Nuclear quantum phenomena beyond the Born–Oppenheimer approximation are known to play an important role in a growing number of chemical and biological processes. While there exists no unique consensus on a rigorous and efficient implementation of coupled electron–nuclear quantum dynamics, it is recognized that these problems scale exponentially with system size on classical processors and, therefore, may benefit from quantum computing implementations. Here, we introduce a methodology for the efficient quantum treatment of the electron–nuclear problem on near-term quantum computers, based upon the Nuclear–Electronic Orbital (NEO) approach. We generalize the electronic two-qubit tapering scheme to include nuclei by exploiting symmetries inherent in the NEO framework, thereby reducing the Hamiltonian dimension, number of qubits, gates, and measurements needed for calculations. We also develop parameter transfer and initialization techniques, which improve convergence behavior relative to conventional initialization. These techniques are applied to H2 and malonaldehyde for which results agree with NEO full configuration interaction and NEO complete active space configuration interaction benchmarks for ground state energy to within 10−6 hartree and entanglement entropy to within 10−4. These implementations therefore significantly reduce resource requirements for full quantum simulations of molecules on near-term quantum devices while maintaining high accuracy.
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7 June 2023
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June 05 2023
A quantum computing implementation of nuclearelectronic orbital (NEO) theory: Toward an exact pre-Born–Oppenheimer formulation of molecular quantum systems
Arseny Kovyrshin
;
Arseny Kovyrshin
a)
(Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing)
1
Data Science and Modelling, Pharmaceutical Sciences, R&D, AstraZeneca Gothenburg
, Pepparedsleden 1, Molndal SE-431 83, Sweden
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Mårten Skogh
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Mårten Skogh
(Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing)
1
Data Science and Modelling, Pharmaceutical Sciences, R&D, AstraZeneca Gothenburg
, Pepparedsleden 1, Molndal SE-431 83, Sweden
2
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology
, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Anders Broo
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Anders Broo
(Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing)
1
Data Science and Modelling, Pharmaceutical Sciences, R&D, AstraZeneca Gothenburg
, Pepparedsleden 1, Molndal SE-431 83, Sweden
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Stefano Mensa
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Stefano Mensa
(Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing)
3
The Hartree Centre, STFC, Sci-Tech Daresbury
, Warrington WA4 4AD, United Kingdom
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Emre Sahin
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Emre Sahin
(Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing)
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The Hartree Centre, STFC, Sci-Tech Daresbury
, Warrington WA4 4AD, United Kingdom
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Jason Crain
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Jason Crain
(Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing)
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IBM Research Europe, Hartree Centre STFC Laboratory, Sci-Tech Daresbury
, Warrington WA4 4AD, United Kingdom
5
Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford
, Oxford OX1 3QU, United Kingdom
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Ivano Tavernelli
Ivano Tavernelli
b)
(Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing)
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IBM Quantum, IBM Research Europe – Zurich
, Säumerstrasse 4, 8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland
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J. Chem. Phys. 158, 214119 (2023)
Article history
Received:
March 13 2023
Accepted:
May 16 2023
Citation
Arseny Kovyrshin, Mårten Skogh, Anders Broo, Stefano Mensa, Emre Sahin, Jason Crain, Ivano Tavernelli; A quantum computing implementation of nuclearelectronic orbital (NEO) theory: Toward an exact pre-Born–Oppenheimer formulation of molecular quantum systems. J. Chem. Phys. 7 June 2023; 158 (21): 214119. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0150291
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