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20192025
most citedCorrelation-Informed Permutation of Qubits for Reducing Ansatz Depth in VQE

74 citations · 291 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

physics.chem-ph2025

Scalable Quantum Monte Carlo Method for Polariton Chemistry via Mixed Block Sparsity and Tensor Hypercontraction Method

Yu Zhang

We present a reduced-scaling auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) framework designed for large molecular systems and ensembles, with or without coupling to optical cavities.…

physics.comp-ph2024

Hybrid programming-model strategies for GPU offloading of electronic structure calculation kernels

Jean-Luc Fattebert, Christian F. A. Negre, Joshua Finkelstein +6

To address the challenge of performance portability, and facilitate the implementation of electronic structure solvers, we developed the Basic Matrix Library (BML) and Parallel, Ra…

physics.chem-ph2023

A Diffusion Quantum Monte Carlo Approach to the Polaritonic Ground State

Braden M. Weight, Sergei Tretiak, Yu Zhang

Making and using polaritonic states (i.e., hybrid electron-photon states) for chemical applications have recently become one of the most prominent and active fields that connects t…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 39 cited

Plasmon mediated coherent population oscillations in molecular aggregates

Daniel Timmer, Moritz Gittinger, Thomas Quenzel +9

The strong coherent coupling of quantum emitters to vacuum fluctuations of the light field offers opportunities for manipulating the optical and transport properties of nanomateria…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 8 cited

Machine Learning Framework for Modeling Exciton-Polaritons in Molecular Materials

Xinyang Li, Nicholas Lubbers, Sergei Tretiak +2

A light-matter hybrid quasiparticle, called a polariton, is formed when molecules are strongly coupled to an optical cavity. Recent experiments have shown that polariton chemistry…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 1 cited

Extended Lagrangian Born-Oppenheimer Molecular Dynamics with DFT+U

Yu Zhang, Marc J. Cawkwell, Christian F. A. Negre +2

Extended Lagrangian Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics (XL-BOMD) [Phys. Rev. Lett. vol. 100, 123004 (2008)] is combined with Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) using a DFT+…

physics.chem-ph2023

Spin-Polarized Extended Lagrangian Born-Oppenheimer Molecular Dynamics

Yu Zhang, Marc J. Cawkwell, Christian F. A. Negre +2

We present a generalization of Extended Lagrangian Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics [Phys. Rev. Lett. vol. 100, 123004 (2008); Eur. Phys. J. B vol. 94, 164 (2021)] that also inc…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 10 cited

Shadow molecular dynamics and atomic cluster expansions for flexible charge models

James Goff, Yu Zhang, Christian F. A. Negre +2

A shadow molecular dynamics scheme for flexible charge models is presented, where the shadow Born-Oppenheimer potential is derived from a coarse-grained approximation of range-sepa…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 2 cited

Theory and modeling of light-matter interactions in chemistry: current and future

Braden M. Weight, Xinyang Li, Yu Zhang

Light-matter interaction not only plays an instrumental role in characterizing materials' properties via various spectroscopic techniques but also provides a general strategy to ma…

quant-ph2023★ 3 cited

Quantum simulation of molecular response properties

Ashutosh Kumar, Ayush Asthana, Vibin Abraham +6

Accurate modeling of the response of molecular systems to an external electromagnetic field is challenging on classical computers, especially in the regime of strong electronic cor…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 14 cited

Molecular Dynamics Study of Plasmon-Mediated Chemical Transformations

Xiaoyan Wu, Tammo van der Heide, Thomas Frauenheim +3

Heterogeneous catalysis of adsorbates on metallic surfaces mediated by plasmon has potential high photoelectric conversion efficiency and controllable reaction selectivity. Theoret…

quant-ph2022★ 1 cited

Quantum self-consistent equation-of-motion method for computing molecular excitation energies, ionization potentials, and electron affinities on a quantum computer

Ayush Asthana, Ashutosh Kumar, Vibin Abraham +8

Near-term quantum computers are expected to facilitate material and chemical research through accurate molecular simulations. Several developments have already shown that accurate…

quant-ph2022★ 7 cited

Quantum Davidson Algorithm for Excited States

Nikolay V. Tkachenko, Lukasz Cincio, Alexander I. Boldyrev +3

Excited state properties play a pivotal role in various chemical and physical phenomena, such as charge separation and light emission. However, the primary focus of most existing q…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 4 cited

Accurate quantum simulation of molecular ground and excited states with a transcorrelated Hamiltonian

Ashutosh Kumar, Ayush Asthana, Conner Masteran +5

NISQ era devices suffer from a number of challenges like limited qubit connectivity, short coherence times and sizable gate error rates. Thus, quantum algorithms are desired that r…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 5 cited

QUBO-based density matrix electronic structure method

Christian F. A. Negre, Alejandro Lopez-Bezanilla, Yu Zhang +4

Density matrix electronic structure theory is used in many quantum chemistry methods to "alleviate" the computational cost that arises from directly using wave functions. Although…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 13 cited

Molecular Dynamics on Quantum Annealers

Igor Gayday, Dmitri Babikov, Alexander Teplukhin +5

In this work we demonstrate a practical prospect of using quantum annealers for simulation of molecular dynamics. A methodology developed for this goal, dubbed Quantum Differential…

physics.chem-ph2021

Computing molecular excited states on a D-Wave quantum annealer

Alexander Teplukhin, Brian K. Kendrick, Susan M. Mniszewski +6

The possibility of using quantum computers for electronic structure calculations has opened up a promising avenue for computational chemistry. Towards this direction, numerous algo…

quant-ph2021★ 67 cited

Variational Quantum Eigensolver with Reduced Circuit Complexity

Yu Zhang, Lukasz Cincio, Christian F. A. Negre +6

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is one of the most promising algorithms to find eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a given Hamiltonian on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (N…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 2 cited

Downfolding the Molecular Hamiltonian Matrix using Quantum Community Detection

Susan M. Mniszewski, Pavel A. Dub, Sergei Tretiak +3

Calculating the ground state energy of a molecule efficiently is of great interest in quantum chemistry. The exact numerical solution of the electronic Schrodinger equation remains…

quant-ph2020★ 74 cited

Correlation-Informed Permutation of Qubits for Reducing Ansatz Depth in VQE

Nikolay V. Tkachenko, James Sud, Yu Zhang +6

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is a method of choice to solve the electronic structure problem for molecules on near-term gate-based quantum computers. However, the circ…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 41 cited

Non-Adiabatic Molecular Dynamics of Molecules in the Presence of Strong Light-Matter Interactions

Yu Zhang, Tammie Nelson, Sergei Tretiak

When the interaction between a molecular system and confined light modes in an optical or plasmonic cavity is strong enough to overcome the dissipative process, hybrid light-matter…