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most citedChemistry Beyond the Scale of Exact Diagonalization on a Quantum-Centric Supercomputer

91 citations · 266 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

quant-ph2026

Polynomial-time exact diagonalization via sparse guided eigenwalks

Zachary E. Chin, Mario Motta, Javier Robledo Moreno +3

Computing quantum ground states is generically difficult, but additional structure can sometimes allow diagonalization to be recast as a more feasible problem. For example, when th…

quant-ph2026

ffsim: Faster simulation of fermionic quantum circuits

Kevin J. Sung, Inho Choi, Mirko Amico +14

We present ffsim, an open-source software library for fast simulation of fermionic quantum circuits. ffsim exploits conservation of particle number and the z component of spin, sym…

quant-ph2026★ 1 cited

Crossing the 12,000-atom barrier with heterogeneous quantum-classical supercomputing: quantum chemistry of protein-ligand complexes

Kenneth M. Merz, Akhil Shajan, Danil Kaliakin +21

We develop a workflow decomposing a molecule into fragments via quantum embedding and simulating them with a heterogeneous quantum-classical (HQC) method. We sample fragment electr…

physics.chem-ph2025

Sample-based quantum diagonalization as parallel fragment solver for the localized active space self-consistent field method

Qiaohong Wang, Mario Motta, Ruhee D'Cunha +7

Accurately and efficiently describing strongly correlated electronic systems is a central challenge in quantum computational chemistry, with classical and quantum computers. The lo…

quant-ph2025

Closed-loop calculations of electronic structure on a quantum processor and a classical supercomputer at full scale

Tomonori Shirakawa, Javier Robledo-Moreno, Toshinari Itoko +18

Quantum computers must operate in concert with classical computers to deliver on the promise of quantum advantage for practical problems. To achieve that, it is important to unders…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Quantum-centric simulation of hydrogen abstraction by sample-based quantum diagonalization and entanglement forging

Tyler Smith, Tanvi P. Gujarati, Mario Motta +11

The simulation of electronic systems is an anticipated application for quantum-centric computers, i.e. heterogeneous architectures where classical and quantum processing units oper…

quant-ph2025★ 3 cited

Quantum chemistry with provable convergence via randomized sample-based Krylov quantum diagonalization

Samuele Piccinelli, Alberto Baiardi, Stefano Barison +12

Quantum algorithms based on classical processing of individual samples have recently emerged as a promising route to perform large-scale quantum-chemical calculations on pre-fault-…

quant-ph2025

Symmetry-guided quantum state preparation: Branched-Subspaces Adiabatic Preparation (B-SAP)

Davide Cugini, Giacomo Guarnieri, Mario Motta +1

Quantum state preparation lies at the heart of quantum computation and quantum simulations, enabling the investigation of complex manybody systems across physics, chemistry, and da…

quant-ph2025

Non-equilibrium thermodynamics of precision through a quantum-centric computation

Mario Motta, Antonio Mezzacapo, Giacomo Guarnieri

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) are a set of inequalities expressing a fundamental trade-off between precision and dissipation in non-equilibrium classical and quantum t…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Enhancing the accuracy and efficiency of sample-based quantum diagonalization with phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo

Don Danilov, Javier Robledo-Moreno, Kevin J. Sung +2

Quantum Selected Configuration Interaction (QSCI) and an extended protocol known as Sample-based Quantum Diagonalization (SQD) have emerged as promising algorithms to solve the ele…

quant-ph2025★ 6 cited

Quantum-Centric Algorithm for Sample-Based Krylov Diagonalization

Jeffery Yu, Javier Robledo Moreno, Joseph T. Iosue +17

Approximating the ground state of many-body systems is a key computational bottleneck underlying important applications in physics and chemistry. The most widely known quantum algo…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

Towards quantum-centric simulations of extended molecules: sample-based quantum diagonalization enhanced with density matrix embedding theory

Akhil Shajan, Danil Kaliakin, Abhishek Mitra +9

Computing ground-state properties of molecules is a promising application for quantum computers operating in concert with classical high-performance computing resources. Quantum em…

quant-ph2024★ 6 cited

Accurate quantum-centric simulations of supramolecular interactions

Danil Kaliakin, Akhil Shajan, Javier Robledo Moreno +9

We present the first quantum-centric simulations of noncovalent interactions using a supramolecular approach. We simulate the potential energy surfaces (PES) of the water and metha…

quant-ph2024★ 33 cited

Quantum-centric computation of molecular excited states with extended sample-based quantum diagonalization

Stefano Barison, Javier Robledo Moreno, Mario Motta

The simulation of molecular electronic structure is an important application of quantum devices. Recently, it has been shown that quantum devices can be effectively combined with c…

quant-ph2024

Quantum algorithms for the variational optimization of correlated electronic states with stochastic reconfiguration and the linear method

Mario Motta, Kevin J. Sung, James Shee

Solving the electronic Schrodinger equation for strongly correlated ground states is a long-standing challenge. We present quantum algorithms for the variational optimization of wa…

quant-ph2024★ 23 cited

Diagonalization of large many-body Hamiltonians on a quantum processor

Nobuyuki Yoshioka, Mirko Amico, William Kirby +16

The estimation of low energies of many-body systems is a cornerstone of computational quantum sciences. Variational quantum algorithms can be used to prepare ground states on pre-f…

quant-ph2024★ 91 cited

Chemistry Beyond the Scale of Exact Diagonalization on a Quantum-Centric Supercomputer

Javier Robledo-Moreno, Mario Motta, Holger Haas +14

A universal quantum computer can simulate diverse quantum systems, with electronic structure for chemistry offering challenging problems for practical use cases around the hundred-…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 5 cited

Distinguishing homolytic versus heterolytic bond dissociation of phenyl sulfonium cations with localized active space methods

Qiaohong Wang, Valay Agarawal, Matthew R. Hermes +4

Modeling chemical reactions with quantum chemical methods is challenging when the electronic structure varies significantly throughout the reaction, as well as when electronic exci…

quant-ph2023★ 85 cited

Quantum-centric Supercomputing for Materials Science: A Perspective on Challenges and Future Directions

Yuri Alexeev, Maximilian Amsler, Paul Baity +124

Computational models are an essential tool for the design, characterization, and discovery of novel materials. Hard computational tasks in materials science stretch the limits of e…

quant-ph2023★ 4 cited

Subspace methods for electronic structure simulations on quantum computers

Mario Motta, William Kirby, Ieva Liepuoniute +7

Quantum subspace methods (QSMs) are a class of quantum computing algorithms where the time-independent Schrodinger equation for a quantum system is projected onto a subspace of the…

quant-ph2023★ 3 cited

Quantum algorithm for imaginary-time Green's functions

Diksha Dhawan, Dominika Zgid, Mario Motta

Green's function methods lead to ab initio, systematically improvable simulations of molecules and materials while providing access to multiple experimentally observable properties…

quant-ph2023

Quantum computation of and excited states of aromatic heterocycles

Maria A. Castellanos, Mario Motta, Julia E. Rice

The computation of excited electronic states is an important application for quantum computers. In this work, we simulate the excited state spectra of four aromatic heterocycles on…