Adiabatic state preparation study of methylene

Understand

Quantum computers attract much attention as they promise to outperform their classical counterparts in solving certain type of problems.

• One of them with practical applications in quantum chemistry is simulation of complex quantum systems.
• An essential ingredient of efficient quantum simulation algorithms are initial guesses of the exact wave functions with high enough fidelity.
• As was proposed in [Aspuru-Guzik et al., Science 309, 1704 (2005)], the exact ground states can in principle be prepared by the adiabatic state preparation method.