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Biology and medicine in the landscape of quantum advantages
Benjamin A. Cordier, Nicolas P. D. Sawaya, Gian G. Guerreschi +1
Quantum computing holds significant potential for applications in biology and medicine, spanning from the simulation of biomolecules to machine learning approaches for subtyping ca…
Quantum technologies for climate change: Preliminary assessment
Casey Berger, Agustin Di Paolo, Tracey Forrest +4
Climate change presents an existential threat to human societies and the Earth's ecosystems more generally. Mitigation strategies naturally require solving a wide range of challeng…
Graph Optimization Perspective for Low-Depth Trotter-Suzuki Decomposition
Albert T. Schmitz, Nicolas P. D. Sawaya, Sonika Johri +1
Hamiltonian simulation represents an important module in a large class of quantum algorithms and simulations such as quantum machine learning, quantum linear algebra methods, and m…
Analog quantum simulation of non-Condon effects in molecular spectroscopy
Hamza Jnane, Nicolas P. D. Sawaya, Borja Peropadre +3
In this work, we present a linear optical implementation for analog quantum simulation of molecular vibronic spectra, incorporating the non-Condon scattering operation with a quadr…
Near- and long-term quantum algorithmic approaches for vibrational spectroscopy
Nicolas P. D. Sawaya, Francesco Paesani, Daniel P. Tabor
Determining the vibrational structure of a molecule is central to fundamental applications in several areas, from atmospheric science to catalysis, fuel combustion modeling, bioche…
Quantum computer-aided design: digital quantum simulation of quantum processors
Thi Ha Kyaw, Tim Menke, Sukin Sim +5
With the increasing size of quantum processors, sub-modules that constitute the processor hardware will become too large to accurately simulate on a classical computer. Therefore,…
On connectivity-dependent resource requirements for digital quantum simulation of -level particles
Nicolas P. D. Sawaya, Gian Giacomo Guerreschi, Adam Holmes
A primary objective of quantum computation is to efficiently simulate quantum physics. Scientifically and technologically important quantum Hamiltonians include those with spin-…
Intel Quantum Simulator: A cloud-ready high-performance simulator of quantum circuits
Gian Giacomo Guerreschi, Justin Hogaboam, Fabio Baruffa +1
Classical simulation of quantum computers will continue to play an essential role in the progress of quantum information science, both for numerical studies of quantum algorithms a…
Resource-efficient digital quantum simulation of -level systems for photonic, vibrational, and spin- Hamiltonians
Nicolas P. D. Sawaya, Tim Menke, Thi Ha Kyaw +3
Simulation of quantum systems is expected to be one of the most important applications of quantum computing, with much of the theoretical work so far having focused on fermionic an…
Quantum Chemistry in the Age of Quantum Computing
Yudong Cao, Jonathan Romero, Jonathan P. Olson +10
Practical challenges in simulating quantum systems on classical computers have been widely recognized in the quantum physics and quantum chemistry communities over the past century…
Quantum algorithm for calculating molecular vibronic spectra
Nicolas P. D. Sawaya, Joonsuk Huh
We present a quantum algorithm for calculating the vibronic spectrum of a molecule, a useful but classically hard problem in chemistry. We show several advantages over previous qua…
Temperature-dependent conformations of exciton-coupled Cy3 dimers in double-stranded DNA
Loni Kringle, Nicolas P. D. Sawaya, Julia Widom +4
Understanding the properties of electronically interacting molecular chromophores, which involve internally coupled electronic-vibrational motions, is important to the spectroscopy…
OpenFermion: The Electronic Structure Package for Quantum Computers
Jarrod R. McClean, Kevin J. Sung, Ian D. Kivlichan +32
Quantum simulation of chemistry and materials is predicted to be an important application for both near-term and fault-tolerant quantum devices. However, at present, developing and…
qTorch: The Quantum Tensor Contraction Handler
E. Schuyler Fried, Nicolas P. D. Sawaya, Yudong Cao +3
Classical simulation of quantum computation is necessary for studying the numerical behavior of quantum algorithms, as there does not yet exist a large viable quantum computer on w…
Quantum Information and Computation for Chemistry
Jonathan Olson, Yudong Cao, Jonathan Romero +7
The NSF Workshop in Quantum Information and Computation for Chemistry assembled experts from directly quantum-oriented fields such as algorithms, chemistry, machine learning, optic…
Coherent dynamics of mixed Frenkel and Charge Transfer Excitons in Dinaphtho[2,3-b:2'3'-f]thieno[3,2-b]-thiophene Thin Films: The Importance of Hole Delocalization
Takatoshi Fujita, Sule Atahan-Evrenk, Nicolas P. D. Sawaya +1
Charge transfer states in organic semiconductors play crucial roles in processes such as singlet fission and exciton dissociation at donor/acceptor interfaces. Recently, a time-res…
Error Sensitivity to Environmental Noise in Quantum Circuits for Chemical State Preparation
Nicolas P. D. Sawaya, Mikhail Smelyanskiy, Jarrod R. McClean +1
Calculating molecular energies is likely to be one of the first useful applications to achieve quantum supremacy, performing faster on a quantum than a classical computer. However,…
qHiPSTER: The Quantum High Performance Software Testing Environment
Mikhail Smelyanskiy, Nicolas P. D. Sawaya, Alán Aspuru-Guzik
We present qHiPSTER, the Quantum High Performance Software Testing Environment. qHiPSTER is a distributed high-performance implementation of a quantum simulator on a classical comp…