A Method of Determining Excited-States for Quantum Computation

Abstract

A method is presented in which the ground-state subspace is projected out of a Hamiltonian representation. As a result of this projection, an effective Hamiltonian is constructed where its ground-state coincides with an excited-state of the original problem. Thus, low-lying excited-state energies can be calculated using existing hybrid-quantum classical techniques and variational algorithm(s) for determining ground-state. The method is shown to be fully valid for the H2 molecule. In addition, conditions for the method's success are discussed in terms of classes of Hamiltonians.

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