Simulating Models of Challenging Correlated Molecules and Materials on the Sycamore Quantum Processor

Simulating complex molecules and materials is an anticipated application of quantum devices. With the emergence of hardware designed to target strong quantum advantage in artificial tasks, we examine how the same hardware behaves in modeling physical problems of correlated electronic structure. We s...

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Hlavní autoři: Ruslan N. Tazhigulov, Shi-Ning Sun, Reza Haghshenas, Huanchen Zhai, Adrian T.K. Tan, Nicholas C. Rubin, Ryan Babbush, Austin J. Minnich, Garnet Kin-Lic Chan
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Jazyk:English
Vydáno: American Physical Society 2022-11-01
Edice:PRX Quantum
On-line přístup:http://doi.org/10.1103/PRXQuantum.3.040318
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author Ruslan N. Tazhigulov
Shi-Ning Sun
Reza Haghshenas
Huanchen Zhai
Adrian T.K. Tan
Nicholas C. Rubin
Ryan Babbush
Austin J. Minnich
Garnet Kin-Lic Chan
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Reza Haghshenas
Huanchen Zhai
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description Simulating complex molecules and materials is an anticipated application of quantum devices. With the emergence of hardware designed to target strong quantum advantage in artificial tasks, we examine how the same hardware behaves in modeling physical problems of correlated electronic structure. We simulate static and dynamical electronic structure on a superconducting quantum processor derived from Google’s Sycamore architecture for two representative correlated electron problems: the nitrogenase iron-sulfur molecular clusters and α-ruthenium trichloride, a proximate spin-liquid material. To do so, we simplify the electronic structure into low-energy spin models that fit on the device. With extensive error mitigation and assistance from classical recompilation and simulated data, we achieve quantitatively meaningful results deploying about one fifth of the gate resources used in artificial quantum advantage experiments on a similar architecture. This increases to over half of the gate resources when choosing a model that suits the hardware. Our work serves to convert artificial measures of quantum advantage into a physically relevant setting.
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spelling doaj.art-cfa8a768f6ee40d4b51c1246c4475cec2022-12-22T04:13:56ZengAmerican Physical SocietyPRX Quantum2691-33992022-11-013404031810.1103/PRXQuantum.3.040318Simulating Models of Challenging Correlated Molecules and Materials on the Sycamore Quantum ProcessorRuslan N. TazhigulovShi-Ning SunReza HaghshenasHuanchen ZhaiAdrian T.K. TanNicholas C. RubinRyan BabbushAustin J. MinnichGarnet Kin-Lic ChanSimulating complex molecules and materials is an anticipated application of quantum devices. With the emergence of hardware designed to target strong quantum advantage in artificial tasks, we examine how the same hardware behaves in modeling physical problems of correlated electronic structure. We simulate static and dynamical electronic structure on a superconducting quantum processor derived from Google’s Sycamore architecture for two representative correlated electron problems: the nitrogenase iron-sulfur molecular clusters and α-ruthenium trichloride, a proximate spin-liquid material. To do so, we simplify the electronic structure into low-energy spin models that fit on the device. With extensive error mitigation and assistance from classical recompilation and simulated data, we achieve quantitatively meaningful results deploying about one fifth of the gate resources used in artificial quantum advantage experiments on a similar architecture. This increases to over half of the gate resources when choosing a model that suits the hardware. Our work serves to convert artificial measures of quantum advantage into a physically relevant setting.http://doi.org/10.1103/PRXQuantum.3.040318
spellingShingle Ruslan N. Tazhigulov
Shi-Ning Sun
Reza Haghshenas
Huanchen Zhai
Adrian T.K. Tan
Nicholas C. Rubin
Ryan Babbush
Austin J. Minnich
Garnet Kin-Lic Chan
Simulating Models of Challenging Correlated Molecules and Materials on the Sycamore Quantum Processor
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title_fullStr Simulating Models of Challenging Correlated Molecules and Materials on the Sycamore Quantum Processor
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title_short Simulating Models of Challenging Correlated Molecules and Materials on the Sycamore Quantum Processor
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url http://doi.org/10.1103/PRXQuantum.3.040318
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