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

91 citations · 104 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

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…

quant-ph2026

Observation of Improved Accuracy over Classical Sparse Ground-State Solvers using a Quantum Computer

William Kirby, Bibek Pokharel, Javier Robledo Moreno +25

Demonstrating quantum advantage over classical algorithms for ground state energy problems is an outstanding open problem in quantum computation. We experimentally demonstrate that…

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

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…

quant-ph2025

ExtraFerm: An Extended Matchgate Simulator

Zack Hassman, Oliver Reardon-Smith, Gokul Subramanian Ravi +2

We present and open source Extraferm, a quantum circuit simulator tailored to chemistry applications. More specifically, our simulator can compute the Born-rule probabilities of sa…

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★ 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

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★ 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-…

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…