Coarse grained intermolecular interactions on quantum processors

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.00968v2
• Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 15:25:45 GMT
• Title: Coarse grained intermolecular interactions on quantum processors
• Authors: Lewis W. Anderson, Martin Kiffner, Panagiotis Kl. Barkoutsos, Ivano Tavernelli, Jason Crain, Dieter Jaksch
• Abstract summary: We develop a coarse-grained representation of the electronic response that is ideally suited for determining the ground state of weakly interacting molecules. We demonstrate our method on IBM superconducting quantum processors. We conclude that current-generation quantum hardware is capable of probing energies in this weakly bound but nevertheless chemically ubiquitous and biologically important regime.
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• Abstract: Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) are increasingly being applied in simulations of strongly-bound (covalently bonded) systems using full molecular orbital basis representations. The application of quantum computers to the weakly-bound intermolecular and non-covalently bonded regime however has remained largely unexplored. In this work, we develop a coarse-grained representation of the electronic response that is ideally suited for determining the ground state of weakly interacting molecules using a VQA. We require qubit numbers that grow linearly with the number of molecules and derive scaling behaviour for the number of circuits and measurements required, which compare favourably to traditional variational quantum eigensolver methods. We demonstrate our method on IBM superconducting quantum processors and show its capability to resolve the dispersion energy as a function of separation for a pair of non-polar molecules - thereby establishing a means by which quantum computers can model Van der Waals interactions directly from zero-point quantum fluctuations. Within this coarse-grained approximation, we conclude that current-generation quantum hardware is capable of probing energies in this weakly bound but nevertheless chemically ubiquitous and biologically important regime. Finally, we perform experiments on simulated and real quantum computers for systems of three, four and five oscillators as well as oscillators with anharmonic onsite binding potentials; the consequences of the latter are unexamined in large systems using classical computational methods but can be incorporated here with low computational overhead.

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