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Is a D-Wave quantum computer able to do TD-DFT calculations?

I was reading this paper (Computing molecular excited states on a D‑Wave quantum annealer) and wondering if I can make a QUBO model for the equations used in the TD-DFT energy calculation for the ...
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How realistic is the use of classical analog electronic computers in solving the Schrödinger, Hartree-Fock, and Kohn-Sham equations?

Classical binary computer The classical binary computers, on which a Hartree-Fock (or density functional theory) calculation can be executed, already allows seeing a limit in their progress, mainly in ...
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What is the ibrav value of a rhombohedral structure? [closed]

I have a rhombohedral structure The SYSTEM and CELL_PARAMETERS blocks looks like this: &SYSTEM ibrav = 0 A = 6.058435171 ...
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Is there any useful application to estimating the expectation value for an Ising model without magnetic field?

In the same line of thoughts as this post, I am trying to understand better in which cases quantum computers could be useful to simulate materials under some constraints on what the quantum computer ...
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Are there interesting applications of estimating the energy for generalizations of the Heisenberg model?

I consider that $H$ is a Hamiltonian describing a quantum system of $n$ spin-1/2 particles (or qubits). I assume it can be written as (the $\alpha_k^i$ are real coefficients): $$\tag{1}H=\sum_{i=1}^3 ...
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How to solve time-dependent Schrodinger equation and plot trajectory on Bloch sphere?

Let's say I have a $2 \times 2$ Hamiltonian that I am solving using the time-dependent Schrodinger equation: $$ i \frac{d}{dt} |{\Phi}\rangle=H|{\Phi}\rangle.\tag{1} $$ Consider a generic Hamiltonian $...
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Molecular orbitals and active space

During the same minute as asking this question, I also asked this at Quantum Computing SE. In Qiskit, each qubit corresponds to one spin orbital. For example, the $\ce{N2}$ molecule would have 10 ...
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How does the recent Chinese quantum supremacy claim compare with Google's?

Very recently, China claims achieving 'Quantum Supremacy' with the world's fastest Quantum Computer. Their computer was designed as a circuit of lasers, beam splitters and mirrors (see figure bellow) ...
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The correlation energy from frozen natural orbtials (FNOs) using CCSD and MPBT(2)?

In other works and from the paper: Scaling Up Electronic Structure Calculations on Quantum Computers: The Frozen Natural Orbital Based Method of Increments. I have seen that the corrected CCSD ...
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What class of materials are closest to realizing the tunable coupling Hamiltonian?

From a physics point of view, there is an effective (approximation to second-order coupling Jaynes-Cummings) Hamiltonian of the form [1] \begin{equation} H=\sum_j\omega_j(t)\sigma_j^z+\sum_{\langle i,...
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How are quantum computers being used in drug design? [closed]

A biomaterials question this time. How are quantum computers being used in drug discovery and design?
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How can quantum computing accelerate materials modeling?

Materials modeling is very computationally intensive and first-principles simulation of a real system of reasonable size typically involves the use of classical supercomputers. How can quantum ...
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