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quant-ph2024★ 35 cited

Simulating Chemistry on Bosonic Quantum Devices

Rishab Dutta, Delmar G. A. Cabral, Ningyi Lyu +23

Bosonic quantum devices offer a novel approach to realize quantum computations, where the quantum two-level system (qubit) is replaced with the quantum (an)harmonic oscillator (qum…

quant-ph2023★ 5 cited

Simulating quantum error mitigation in fermionic encodings

Riley W. Chien, Kanav Setia, Xavier Bonet-Monroig +2

The most scalable proposed methods of simulating lattice fermions on noisy quantum computers employ encodings that eliminate nonlocal operators using a constant factor more qubits…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 5 cited

Optical Conductivity Signatures of Floquet Electronic Phases

Andrew Cupo, Joshuah T. Heath, Emilio Cobanera +3

Optical conductivity measurements may provide access to distinct signatures of Floquet electronic phases, which are described theoretically by their quasienergy band structures. We…

quant-ph2022★ 3 cited

Basis set generation and optimization in the NISQ era with Quiqbox.jl

Weishi Wang, James D. Whitfield

In the noisy intermediate-scale quantum era, ab initio computation of the electronic structure problems has become one of the major benchmarks for identifying the boundary between…

quant-ph2022★ 4 cited

Reducing the qubit requirement of Jordan-Wigner encodings of -mode, -fermion systems from to

Brent Harrison, Dylan Nelson, Daniel Adamiak +1

To simulate a fermionic system on a quantum computer, it is necessary to encode the state of the fermions onto qubits. Fermion-to-qubit mappings such as the Jordan-Wigner and Bravy…

quant-ph2022★ 8 cited

Machine-learning Kohn-Sham potential from dynamics in time-dependent Kohn-Sham systems

Jun Yang, James D Whitfield

The construction of a better exchange-correlation potential in time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) can improve the accuracy of TDDFT calculations and provide more accu…

quant-ph2022

Quantum Computing 2022

James D. Whitfield, Jun Yang, Weishi Wang +2

Quantum technology is full of figurative and literal noise obscuring its promise. In this overview, we will attempt to provide a sober assessment of the promise of quantum technolo…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 6 cited

Floquet Graphene Antidot Lattices

Andrew Cupo, Emilio Cobanera, James D. Whitfield +2

We establish the theoretical foundation of the Floquet graphene antidot lattice, whereby massless Dirac fermions are driven periodically by a circularly polarized electromagnetic f…

quant-ph2021★ 6 cited

Electronic Structure in a Fixed Basis is QMA-complete

Bryan O'Gorman, Sandy Irani, James Whitfield +1

Finding the ground state energy of electrons subject to an external electric field is a fundamental problem in computational chemistry. We prove that this electronic-structure prob…

physics.ed-ph2020★ 98 cited

Achieving a quantum smart workforce

Clarice D. Aiello, D. D. Awschalom, Hannes Bernien +29

Interest in building dedicated Quantum Information Science and Engineering (QISE) education programs has greatly expanded in recent years. These programs are inherently convergent,…

quant-ph2020★ 10 cited

Custom fermionic codes for quantum simulation

Riley W. Chien, James D. Whitfield

Simulating a fermionic system on a quantum computer requires encoding the anti-commuting fermionic variables into the operators acting on the qubit Hilbert space. The most familiar…

physics.comp-ph2020★ 9 cited

Limitations of Hartree-Fock with quantum resources

Sahil Gulania, James Daniel Whitfield

The Hartree-Fock problem provides the conceptual and mathematical underpinning of a large portion of quantum chemistry. As efforts in quantum technology aim to enhance computationa…

physics.pop-ph2020

Understanding the Schrodinger equation as a kinematic statement: A probability-first approach to quantum

James Daniel Whitfield

Quantum technology is seeing a remarkable explosion in interest due to a wave of successful commercial technology. As a wider array of engineers and scientists are needed, it is ti…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 1.2k cited

Recent developments in the PySCF program package

Qiming Sun, Xing Zhang, Samragni Banerjee +46

PYSCF is a Python-based general-purpose electronic structure platform that both supports first-principles simulations of molecules and solids, as well as accelerates the developmen…

quant-ph2019★ 126 cited

Reducing qubit requirements for quantum simulation using molecular point group symmetries

Kanav Setia, Richard Chen, Julia E. Rice +3

Simulating molecules is believed to be one of the early-stage applications for quantum computers. Current state-of-the-art quantum computers are limited in size and coherence, ther…

quant-ph2019★ 4 cited

A comparison of three ways to measure time-dependent densities with quantum simulators

Jun Yang, James Brown, James Daniel Whitfield

Quantum algorithms are touted as a way around some classically intractable problems such as the simulation of quantum mechanics. At the end of all quantum algorithms is a quantum m…

quant-ph2019★ 9 cited

Analysis of Superfast Encoding Performance for Electronic Structure Simulations

Riley W. Chien, Sha Xue, Tarini S. Hardikar +2

In our recent work, we have examined various fermion to qubit mappings in the context of quantum simulation including the original Bravyi-Kitaev Superfast encoding (OSE) as well as…

quant-ph2019★ 10 cited

Solver for the electronic V-representation problem of time-dependent density functional theory

James Brown, Jun Yang, James D Whitfield

One route to numerically propagating quantum systems is time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). The application of TDDFT to a particular system's time evolution is predic…

physics.chem-ph2019★ 1 cited

Young frames for quantum chemistry

Sahil Gulania, James Daniel Whitfield

Quantum chemistry often considers atoms and molecules with non-zero spin. In such cases, the need for proper spin functions results in the theory of configuration state functions.…

physics.chem-ph2018★ 2 cited

Basis set convergence of Wilson basis functions for electronic structure

James Brown, James D. Whitfield

There are many ways to numerically represent of chemical systems in order to compute their electronic structure. Basis functions may be localized in real-space (atomic orbitals), i…

quant-ph2018★ 105 cited

Superfast encodings for fermionic quantum simulation

Kanav Setia, Sergey Bravyi, Antonio Mezzacapo +1

Simulation of fermionic many-body systems on a quantum computer requires a suitable encoding of fermionic degrees of freedom into qubits. Here we revisit the Superfast Encoding int…

quant-ph2017★ 96 cited

Bravyi-Kitaev Superfast simulation of fermions on a quantum computer

Kanav Setia, James D. Whitfield

Present quantum computers often work with distinguishable qubits as their computational units. In order to simulate indistinguishable fermionic particles, it is first required to m…

quant-ph2017★ 29 cited

Generalized Pauli constraints in small atoms

Christian Schilling, Murat Altunbulak, Stefan Knecht +5

The natural occupation numbers of fermionic systems are subject to non-trivial constraints, which include and extend the original Pauli principle. A recent mathematical breakthroug…

quant-ph2017★ 19 cited

Hardware-efficient fermionic simulation with a cavity-QED system

Guanyu Zhu, Yigit Subasi, James D. Whitfield +1

In digital quantum simulation of fermionic models with qubits, non-local maps for encoding are often encountered. Such maps require linear or logarithmic overhead in circuit depth…