Scalable Quantum Simulation of Molecular Energies

  1. P. J. J. O'Malley,
  2. R. Babbush,
  3. I. D. Kivlichan,
  4. J. Romero,
  5. J. R. McClean,
  6. R. Barends,
  7. J. Kelly,
  8. P. Roushan,
  9. A. Tranter,
  10. N. Ding,
  11. B. Campbell,
  12. Y. Chen,
  13. Z. Chen,
  14. B. Chiaro,
  15. A. Dunsworth,
  16. A. G. Fowler,
  17. E. Jeffrey,
  18. A. Megrant,
  19. J. Y. Mutus,
  20. C. Neill,
  21. C. Quintana,
  22. D. Sank,
  23. A. Vainsencher,
  24. J. Wenner,
  25. T. C. White,
  26. P. V. Coveney,
  27. P. J. Love,
  28. H. Neven,
  29. A. Aspuru-Guzik,
  30. and J.M. Martinis
We report the first electronic structure calculation performed on a quantum computer without exponentially costly precompilation. We use a programmable array of superconducting qubits