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arXiv:2008.06138 · Quantum Science and Technology

Correlating AGP on a quantum computer

Armin Khamoshi, Francesco A. Evangelista, Gustavo E. Scuseria

Published Oct 15, 2020• 54 citations
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Abstract

Abstract For variational algorithms on the near term quantum computing hardware, it is highly desirable to use very accurate ansatze with low implementation cost. Recent studies have shown that the antisymmetrized geminal power (AGP) wavefunction can be an excellent starting point for ansatze describing systems with strong pairing correlations, as those occurring in superconductors. In this work, we show how AGP can be efficiently implemented on a quantum computer with circuit depth, number of CNOTs, and number of measurements being linear in system size. Using AGP as the initial reference, we propose and implement a unitary correlator on AGP and benchmark it on the ground state of the pairing Hamiltonian. The results show highly accurate ground state energies in all correlation regimes of this model Hamiltonian.

DOI
10.1088/2058-9565/abc1bb

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In this paper, we develop a class of antisymmetrized geminal power configuration interaction (AGP-CI) wave functions that extend the AGP framework by incorporating inter-geminal correlations through a CI expansion. To make these wavefunctions computationally tractable, we evaluate them by rewriting the AGP-CI ansatz as a linear combination of AGPs (LC-AGP), for which overlaps and Hamiltonian matrix elements can be computed with standard AGP machinery. Motivated by border-rank decompositions, we further reorganize this ansatz into a compact linear combination of AGPs depending on a small deformation parameter τττ, which controls how closely the truncated expansion approximates the full AGP-CI state. Benchmark applications to the Hubbard model and to the small molecules H2_22​O and N2_22​ demonstrate that the proposed wavefunctions achieve consistently high accuracy and outperform the LC-AGP, particularly for systems with more electrons and in strongly correlated regimes.