Towards Compact Wavefunctions from Quantum-Selected Configuration Interaction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02525v2
• Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:21:10 GMT
• Title: Towards Compact Wavefunctions from Quantum-Selected Configuration Interaction
• Authors: Tim Weaving, Angus Mingare, Alexis Ralli, Peter V. Coveney,
• Abstract summary: We present an algorithm that leverages Hamiltonian time evolution in Quantum-Selected Configuration Interaction (QSCI)<n>We assess the resulting wavefunctions for compactness, a point on which QSCI has previously been criticised.<n>This result is achieved with a configuration sampling scheme that uses the experimental orbital occupancies of a time-evolved quantum state to predict likely single and double excitations.
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• Abstract: A recent direction in quantum computing for molecular electronic structure sees the use of quantum devices as configuration sampling machines integrated within high-performance computing (HPC) platforms. This appeals to the strengths of both the quantum and classical hardware; where state-sampling is classically hard, the quantum computer can provide computational advantage in the selection of high quality configuration subspaces, while the final molecular energies are evaluated by solving an interaction matrix on HPC and is therefore not corrupted by hardware noise. In this work, we present an algorithm that leverages stochastic Hamiltonian time evolution in Quantum-Selected Configuration Interaction (QSCI), with multireference perturbation theory capturing missed correlations outside the configuration subspace. The approach is validated through a hardware demonstration utilising 42 qubits of an IQM superconducting device to calculate the potential energy curve of the inorganic silane molecule, SiH4 using a 6-31G atomic orbital basis set, under a stretching of the Si-H bond length. We assess the resulting wavefunctions for compactness, a point on which QSCI has previously been criticised. At large separations, where static correlation dominates, we find a configuration space more than 200 times smaller than that obtained from a conventional SCI selection criterion yields comparable energies. We also compare against the best-in-class Heatbath Configuration Interaction algorithm and observe similar wavefunction compactness at convergence. This result is achieved with a configuration sampling scheme that uses the experimental orbital occupancies of a time-evolved quantum state to predict likely single and double excitations away from existing configurations to bias the subspace expansion procedure.

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