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Coarse-grained intermolecular interactions on quantum processors

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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
卷 105, 期 6, 页码 -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.105.062409

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  1. EPSRC National Quantum Technology Hub in Networked Quantum Information Technology [EP/M013243/1]
  2. National Research Foundation, Prime Minister's Office, Singapore
  3. Ministry of Education, Singapore
  4. Hartree National Centre for Digital Innovation program - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, United Kingdom
  5. EPSRC Hub in Quantum Computing and Simulation [EP/T001062/1]
  6. EPSRC [EP/T001062/1] Funding Source: UKRI

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The study develops a coarse-grained representation of electronic response suitable for determining the ground state of weakly interacting molecules using VQA, demonstrating its capability on IBM superconducting quantum processors and showing potential for probing energies in weakly bound regimes.
Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) are increasingly being applied in simulations of strongly bound (covalently bonded) systems using full molecular orbital basis representations. The application of quantum computers to the weakly bound intermolecular and noncovalently bonded regime, however, has remained largely unexplored. In this work, we develop a coarse-grained representation of the electronic response that is ideally suited for determining the ground state of weakly interacting molecules using a VQA. We require qubit numbers that grow linearly with the number of molecules and derive scaling behavior for the number of circuits and measurements required, which compare favorably to traditional variational quantum eigensolver methods. We demonstrate our method on IBM superconducting quantum processors and show its capability to resolve the dispersion energy as a function of separation for a pair of nonpolar molecules???thereby establishing a means by which quantum computers can model Van der Waals interactions directly from zero-point quantum fluctuations. Within this coarse-grained approximation, we conclude that current-generation quantum hardware is capable of probing energies in this weakly bound but nevertheless chemically ubiquitous and biologically important regime. Finally, we perform experiments on simulated and real quantum computers for systems of three, four, and five oscillators as well as oscillators with anharmonic onsite binding potentials; the consequences of the latter are unexamined in large systems using classical computational methods but can be incorporated here with low computational overhead.

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