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most citedQulacs: a fast and versatile quantum circuit simulator for research purpose

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quant-ph2025

Mirror subspace diagonalization: A real-time quantum Krylov algorithm with near-optimal sampling cost

Shota Kanasugi, Yuya O. Nakagawa, Norifumi Matsumoto +3

Quantum Krylov algorithms are a promising approach for ground-state energy estimation on near-term quantum computers. However, their sampling cost is inherently high because each H…

quant-ph2025

Application of resource theory based on free Clifford+kT computation to early fault-tolerant quantum computing

Yuya O. Nakagawa, Yasunori Lee

Recent advances in quantum hardware are bringing fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC) closer to reality. In the early stage of FTQC, however, the numbers of available logical qu…

quant-ph2025

Non-Hermitian Quantum Many-Body Scar Phase

Keita Omiya, Yuya O Nakagawa

We introduce a novel non-equilibrium phase -- the quantum many-body scar (QMBS) phase -- that emerges in non-Hermitian many-body dynamics when scarred wavefunctions are selectively…

quant-ph2024

Quantum expectation value estimation by doubling the number of qubits

Hiroshi Yano, Masaya Kohda, Shoichiro Tsutsui +4

Expectation value estimation is ubiquitous in quantum algorithms. The expectation value of a Hamiltonian, which is essential in various practical applications, is often estimated b…

quant-ph2024★ 13 cited

Quantum-selected configuration interaction with time-evolved state

Mathias Mikkelsen, Yuya O. Nakagawa

Quantum-selected configuration interaction (QSCI) utilizes an input quantum state on a quantum device to select important bases (electron configurations in quantum chemistry) that…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Quantum many-body simulation of finite-temperature systems with sampling a series expansion of a quantum imaginary-time evolution

Norifumi Matsumoto, Shoichiro Tsutsui, Yuya O. Nakagawa +5

Simulating thermal-equilibrium properties at finite temperature is crucial for studying quantum many-body systems. Quantum computers are expected to enable us to simulate large sys…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

Subspace-Based Local Compilation of Variational Quantum Circuits for Large-Scale Quantum Many-Body Simulation

Shota Kanasugi, Yuichiro Hidaka, Yuya O. Nakagawa +5

Simulation of quantum many-body systems is a promising application of quantum computers. However, implementing the time-evolution operator as a quantum circuit efficiently on near-…

quant-ph2023★ 36 cited

ADAPT-QSCI: Adaptive Construction of an Input State for Quantum-Selected Configuration Interaction

Yuya O. Nakagawa, Masahiko Kamoshita, Wataru Mizukami +2

We present a quantum-classical hybrid algorithm for calculating the ground state and its energy of the quantum many-body Hamiltonian by proposing an adaptive construction of a quan…

quant-ph2023★ 4 cited

Classical variational optimization of PREPARE circuit for quantum phase estimation of quantum chemistry Hamiltonians

Hayata Morisaki, Kosuke Mitarai, Keisuke Fujii +1

We propose a method for constructing circuits for quantum phase estimation of a molecular Hamiltonian in quantum chemistry by using variational optimization of q…

quant-ph2023★ 6 cited

Demonstrating Quantum Computation for Quasiparticle Band Structures

Takahiro Ohgoe, Hokuto Iwakiri, Masaya Kohda +4

Understanding and predicting the properties of solid-state materials from first-principles has been a great challenge for decades. Owing to the recent advances in quantum technolog…

quant-ph2023★ 18 cited

Accelerated variational quantum eigensolver with joint Bell measurement

Chenfeng Cao, Hiroshi Yano, Yuya O. Nakagawa

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) stands as a prominent quantum-classical hybrid algorithm for near-term quantum computers to obtain the ground states of molecular Hamilton…

quant-ph2023★ 9 cited

Computation of Green's function by local variational quantum compilation

Shota Kanasugi, Shoichiro Tsutsui, Yuya O. Nakagawa +3

Computation of the Green's function is crucial to study the properties of quantum many-body systems such as strongly correlated systems. Although the high-precision calculation of…

quant-ph2023★ 24 cited

Quantum-Selected Configuration Interaction: classical diagonalization of Hamiltonians in subspaces selected by quantum computers

Keita Kanno, Masaya Kohda, Ryosuke Imai +4

We propose quantum-selected configuration interaction (QSCI), a class of hybrid quantum-classical algorithms for calculating the ground- and excited-state energies of many-electron…

quant-ph2023★ 2 cited

Almost optimal measurement scheduling of molecular Hamiltonian via finite projective plane

Wataru Inoue, Koki Aoyama, Yusuke Teranishi +3

We propose an efficient and almost optimal scheme for measuring molecular Hamiltonians in quantum chemistry on quantum computers, which requires distinct measurements in the…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Averaging gate approximation error and performance of Unitary Coupled Cluster ansatz in Pre-FTQC Era

Kohdai Kuroiwa, Yuya O. Nakagawa

Fault-tolerant quantum computation (FTQC) is essential to implement quantum algorithms in a noise-resilient way, and thus to enjoy advantages of quantum computers even with presenc…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 10 cited

Analytical formulation of the second-order derivative of energy for orbital-optimized variational quantum eigensolver: application to polarizability

Yuya O. Nakagawa, Jiabao Chen, Shotaro Sudo +2

We develop a quantum-classical hybrid algorithm to calculate the analytical second-order derivative of the energy for the orbital-optimized variational quantum eigensolver (OO-VQE)…

quant-ph2022★ 31 cited

Local variational quantum compilation of a large-scale Hamiltonian dynamics

Kaoru Mizuta, Yuya O. Nakagawa, Kosuke Mitarai +1

Implementing time evolution operators on quantum circuits is important for quantum simulation. However, the standard way, Trotterization, requires a huge numbers of gates to achiev…

quant-ph2021★ 31 cited

Quantum expectation-value estimation by computational basis sampling

Masaya Kohda, Ryosuke Imai, Keita Kanno +3

Measuring expectation values of observables is an essential ingredient in variational quantum algorithms. A practical obstacle is the necessity of a large number of measurements fo…

quant-ph2021★ 12 cited

Molecular Structure Optimization based on Electrons-Nuclei Quantum Dynamics Computation

Hirotoshi Hirai, Takahiro Horiba, Soichi Shirai +4

A new concept of the molecular structure optimization method based on quantum dynamics computations is presented. Nuclei are treated as quantum mechanical particles, as are electro…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 20 cited

Non-normal Hamiltonian dynamics in quantum systems and its realization on quantum computers

Nobuyuki Okuma, Yuya O. Nakagawa

The eigenspectrum of a non-normal matrix, which does not commute with its Hermitian conjugate, is a central issue of non-Hermitian physics that has been extensively studied in the…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 27 cited

Analytical energy gradient for state-averaged orbital-optimized variational quantum eigensolvers and its application to a photochemical reaction

Keita Omiya, Yuya O. Nakagawa, Sho Koh +3

Elucidating photochemical reactions is vital to understand various biochemical phenomena and develop functional materials such as artificial photosynthesis and organic solar cells,…

quant-ph2021★ 7 cited

Calculating the Green's function of two-site Fermionic Hubbard model in a photonic system

Jie Zhu, Yuya O. Nakagawa, Chuan-Feng Li +2

The Green's function has been an indispensable tool to study many-body systems that remain one of the biggest challenges in modern quantum physics for decades. The complicated calc…

quant-ph2021★ 4 cited

Deep variational quantum eigensolver for excited states and its application to quantum chemistry calculation of periodic materials

Kaoru Mizuta, Mikiya Fujii, Shigeki Fujii +4

A programmable quantum device that has a large number of qubits without fault-tolerance has emerged recently. Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is one of the most promising way…

quant-ph2020★ 6 cited

Quadratic Clifford expansion for efficient benchmarking and initialization of variational quantum algorithms

Kosuke Mitarai, Yasunari Suzuki, Wataru Mizukami +2

Variational quantum algorithms are considered to be appealing applications of near-term quantum computers. However, it has been unclear whether they can outperform classical algori…