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5 papers

quant-ph2026

Protein-Ligand Free Energy Perturbation on Quantum Hardware

Zhen Li, Milana Bazayeva, Thaddeus Pellegrini +6

The use of free energy perturbation (FEP) methods to study protein-ligand complexes is one of the most important tools in structure-based drug design. Because FEP methods typically…

quant-ph2026

Molecular Quantum Computations on a Protein

Akhil Shajan, Danil Kaliakin, Fangchun Liang +7

This work presents the implementation of a fragment-based, quantum-centric supercomputing workflow for computing molecular electronic structure using quantum hardware. The workflow…

quant-ph2025

Improved parameter initialization for the (local) unitary cluster Jastrow ansatz

Wan-Hsuan Lin, Fangchun Liang, Mario Motta +3

The unitary cluster Jastrow (UCJ) ansatz and its variant known as local UCJ (LUCJ) are promising choices for variational quantum algorithms for chemistry due to their combination o…

physics.chem-ph2025

Quantum-Centric Alchemical Free Energy Calculations

Milana Bazayeva, Zhen Li, Danil Kaliakin +4

In the present work, we present a hybrid quantum-classical workflow aimed at improving the accuracy of alchemical free energy (AFE) predictions by incorporating configuration inter…

quant-ph2025

Implicit solvent sample-based quantum diagonalization

Danil Kaliakin, Akhil Shajan, Fangchun Liang +1

The sample-based quantum diagonalization (SQD) method shows great promise in quantum-centric simulations of ground state energies in molecular systems. Inclusion of solute-solvent…