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Refining the weighted subspace-search variational quantum eigensolver: compression of ansätze into a single pure state and optimization of weights
Cheng-Lin Hong, Luis Colmenarez, Lexin Ding, Carlos L. Benavides-Riveros, Christian Schilling
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The weighted subspace-search variational quantum eigensolver (SSVQE) is a prominent algorithm for calculating excited-state properties of molecular quantum systems. In this work, we elaborate on some of its fundamental features with the aim of improving its practical realization. First, we demonstrate that the initial ans\"atze for various excited states could be prepared into a single pure state through a minimal number of ancilla qubits, followed by the optimization of a subsequent global unitary rotation in the targeted subspace. Since the ancillas' sole purpose is to purify an underlying ensemble ρ_w state with spectral weights w, their measurement would just collapse ρ_w with probabilities wⱼ to one of its eigenstates |Ψⱼ ⟩. We thus observe that our realization of SSVQE is equivalent to the original SSVQE improved by importance sampling. Then, we elaborate by numerical means on the potential influence of the auxiliary weights w on the accuracy of the sought-after eigenstates and eigenenergies. Clear trends are discovered which are contrasted with some recent mathematical results concerning the ensemble variational principle that underlies SSVQE.
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