The nuclear system is a promising area for demonstrating practical quantum advantage.A comprehensive computation of a nuclear system in a classical computer is beyond the capacity of current classical computers.With t...The nuclear system is a promising area for demonstrating practical quantum advantage.A comprehensive computation of a nuclear system in a classical computer is beyond the capacity of current classical computers.With the rapid development of hardware,the prospect of using quantum computers in nuclear physics is close at hand.In this paper,we report a full quantum package,QCSH,for solving a nuclear shell model in a quantum computer.QCSH uses the linear combination of the unitary formalism of quantum computing and performs all calculations in a quantum computer.The complexities of qubit resource and the number of basic gates of QCSH are both polynomials to the number of nucleons in nuclei.For example,QCSH is used to calculate the binding energies of 12 light nuclei(i.e.,^(2)H,^(3)H,^(3)He,^(4)He,^(6)Li,^(7)Li,^(12)C,^(14)N,^(16)O,^(17)O,^(23)Na,and^(40)Ca).Moreover,we experimentally demonstrate the calculation of deuteron binding energy using a superconducting quantum processor.The result indicates that QCSH can provide meaningful results already in near-term quantum devices.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.12005015)support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11974205,and 11774197)+1 种基金the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2017YFA0303700)the Key Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province(Grant No.2018B030325002)。
文摘The nuclear system is a promising area for demonstrating practical quantum advantage.A comprehensive computation of a nuclear system in a classical computer is beyond the capacity of current classical computers.With the rapid development of hardware,the prospect of using quantum computers in nuclear physics is close at hand.In this paper,we report a full quantum package,QCSH,for solving a nuclear shell model in a quantum computer.QCSH uses the linear combination of the unitary formalism of quantum computing and performs all calculations in a quantum computer.The complexities of qubit resource and the number of basic gates of QCSH are both polynomials to the number of nucleons in nuclei.For example,QCSH is used to calculate the binding energies of 12 light nuclei(i.e.,^(2)H,^(3)H,^(3)He,^(4)He,^(6)Li,^(7)Li,^(12)C,^(14)N,^(16)O,^(17)O,^(23)Na,and^(40)Ca).Moreover,we experimentally demonstrate the calculation of deuteron binding energy using a superconducting quantum processor.The result indicates that QCSH can provide meaningful results already in near-term quantum devices.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(12005015)support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11974205)+7 种基金the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2017YFA0303700)the Key Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province(2018B030325002)Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Chip(ICFC)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(12275117 and 11905099)Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation(2022B1515020074 and 2019A1515011383)Shenzhen Science and Technology Program(KQTD20200820113010023)Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory(2019B121203002)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11905111).
