Improving the accuracy of quantum computational chemistry using the transcorrelated method

Abstract

Accurately treating electron correlation in the wavefunction is a key challenge for both classical and quantum computational chemistry. Classical methods have been developed which explicitly account for this correlation by incorporating inter-electronic distances into the wavefunction. The transcorrelated method transfers this explicit correlation from the wavefunction to a transformed, non-Hermitian Hamiltonian, whose right-hand eigenvectors become easier to obtain than those of the original Hamiltonian. In this work, we show that the transcorrelated method can reduce the resources required to obtain accurate energies from electronic structure calculations on quantum computers. We overcome the limitations introduced by the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian by using quantum algorithms for imaginary time evolution.

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