State-Specific Orbital Optimization for Enhanced Excited-States Calculation on Quantum Computers

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Autores principales: Zhu, Guorui, Bierman, Joel, Lu, Jianfeng, Li, Yingzhou
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Publicado: 2025
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author Zhu, Guorui
Bierman, Joel
Lu, Jianfeng
Li, Yingzhou
author_facet Zhu, Guorui
Bierman, Joel
Lu, Jianfeng
Li, Yingzhou
contents We propose a state-specific orbital optimization scheme for improving the accuracy of excited states of the electronic structure Hamiltonian for the use on near-term quantum computers, which can be combined with any overlap-based excited-state quantum eigensolver. We derived the gradient of the overlap term between different states generated by different orbitals with respect to the orbital rotation matrix and use the gradient-based optimization methods to optimize the orbitals. This scheme allows for more flexibility in the choice of orbitals. We implement the state-specific orbital optimization scheme with the variational quantum deflation (VQD) algorithm, and show that it achieves higher accuracy than the state-averaged orbital optimization scheme on various molecules including H4 and LiH.
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spellingShingle State-Specific Orbital Optimization for Enhanced Excited-States Calculation on Quantum Computers
Zhu, Guorui
Bierman, Joel
Lu, Jianfeng
Li, Yingzhou
Quantum Physics
We propose a state-specific orbital optimization scheme for improving the accuracy of excited states of the electronic structure Hamiltonian for the use on near-term quantum computers, which can be combined with any overlap-based excited-state quantum eigensolver. We derived the gradient of the overlap term between different states generated by different orbitals with respect to the orbital rotation matrix and use the gradient-based optimization methods to optimize the orbitals. This scheme allows for more flexibility in the choice of orbitals. We implement the state-specific orbital optimization scheme with the variational quantum deflation (VQD) algorithm, and show that it achieves higher accuracy than the state-averaged orbital optimization scheme on various molecules including H4 and LiH.
title State-Specific Orbital Optimization for Enhanced Excited-States Calculation on Quantum Computers
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.13544