Geometric quantum adiabatic path for molecular eigensystems

ORAL

Abstract

We propose a quantum algorithm based on adiabatic evolution  to obtain molecular eigen-states and eigen-energies, which exploits slow stretching of bonding lengths and possibly angles. We refer to this scheme as geometric quantum adiabatic evolution (GeoQAE). In a previous work, we used a Hamiltonian path connecting to the final molecular Hamiltonian from the associated maximally commuting one, but this Mc-QAE approach encounters small energy gaps and level crossing at large molecular distances. Our new GeoQAE approach solves this problem and we  simulate the quantum evolution and the final energy in several examples, including H2O, CH2, and a chemical reaction study on H2+D2 →2HD.

*This work was supported in part by National Science Foundation, Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), which is a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility, at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA).

Presenters

  • Hongye Yu

    • Stony Brook University (SUNY)

Authors

  • Hongye Yu

    • Stony Brook University (SUNY)
  • Deyu Lu

    • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Qin Wu

    • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Tzu-Chieh Wei

    • Stony Brook University (SUNY)