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Quantum-Selected Configuration Interaction: A Critical Anatomical Review, Comparative Analysis, and Onto-Epistemological Reflection on Hybrid Quantum-Classical Methods for the Electronic Schrödinger Equation

Syed Muntasir Mamun

Published Jul 11, 2026• 0 citations
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This review provides a detailed anatomical dissection of Quantum-Selected Configuration Interaction (QSCI), a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm introduced by Kanno et al. (2026) that leverages noisy quantum devices solely for sampling important electron configurations from an input state, followed by exact classical diagonalization of the Hamiltonian in the resulting reduced subspace. We systematically evaluate its methodological innovations, noise resilience, and strict adherence to the variational principle. A comprehensive comparison is drawn with at least twelve competing or complementary paradigms in NISQ-era quantum chemistry and classical selected configuration interaction (SCI), including VQE and its adaptive/excited-state variants, Quantum Subspace Expansion (QSE), ASCI, CIPSI, MCCI, FCIQMC, DMRG, Classically-Boosted VQE, and time-evolved input extensions (TE-QSCI). Pros and cons are articulated with reference to recent critical analyses highlighting sampling inefficiencies and subspace compactness. The review further explores the ontological status of configuration selection via quantum measurement and the epistemological guarantees afforded by classical post-processing. Possible extensions—hybrid adaptive pipelines, subspace recycling for molecular dynamics, and integration with machine-learned wavefunctions—are proposed. Also available on Academia.edu: https://www.academia.edu/attachments/133411942/download_file?s=portfolio

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10.5281/zenodo.22990958

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