Auger Spectroscopy via Generative Quantum Eigensolver: A Quantum Approach to Molecular Excitations
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| author | Keithley, Kimberlee Yamamoto, Shunsuke Kenmoku, Ryota Hamamura, Ikko Nakaji, Kouhei Kanno, Shu Kobayashi, Takao Gao, Qi Uno, Shumpei Oshio, Kohei Watanabe, Naoki Sato, Takeshi Yamamoto, Naoki Minami, Shunya Suzuki, Yohichi Nakamura, Yuma Campos-Gonzalez-Angulo, Jorge A. Vakili, Mohammad Ghazi Aspuru-Guzik, Alan |
| author_facet | Keithley, Kimberlee Yamamoto, Shunsuke Kenmoku, Ryota Hamamura, Ikko Nakaji, Kouhei Kanno, Shu Kobayashi, Takao Gao, Qi Uno, Shumpei Oshio, Kohei Watanabe, Naoki Sato, Takeshi Yamamoto, Naoki Minami, Shunya Suzuki, Yohichi Nakamura, Yuma Campos-Gonzalez-Angulo, Jorge A. Vakili, Mohammad Ghazi Aspuru-Guzik, Alan |
| contents | Auger electron spectroscopy, a way of characterizing electronic structure through core-level decay processes, is widely used in materials characterization; however direct calculation from molecular geometry requires accurate treatment of many excited states, posing a challenge for classical methods. We present a hybrid quantum-classical workflow for calculating Auger spectra that combines the generative quantum eigensolver (GQE) for ground-state preparation, the quantum self-consistent equation-of-motion method for excited-state calculations, and the one-centre approximation for Auger transition rates. GQE uses a GPT-2 model to generate quantum circuits for ground-state optimization, allowing our workflow to benefit from HPC parallelization and GPU-acceleration for favourable scaling with system size. We demonstrate the validity of our workflow by calculating the Auger spectrum of water with the STO-3G basis set and demonstrating qualitative and quantitative agreement with spectra obtained using completely classical full configuration interaction calculations, from the computational literature, and from the experimental literature. We also find that for water, substituting the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) for GQE results in near-identical spectra, but that the ground state estimator generated by GQE contains about half the total gate count as that generated by VQE. |
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| spellingShingle | Auger Spectroscopy via Generative Quantum Eigensolver: A Quantum Approach to Molecular Excitations Keithley, Kimberlee Yamamoto, Shunsuke Kenmoku, Ryota Hamamura, Ikko Nakaji, Kouhei Kanno, Shu Kobayashi, Takao Gao, Qi Uno, Shumpei Oshio, Kohei Watanabe, Naoki Sato, Takeshi Yamamoto, Naoki Minami, Shunya Suzuki, Yohichi Nakamura, Yuma Campos-Gonzalez-Angulo, Jorge A. Vakili, Mohammad Ghazi Aspuru-Guzik, Alan Quantum Physics Auger electron spectroscopy, a way of characterizing electronic structure through core-level decay processes, is widely used in materials characterization; however direct calculation from molecular geometry requires accurate treatment of many excited states, posing a challenge for classical methods. We present a hybrid quantum-classical workflow for calculating Auger spectra that combines the generative quantum eigensolver (GQE) for ground-state preparation, the quantum self-consistent equation-of-motion method for excited-state calculations, and the one-centre approximation for Auger transition rates. GQE uses a GPT-2 model to generate quantum circuits for ground-state optimization, allowing our workflow to benefit from HPC parallelization and GPU-acceleration for favourable scaling with system size. We demonstrate the validity of our workflow by calculating the Auger spectrum of water with the STO-3G basis set and demonstrating qualitative and quantitative agreement with spectra obtained using completely classical full configuration interaction calculations, from the computational literature, and from the experimental literature. We also find that for water, substituting the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) for GQE results in near-identical spectra, but that the ground state estimator generated by GQE contains about half the total gate count as that generated by VQE. |
| title | Auger Spectroscopy via Generative Quantum Eigensolver: A Quantum Approach to Molecular Excitations |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12859 |