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most citedOverlap-ADAPT-VQE: Practical Quantum Chemistry on Quantum Computers via Overlap-Guided Compact Ansätze

54 citations

29 papers

physics.chem-ph2026

Faster Molecular Dynamics with Neural Network Potentials via Distilled Multiple Time-Stepping and Non-Conservative Forces

Nicolaï Gouraud, Côme Cattin, Thomas Plé +3

Following our previous work (J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2026, 17, 5, 1288-1295), we propose the DMTS-NC approach, a distilled multi-time-step (DMTS) strategy using non-conservative (NC)…

physics.chem-ph2025

QMCkl: A Kernel Library for Quantum Monte Carlo Applications

Emiel Slootman, Vijay Gopal Chilkuri, Aurelien Delval +16

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods deliver highly accurate electronic structure calculations but are computationally intensive. The quantum Monte Carlo kernel library (QMCkl) provid…

quant-ph2025

Practical protein-pocket hydration-site prediction for drug discovery on a quantum computer

Daniele Loco, Kisa Barkemeyer, Andre R. R. Carvalho +1

Demonstrating the practical utility of Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) hardware for recurrent tasks in Computer-Aided Drug Discovery is of paramount importance. We tackle t…

physics.chem-ph2025

Dual-LAO for calculating fast and robust relative binding free energies of simple and complex transformations

Narjes Ansari, Félix Aviat, Jérôme Hénin +2

Relative Binding Free Energy (RBFE) calculations are a cornerstone of rational hit-to-lead and lead optimization in modern drug discovery. However, the high computational cost and…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 1 cited

Accelerating Molecular Dynamics Simulations with Foundation Neural Network Models using Multiple Time-Step and Distillation

Côme Cattin, Thomas Plé, Olivier Adjoua +3

We present a distilled multi-time-step (DMTS) strategy to accelerate molecular dynamics simulations using foundation neural network models. DMTS uses a dual-level neural network wh…

quant-ph2025

Real-Space Chemistry on Quantum Computers: A Fault-Tolerant Algorithm with Adaptive Grids and Transcorrelated Extension

César Feniou, Christopher Cherfan, Julien Zylberman +3

First-quantized, real-space formulations of quantum chemistry on quantum computers are appealing: qubit count scales logarithmically with spatial resolution, and Coulomb operators…

quant-ph2025

Quantum Circuits for the Metropolis-Hastings Algorithm

Baptiste Claudon, Pablo Rodenas-Ruiz, Jean-Philip Piquemal +1

Szegedy's quantization of a reversible Markov chain provides a quantum walk whose spectral gap is quadratically larger than that of the classical walk. Quantum computers are theref…

quant-ph2025★ 15 cited

Nonlinear Domain Engineering for Quantum Technologies

Tim F. Weiss, Alberto Peruzzo

The continuously growing effort towards developing real-world quantum technological applications has come to demand an increasing amount of flexibility from its respective platform…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 2 cited

Interactive visualization of large molecular systems with VTX: example with a minimal whole-cell model

Maxime Maria, Valentin Guillaume, Simon Guionniere +10

VTX is an open-source molecular visualization software designed to overcome the scaling limitations of existing real-time molecular visualization software when handling massive mol…

physics.chem-ph2025★ 5 cited

Lambda-ABF-OPES: Faster Convergence with High Accuracy in Alchemical Free Energy Calculations

Narjes Ansari, Zhifeng Francis Jing, Antoine Gagelin +5

Predicting the binding affinity between small molecules and target macromolecules while combining both speed and accuracy, is a cornerstone of modern computational drug discovery w…

cs.GR2025★ 6 cited

VTX: Real-time high-performance molecular structure and dynamics visualization software

Maxime Maria, Simon Guionnière, Nicolas Dacquay +10

Summary: VTX is a molecular visualization software capable to handle most molecular structures and dynamics trajectories file formats. It features a real-time high-performance mole…

quant-ph2025

Quantum Speedup for Nonreversible Markov Chains

Baptiste Claudon, Jean-Philip Piquemal, Pierre Monmarché

Quantum algorithms can potentially solve a handful of problems more efficiently than their classical counterparts. In that context, it has been discussed that Markov chains problem…

physics.comp-ph2024★ 3 cited

Velocity Jumps for Molecular Dynamics

Nicolaï Gouraud, Louis Lagardère, Olivier Adjoua +3

We introduce the Velocity Jumps approach, denoted as JUMP, a new class of Molecular dynamics integrators, replacing the Langevin dynamics by a hybrid model combining a classical La…

quant-ph2024★ 40 cited

Artificial Intelligence for Quantum Computing

Yuri Alexeev, Marwa H. Farag, Taylor L. Patti +25

Artificial intelligence (AI) advancements over the past few years have had an unprecedented and revolutionary impact across everyday application areas. Its significance also extend…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

Non-Iterative Disentangled Unitary Coupled-Cluster based on Lie-algebraic structure

Mohammad Haidar, Olivier Adjoua, Siwar Baddredine +2

Due to their non-iterative nature, fixed Unitary Coupled-Cluster (UCC) ansätze are attractive for performing quantum chemistry Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) computations as…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 9 cited

Toward improved property prediction of 2D materials using many-body quantum Monte Carlo methods

Daniel Wines, Jeonghwan Ahn, Anouar Benali +10

The field of two-dimensional (2D) materials has grown dramatically in the last two decades. 2D materials can be utilized for a variety of next-generation optoelectronic, spintronic…

quant-ph2024★ 15 cited

Programmable quantum circuits in a large-scale photonic waveguide array

Yang Yang, Robert J. Chapman, Akram Youssry +4

Over the past decade, integrated quantum photonic technologies have shown great potential as a platform for studying quantum phenomena and realizing large-scale quantum information…

physics.optics2024★ 4 cited

A fixed phase tunable directional coupler based on coupling tuning

Yang Yang, Tim Weiss, Hamed Arianfard +2

The field of photonic integrated circuits has witnessed significant progress in recent years, with a growing demand for devices that offer high-performance reconfigurability. Due t…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 7 cited

Shortcut to Chemically Accurate Quantum Computing via Density-based Basis-set Correction

Diata Traore, Olivier Adjoua, César Feniou +8

Using GPU-accelerated state-vector emulation, we propose to embed a quantum computing ansatz into density-functional theory via density-based basis-set corrections (DBBSC) to obtai…

quant-ph2023★ 19 cited

Polylogarithmic-depth controlled-NOT gates without ancilla qubits

Baptiste Claudon, Julien Zylberman, César Feniou +3

Controlled operations are fundamental building blocks of quantum algorithms. Decomposing -control-NOT gates () into arbitrary single-qubit and CNOT gates, is a crucial b…

physics.optics2023★ 43 cited

Programmable high-dimensional Hamiltonian in a photonic waveguide array

Yang Yang, Robert J. Chapman, Ben Haylock +4

Waveguide lattices offer a compact and stable platform for a range of applications, including quantum walks, topological effects, condensed matter system simulation, and classical…

quant-ph2023★ 21 cited

Sparse Quantum State Preparation for Strongly Correlated Systems

C. Feniou, O. Adjoua, B. Claudon +3

Quantum Computing allows, in principle, the encoding of the exponentially scaling many-electron wave function onto a linearly scaling qubit register, offering a promising solution…

quant-ph2023★ 11 cited

Leveraging Analog Quantum Computing with Neutral Atoms for Solvent Configuration Prediction in Drug Discovery

Mauro D'Arcangelo, Daniele Loco, Fresnel team +8

We introduce quantum algorithms able to sample equilibrium water solvent molecules configurations within proteins thanks to analog quantum computing. To do so, we combine a quantum…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 23 cited

Lambda-ABF: Simplified, Portable, Accurate and Cost-effective Alchemical Free Energy Computations

Louis Lagardère, Lise Maurin, Olivier Adjoua +4

We introduce an efficient and robust method to compute alchemical free energy differences, resulting from the application of multiple walker Adaptive Biasing Force (ABF) in conjunc…