, we introduce and assess methods of exact and approximate projectors to irreducible eigensubspaces of available physical symmetries. Feasibility of symmetry projectors in the VQE framework is discussed, and their efficiency is compared with symmetry constraint optimization procedures. Generally, projectors introduce a higher number of terms for VQE measurement compared to the constraint approach. On the other hand, the projection formalism improves accuracy of the variational wavefunction ansatz without introducing additional unitary transformations, which is beneficial for reducing depths of quantum circuits. Published under license by AIP Publishing.
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