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54 citations · 107 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.chem-ph2026

Strictly localized orbitals from spatial partitioning with the discontinuous Galerkin method

César Feniou, Julien Toulouse

We present a rigorous electronic-structure theory of strictly localized orbitals associated with a spatial partition of the one-electron Hilbert space that remains well defined in…

quant-ph2026

The Convergence Frontier: Integrating Machine Learning and High Performance Quantum Computing for Next-Generation Drug Discovery

Narjes Ansari, César Feniou, Nicolaï Gouraud +13

Integrating quantum mechanics into drug discovery marks a decisive shift from empirical trial-and-error toward quantitative precision. However, the prohibitive cost of ab initio mo…

quant-ph2026

High Performance Quantum Emulation for Chemistry Applications with Hyperion

Olivier Adjoua, Siwar Badreddine, César Feniou +4

The strategic demand for quantum hardware currently outpaces the availability of near-term devices, necessitating high-performance software emulators to validate novel protocols. W…

quant-ph2026

Logarithmic-depth quantum state preparation of polynomials

Baptiste Claudon, Alexis Lucas, Jean-Philip Piquemal +2

Quantum state preparation is a central primitive in many quantum algorithms, yet it is generally resource intensive, with efficient constructions known only for structured families…

quant-ph2025

An Optimized Construction of Lie Algebra Generator Pools for Variational Quantum Eigensolvers in Chemistry

Yaromir Viswanathan, Olivier Adjoua, César Feniou +2

Lie algebras are essential mathematical structures used in physics to describe sets of quantum operators. Identifying a minimal set of generators to construct these algebras is a c…

quant-ph2025

Real-Space Chemistry on Quantum Computers: A Fault-Tolerant Algorithm with Adaptive Grids and Transcorrelated Extension

César Feniou, Christopher Cherfan, Julien Zylberman +3

First-quantized, real-space formulations of quantum chemistry on quantum computers are appealing: qubit count scales logarithmically with spatial resolution, and Coulomb operators…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 7 cited

Shortcut to Chemically Accurate Quantum Computing via Density-based Basis-set Correction

Diata Traore, Olivier Adjoua, César Feniou +8

Using GPU-accelerated state-vector emulation, we propose to embed a quantum computing ansatz into density-functional theory via density-based basis-set corrections (DBBSC) to obtai…

quant-ph2023★ 19 cited

Polylogarithmic-depth controlled-NOT gates without ancilla qubits

Baptiste Claudon, Julien Zylberman, César Feniou +3

Controlled operations are fundamental building blocks of quantum algorithms. Decomposing -control-NOT gates () into arbitrary single-qubit and CNOT gates, is a crucial b…

quant-ph2023★ 21 cited

Sparse Quantum State Preparation for Strongly Correlated Systems

C. Feniou, O. Adjoua, B. Claudon +3

Quantum Computing allows, in principle, the encoding of the exponentially scaling many-electron wave function onto a linearly scaling qubit register, offering a promising solution…

quant-ph2023★ 6 cited

Greedy Gradient-free Adaptive Variational Quantum Algorithms on a Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum Computer

César Feniou, Muhammad Hassan, Baptiste Claudon +4

Hybrid quantum-classical adaptive Variational Quantum Eigensolvers (VQE) hold the potential to outperform classical computing for simulating many-body quantum systems. However, pra…

quant-ph2023★ 54 cited

Overlap-ADAPT-VQE: Practical Quantum Chemistry on Quantum Computers via Overlap-Guided Compact Ansätze

César Feniou, Muhammad Hassan, Diata Traoré +3

ADAPT-VQE is a robust algorithm for hybrid quantum-classical simulations of quantum chemical systems on near-term quantum computers. While its iterative process systematically reac…