Research work of an REU student Joseph Lee has just been published in Physical Review A.

The research work of an REU student Joseph Lee has just been published in Physical Review A. The paper, entitled Decomposition of high-rank factorized unitary coupled-cluster operators using ancilla and multiqubit controlled low-rank counterparts. This work showed how one can trade off using extra qubits for circuit depth in applying high-rank unitary coupled cluster terms to a quantum wavefunction. This is a methodology employed to determine the energy of molecules in quantum chemistry calculations. This work was co-authored by Luogen Xu, a graduate student in the department, and Prof. Freericks. The work was supported by the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. Paper link: https://journals-aps-org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.105.012406