Point-group symmetry analysis of many-electron wavefunctions on a quantum computer

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24824v1
• Date: Sun, 24 May 2026 02:28:54 GMT
• Title: Point-group symmetry analysis of many-electron wavefunctions on a quantum computer
• Abstract summary: A point group is a set of spatial symmetry operations in molecular systems.<n>We propose an ancilla-free hybrid method to analyze point-group symmetries of many-electron states.<n>Our results suggest that the proposed method serves as a practical tool for analyzing symmetry properties of many-electron wavefunctions.
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• Abstract: A point group is a set of spatial symmetry operations in molecular systems and is an indispensable tool for analyzing molecular orbitals and spectroscopy experiments in chemistry. Several quantum algorithms to exploit this symmetry have been proposed, but practical implementations of point-group symmetry operations and the detailed symmetry analysis of realistic many-electron wavefunctions are still missing. In this work, we propose an ancilla-free hybrid method to analyze point-group symmetries of many-electron states, which works for both abelian and non-abelian groups. For a given wavefunction, our method calculates the projection weights of point-group irreducible representations by applying orbital rotations derived from the eigenvectors of the representation matrices, therefore it is applicable to arbitrary basis functions. The usefulness of our approach is demonstrated through numerical simulations of benzene and ferrocene molecules. Furthermore, we perform a hardware demonstration of the weight calculation of the ground state and the first excited state of benzene in $D_{2h}$ symmetry, using up to 32 qubits of IBM's \texttt{ibm\_kawasaki} device. By combining a tensor-network based encoding scheme and error mitigation techniques, we find the weights of irreducible representations for both states are faithfully reproduced within a few percent error. Our results suggest that the proposed method serves as a practical tool for analyzing symmetry properties of many-electron wavefunctions in realistic material simulations on near-term and early fault-tolerant quantum computers.

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