Precision ground-state energy calculation for the water molecule on a superconducting quantum processor

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02533v1
• Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2023 01:05:58 GMT
• Title: Precision ground-state energy calculation for the water molecule on a superconducting quantum processor
• Authors: Michael A. Jones, Harish J. Vallury, Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg
• Abstract summary: The accurate computation of properties of large molecular systems is classically infeasible and is one of the applications in which it is hoped that quantum computers will demonstrate an advantage over classical devices. Here, we apply the Quantum Computed Moments (QCM) approach combined with a variety of noise-mitigation techniques to an 8 qubit/spin-orbital representation of the water molecule (H$O). A noise-stable improvement on the variational result for a 4-excitation trial-state (circuit depth 25, 22 CNOTs) was obtained, with the ground-state energy computed to be within $1.4pm1.2$ m
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• Abstract: The accurate computation of properties of large molecular systems is classically infeasible and is one of the applications in which it is hoped that quantum computers will demonstrate an advantage over classical devices. However, due to the limitations of present-day quantum hardware, variational-hybrid algorithms introduced to tackle these problems struggle to meet the accuracy and precision requirements of chemical applications. Here, we apply the Quantum Computed Moments (QCM) approach combined with a variety of noise-mitigation techniques to an 8 qubit/spin-orbital representation of the water molecule (H$_2$O). A noise-stable improvement on the variational result for a 4-excitation trial-state (circuit depth 25, 22 CNOTs) was obtained, with the ground-state energy computed to be within $1.4\pm1.2$ mHa of exact diagonalisation in the 14 spin-orbital basis. Thus, the QCM approach, despite an increased number of measurements and noisy quantum hardware (CNOT error rates c.1% corresponding to expected error rates on the trial-state circuit of order 20%), is able to determine the ground-state energy of a non-trivial molecular system at the required accuracy (c.0.1%). To the best of our knowledge, these results are the largest calculations performed on a physical quantum computer to date in terms of encoding individual spin-orbitals producing chemically relevant accuracy, and a promising indicator of how such hybrid approaches might scale to problems of interest in the low-error/fault-tolerant regimes as quantum computers develop.

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