Explicitly correlated ground states with a feedback-free variational hybrid algorithm
Abstract
Explicitly correlated methods, which represent dominant short-range correlations by a diagonal Jastrow-type correlator, are designed to accurately describe systems of strongly correlated electrons, such as the fully periodic 2D Fermi--Hubbard model. However, as the reference state is compact in momentum space whereas the correlator acts naturally in real space, there is a fundamental mismatch of bases that classical algorithms resolve only by restricting the reference or the correlator. Here we propose a hybrid algorithm in which a quantum processor prepares a low-entanglement momentum-space matrix product state (MPS), precomputed classically by the transcorrelated method at the cost of a nonvariational energy, rotates it to real space, and measures in bases fixed by the Hamiltonian. Because the measurement bases are independent of the correlator, the correlator can be variationally optimized entirely in classical post-processing with no quantum-classical feedback loop. We demonstrate our algorithm on 32 qubits of Quantinuum's H2-2 with a bond-dimension-4 MPS for the half-filled 4 × 4 lattice and achieve a relative ground-state energy error of 16 ± 4% after postselection, reduced to 3.5 ± 0.5% by calibration using low-order moments from the MPS. Compared with other feedback-free hybrid algorithms, even under generous assumptions, our method requires fewer samples than quantum-selected configuration interaction and fewer two-qubit gates than quantum Krylov methods.
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BibTeX
@misc{corbett2026explicitly,
title = {{Explicitly correlated ground states with a feedback-free variational hybrid algorithm}},
author = {Benjamin Corbett and Akimasa Miyake},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.18681},
eprint = {2610.18681},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.18681},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Explicitly correlated ground states with a feedback-free variational hybrid algorithm
AU - Benjamin Corbett
AU - Akimasa Miyake
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/13
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.18681
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.18681
AB - Explicitly correlated methods, which represent dominant short-range correlations by a diagonal Jastrow-type correlator, are designed to accurately describe systems of strongly correlated electrons, such as the fully periodic 2D Fermi--Hubbard model. However, as the reference state is compact in momentum space whereas the correlator acts naturally in real space, there is a fundamental mismatch of bases that classical algorithms resolve only by restricting the reference or the correlator. Here we propose a hybrid algorithm in which a quantum processor prepares a low-entanglement momentum-space matrix product state (MPS), precomputed classically by the transcorrelated method at the cost of a nonvariational energy, rotates it to real space, and measures in bases fixed by the Hamiltonian. Because the measurement bases are independent of the correlator, the correlator can be variationally optimized entirely in classical post-processing with no quantum-classical feedback loop. We demonstrate our algorithm on 32 qubits of Quantinuum's H2-2 with a bond-dimension-4 MPS for the half-filled 4 × 4 lattice and achieve a relative ground-state energy error of 16 ± 4% after postselection, reduced to 3.5 ± 0.5% by calibration using low-order moments from the MPS. Compared with other feedback-free hybrid algorithms, even under generous assumptions, our method requires fewer samples than quantum-selected configuration interaction and fewer two-qubit gates than quantum Krylov methods.
ER -