Shattering the Symmetry Trap in Fixed-Ansatz VQE: An Accelerated ADAPT-VQE Study of Three Pillar Molecules under Bravyi-Kitaev Mapping

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05968v1
• Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:13:23 GMT
• Title: Shattering the Symmetry Trap in Fixed-Ansatz VQE: An Accelerated ADAPT-VQE Study of Three Pillar Molecules under Bravyi-Kitaev Mapping
• Abstract summary: We show how ADAPT-VQE framework shatters structural limitations across three distinct electronic and geometric molecular pillars.<n>Our numerical results show that the accelerated ADAPT-VQE framework achieves instant, exact Full Configuration Interaction.<n>This study establishes a robust, hardware-efficient path for simulating strongly correlated, highly polarized triatomic chemical environments.
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• Abstract: Fixed-ansatz Variational Quantum Eigensolvers (VQE), such as the Unitary Coupled Cluster with Singles and Doubles (UCCSD) framework, frequently suffer from severe initialization paralyzation and zero-gradient traps when evaluated using the non-local Bravyi-Kitaev (BK) fermion-to-qubit mapping. In this work, we systematically demonstrate how the Adaptive Derivative-Assembled Pseudo-Trotter (ADAPT-VQE) framework shatters these structural limitations across three distinct electronic and geometric molecular pillars: Lithium Hydride ($\text{LiH}$), Hydrogen Fluoride ($\text{HF}$), and Water ($\text{H}_2\text{O}$), under heavily stretched or asymmetric multi-reference configurations. While conventional UCCSD-VQE flatlines completely at a zero energy shift ($0.000000$~Ha) due to global phase cancellations inherent to the BK tree structures, our dynamic ADAPT-VQE loop successfully isolates the dominant symmetry-breaking operators using analytical commutator gradients. To bypass the severe $\mathcal{O}(N^3)$ computational bottlenecks of dense matrix exponentiation and Singular Value Decomposition on larger registers, we implement a highly optimized, vector-based Taylor series expansion state-evolution engine. Our numerical results show that the accelerated ADAPT-VQE framework achieves instant, exact Full Configuration Interaction (FCI) convergence within the very first macro-cycle across all three molecular systems, maintaining absolute numerical stability up to a 12-qubit register space. This study establishes a robust, hardware-efficient path for simulating strongly correlated, highly polarized triatomic chemical environments on near-term local architectures.

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