[HTML][HTML] The variational quantum eigensolver: a review of methods and best practices

J Tilly, H Chen, S Cao, D Picozzi, K Setia, Y Li, E Grant… - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
The variational quantum eigensolver (or VQE), first developed by Peruzzo et al.(2014), has
received significant attention from the research community in recent years. It uses the …

Molecular quantum dynamics: A quantum computing perspective

PJ Ollitrault, A Miessen, I Tavernelli - Accounts of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Simulating molecular dynamics (MD) within a comprehensive quantum
framework has been a long-standing challenge in computational chemistry. An exponential …

Exact electronic states with shallow quantum circuits from global optimisation

HGA Burton, D Marti-Dafcik, DP Tew… - npj Quantum …, 2023 - nature.com
Quantum computers promise to revolutionise molecular electronic simulations by
overcoming the exponential memory scaling. While electronic wave functions can be …

Quantum simulation of molecular response properties in the NISQ Era

A Kumar, A Asthana, V Abraham… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Accurate modeling of the response of molecular systems to an external electromagnetic field
is challenging on classical computers, especially in the regime of strong electronic …

Quantum self-consistent equation-of-motion method for computing molecular excitation energies, ionization potentials, and electron affinities on a quantum computer

A Asthana, A Kumar, V Abraham, H Grimsley… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Near-term quantum computers are expected to facilitate material and chemical research
through accurate molecular simulations. Several developments have already shown that …

Orthogonal state reduction variational eigensolver for the excited-state calculations on quantum computers

QX Xie, S Liu, Y Zhao - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is a promising method for ground-state calculations
on current noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers. However, the research progress of …

Accurate and gate-efficient quantum Ansätze for electronic states without adaptive optimization

HGA Burton - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
The ability of quantum computers to overcome the exponential memory scaling of many-
body problems is expected to transform quantum chemistry. Quantum algorithms require …

Algorithmic shadow spectroscopy

HHS Chan, R Meister, ML Goh, B Koczor - arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.11036, 2022 - arxiv.org
We present shadow spectroscopy as a simulator-agnostic quantum algorithm for estimating
energy gaps using very few circuit repetitions (shots) and no extra resources (ancilla qubits) …

Molecular-excited-state calculations with the qubit-excitation-based adaptive variational quantum eigensolver protocol

YS Yordanov, CHW Barnes, DRM Arvidsson-Shukur - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
Calculations of molecular spectral properties, like photodissociation rates and absorption
bands, rely on knowledge of the excited state energies of the molecule of interest. Protocols …

Challenging excited states from adaptive quantum eigensolvers: subspace expansions vs. state-averaged strategies

HR Grimsley, FA Evangelista - Quantum Science and …, 2025 - iopscience.iop.org
The prediction of electronic structure for strongly correlated molecules represents a
promising application for near-term quantum computers. Significant attention has been paid …