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author Zhao, Luning
Goings, Joshua J.
Aboumrad, Willie
Arrasmith, Andrew
Calderin, Lazaro
Churchill, Spencer
Gabay, Dor
Harvey-Brown, Thea
Hiles, Melanie
Kaja, Magda
Keesan, Matthew
Kulesz, Karolina
Maksymov, Andrii
Maruo, Mei
Muñoz, Mauricio
Nijholt, Bas
Schiller, Rebekah
de Sereville, Yvette
Smidutz, Amy
Tripier, Felix
Yao, Grace
Zaveri, Trishal
Collins, Coleman
Roetteler, Martin
Epifanovsky, Evgeny
Kovyrshin, Arseny
Tornberg, Lars
Broo, Anders
Hammond, Jeff R.
Chandani, Zohim
Khalate, Pradnya
Kyoseva, Elica
Chen, Yi-Ting
Kessler, Eric M.
Lin, Cedric Yen-Yu
Ramu, Gandhi
Shaffer, Ryan
Brett, Michael
Huang, Benchen
Hugues, Maxime R.
Takeshita, Tyler Y.
author_facet Zhao, Luning
Goings, Joshua J.
Aboumrad, Willie
Arrasmith, Andrew
Calderin, Lazaro
Churchill, Spencer
Gabay, Dor
Harvey-Brown, Thea
Hiles, Melanie
Kaja, Magda
Keesan, Matthew
Kulesz, Karolina
Maksymov, Andrii
Maruo, Mei
Muñoz, Mauricio
Nijholt, Bas
Schiller, Rebekah
de Sereville, Yvette
Smidutz, Amy
Tripier, Felix
Yao, Grace
Zaveri, Trishal
Collins, Coleman
Roetteler, Martin
Epifanovsky, Evgeny
Kovyrshin, Arseny
Tornberg, Lars
Broo, Anders
Hammond, Jeff R.
Chandani, Zohim
Khalate, Pradnya
Kyoseva, Elica
Chen, Yi-Ting
Kessler, Eric M.
Lin, Cedric Yen-Yu
Ramu, Gandhi
Shaffer, Ryan
Brett, Michael
Huang, Benchen
Hugues, Maxime R.
Takeshita, Tyler Y.
contents We demonstrate an end-to-end workflow to model chemical reaction barriers with the quantum-classical auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo (QC-AFQMC) algorithm with quantum tomography using matchgate shadows. The workflow operates within an accelerated quantum supercomputing environment with the IonQ Forte quantum computer and NVIDIA GPUs on Amazon Web Services. We present several algorithmic innovations and an efficient GPU-accelerated execution, which achieves a several orders of magnitude speedup over the state-of-the-art implementation of QC-AFQMC. We apply the algorithm to simulate the oxidative addition step of the nickel-catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura reaction using 24 qubits of IonQ Forte with 16 qubits used to represent the trial state, plus 8 additional ancilla qubits for error mitigation, resulting in the largest QC-AFQMC with matchgate shadow experiments ever performed on quantum hardware. We achieve a $9\times$ speedup in collecting matchgate circuit measurements, and our distributed-parallel post-processing implementation attains a $656\times$ time-to-solution improvement over the prior state-of-the-art. Chemical reaction barriers for the model reaction evaluated with active-space QC-AFQMC are within the uncertainty interval of $\pm4$ kcal/mol from the reference CCSD(T) result when matchgates are sampled on the ideal simulator and within 10 kcal/mol from reference when measured on QPU. This work marks a step towards practical quantum chemistry simulations on quantum devices while identifying several opportunities for further development.
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spellingShingle Quantum-Classical Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo with Matchgate Shadows on Trapped Ion Quantum Computers
Zhao, Luning
Goings, Joshua J.
Aboumrad, Willie
Arrasmith, Andrew
Calderin, Lazaro
Churchill, Spencer
Gabay, Dor
Harvey-Brown, Thea
Hiles, Melanie
Kaja, Magda
Keesan, Matthew
Kulesz, Karolina
Maksymov, Andrii
Maruo, Mei
Muñoz, Mauricio
Nijholt, Bas
Schiller, Rebekah
de Sereville, Yvette
Smidutz, Amy
Tripier, Felix
Yao, Grace
Zaveri, Trishal
Collins, Coleman
Roetteler, Martin
Epifanovsky, Evgeny
Kovyrshin, Arseny
Tornberg, Lars
Broo, Anders
Hammond, Jeff R.
Chandani, Zohim
Khalate, Pradnya
Kyoseva, Elica
Chen, Yi-Ting
Kessler, Eric M.
Lin, Cedric Yen-Yu
Ramu, Gandhi
Shaffer, Ryan
Brett, Michael
Huang, Benchen
Hugues, Maxime R.
Takeshita, Tyler Y.
Quantum Physics
Chemical Physics
We demonstrate an end-to-end workflow to model chemical reaction barriers with the quantum-classical auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo (QC-AFQMC) algorithm with quantum tomography using matchgate shadows. The workflow operates within an accelerated quantum supercomputing environment with the IonQ Forte quantum computer and NVIDIA GPUs on Amazon Web Services. We present several algorithmic innovations and an efficient GPU-accelerated execution, which achieves a several orders of magnitude speedup over the state-of-the-art implementation of QC-AFQMC. We apply the algorithm to simulate the oxidative addition step of the nickel-catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura reaction using 24 qubits of IonQ Forte with 16 qubits used to represent the trial state, plus 8 additional ancilla qubits for error mitigation, resulting in the largest QC-AFQMC with matchgate shadow experiments ever performed on quantum hardware. We achieve a $9\times$ speedup in collecting matchgate circuit measurements, and our distributed-parallel post-processing implementation attains a $656\times$ time-to-solution improvement over the prior state-of-the-art. Chemical reaction barriers for the model reaction evaluated with active-space QC-AFQMC are within the uncertainty interval of $\pm4$ kcal/mol from the reference CCSD(T) result when matchgates are sampled on the ideal simulator and within 10 kcal/mol from reference when measured on QPU. This work marks a step towards practical quantum chemistry simulations on quantum devices while identifying several opportunities for further development.
title Quantum-Classical Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo with Matchgate Shadows on Trapped Ion Quantum Computers
topic Quantum Physics
Chemical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22408