With gates of a quantum computer designed to encode multi-dimensional vectors, projections of quantum computer states onto specific qubit states can produce kernels of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. We show that quantum kernels obtained with a fixed ansatz implementable on current quantum computers can be used for accurate regression models of global potential energy surfaces (PESs) for polyatomic molecules. To obtain accurate regression models, we apply Bayesian optimization to maximize marginal likelihood by varying the parameters of the quantum gates. This yields Gaussian process models with quantum kernels. We illustrate the effect of qubit entanglement in the quantum kernels and explore the generalization performance of quantum Gaussian processes by extrapolating global six-dimensional PESs in the energy domain.
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14 May 2022
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May 11 2022
Quantum Gaussian process model of potential energy surface for a polyatomic molecule
J. Dai
;
J. Dai
1
Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
2
Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute, Vancouver
, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada
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R. V. Krems
R. V. Krems
a)
1
Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
2
Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute, Vancouver
, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada
a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: rkrems@chem.ubc.ca
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a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: rkrems@chem.ubc.ca
J. Chem. Phys. 156, 184802 (2022)
Article history
Received:
February 20 2022
Accepted:
April 21 2022
Citation
J. Dai, R. V. Krems; Quantum Gaussian process model of potential energy surface for a polyatomic molecule. J. Chem. Phys. 14 May 2022; 156 (18): 184802. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0088821
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