Vertex

A high-performance VQE simulation toolchain

Goal

Vertex is a modular, general-purpose, efficient plantform for VQE expermiment with Easy-To-Use python interface.

To-do list

1. Interface between openfermion-Psi4 and efficient quantum circuit simulator.

keywords :

QuEST, openfermion-cirq, qulacs

2. An classical optimzer adapted to quantum chemistry problem at the heart of VQE.

keywords :

Simplex, Scipy optimizer, MP2 initial guess.

3. Locality-adapted Hamiltonian transformer

https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.7863

4. Symmetry, Spin, N-electron constrained Hamiltonian generator

https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.08213

5. An interface between simulating circuit and IBM-Q architecture specifically optimized circuit.

6. Noise simulation to mimic NISQ device

7. Python interface