Towards chemistry simulations on silicon quantum processors (UCL)

Christopher K. Long, Kieran Dalton, Yordan S. Yordanov, Charles G. Smith, Nicholas J. Mayhall, Sophia E. Economou, Edwin Barnes, Frederico Martins, Crispin H. W. Barnes, David R. M. Arvidsson-Shukur, and Normann Mertig

Date & time: 18 February 2026 11:00–11:20 GMT

Location: Ray Dolby Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Conference: Presentations to students visiting from UCL’s doctoral training centre

I presented work from Refs.  [1–3].

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• Towards chemistry simulations on silicon quantum processors (Hersonissos)
• Towards chemistry simulations on silicon quantum processors (HCL)

References

[1]

Kieran Dalton, Christopher K. Long, Yordan S. Yordanov, Charles G. Smith, Crispin H. W. Barnes, Normann Mertig, and David R. M. Arvidsson-Shukur. Quantifying the effect of gate errors on variational quantum eigensolvers for quantum chemistry, npj Quantum Information 10, 18 (2024), DOI: 10.1038/s41534-024-00808-x. ↩

[2]

Christopher K. Long, Kieran Dalton, Crispin H. W. Barnes, David R. M. Arvidsson-Shukur, and Normann Mertig. Layering and subpool exploration for adaptive variational quantum eigensolvers: Reducing circuit depth, runtime, and susceptibility to noise, Phys. Rev. A 109, 042413 (2024), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.109.042413. ↩

[3]

Christopher K. Long, Nicholas J. Mayhall, Sophia E. Economou, Edwin Barnes, Crispin H. W. Barnes, Frederico Martins, David R. M. Arvidsson-Shukur, and Normann Mertig. Minimal state-preparation times for silicon spin qubits, npj Quantum Information 11, 113 (2025), DOI: 10.1038/s41534-025-01027-8.

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