Cloud Quantum Computing of an Atomic Nucleus

Dumitrescu, Eugene F.; McCaskey, Alex J.; Hagen, Gaute; Jansen, Gustav R.; Morris, Titus D.; Papenbrock, Thomas F.; Pooser, Raphael C.; Dean, David Jarvis; Lougovski, Pavel

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.210501

Cloud Quantum Computing of an Atomic Nucleus

Journal Article · Wed May 23 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.210501· OSTI ID:1439152

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Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Here, we report a quantum simulation of the deuteron binding energy on quantum processors accessed via cloud servers. We use a Hamiltonian from pionless effective field theory at leading order. We design a low-depth version of the unitary coupled-cluster ansatz, use the variational quantum eigensolver algorithm, and compute the binding energy to within a few percent. Our work is the first step towards scalable nuclear structure computations on a quantum processor via the cloud, and it sheds light on how to map scientific computing applications onto nascent quantum devices.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) (SC-21)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; FG02-96ER40963; SC0018223

OSTI ID:: 1439152

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1438505
OSTI ID: 1593554

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 21 Vol. 120; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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