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Q2Chemistry: A quantum computation platform for quantum chemistry

  • Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China

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    Yi Fan received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2017 and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at USTC. His research interests include quantum chemistry methods and quantum computing algorithms for solid materials

    Zhenyu Li is a Professor of chemistry at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He received his Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry from USTC in 2004. Since then, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the University of California, Irvine. In 2007, he joined USTC as a faculty member. His research interests focus on using or developing electronic structure and molecular simulation methods to study chemical systems

  • Corresponding author: E-mail: zyli@ustc.edu.cn
  • Received Date: 29 August 2022
  • Accepted Date: 03 November 2022
    • Available Online: 18 January 2023
    Abstract

  • Abstract

    Quantum computers provide new opportunities for quantum chemistry. In this article,we present a versatile, extensible, and efficient software package, named Q2Chemistry, for developing quantum algorithms and quantum inspired classical algorithms in the field of quantum chemistry. In Q2Chemistry, the wave function and Hamiltonian can be conveniently mapped into the qubit space, then quantum circuits can be generated corresponding to a specific quantum algorithm already implemented in the package or newly developed by the users. The generated circuits can be dispatched to either a physical quantum computer, if available, or to the internal virtual quantum computer realized by simulating quantum circuits on classical computers. As demonstrated by our benchmark simulations, Q2Chemistry achieves excellent performance in simulating medium scale quantum circuits using the matrix product state algorithm. Applications of Q2Chemistry to simulate molecules and periodic systems are given with performance analysis.

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    The main framework of our newly developed quantum computation software package.

    Abstract

    Quantum computers provide new opportunities for quantum chemistry. In this article,we present a versatile, extensible, and efficient software package, named Q2Chemistry, for developing quantum algorithms and quantum inspired classical algorithms in the field of quantum chemistry. In Q2Chemistry, the wave function and Hamiltonian can be conveniently mapped into the qubit space, then quantum circuits can be generated corresponding to a specific quantum algorithm already implemented in the package or newly developed by the users. The generated circuits can be dispatched to either a physical quantum computer, if available, or to the internal virtual quantum computer realized by simulating quantum circuits on classical computers. As demonstrated by our benchmark simulations, Q2Chemistry achieves excellent performance in simulating medium scale quantum circuits using the matrix product state algorithm. Applications of Q2Chemistry to simulate molecules and periodic systems are given with performance analysis.

    • Public Summary

    • We developed a quantum computation platform for quantum chemistry applications.
    • A modular structure was implemented with a mixed-language programming model for easy extension and high performance.
    • Excellent performance is achieved as demonstrated by simulating medium-scale quantum circuits up to 72 qubits.

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