Job announcements relevant to people interested in electronic structure calculations…
Due to the large number of posts recently, there is currently a delay of several weeks between posts being submitted and the corresponding emails being distributed to all users. Please bear with us while we try to improve this. In the meantime – and until this notice is removed – it would assist us considerably if you could submit only important and/or urgent posts and thus help to reduce the size of the mail queue. Under no circumstances should you resend posts multiple times when you find the emails are not distributed immediately.
In light of the Russian military offensive in Ukraine, we request that announcements relating to events, jobs and other activities associated with institutions supported by the Russian and Belarusian states are not posted to the Psi-k forum.
Phd position open in the field of Quantum Simula ... (No replies)
Back to Job listings...
The PhD position is supported by a fellowship from the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network MOQS (MOlecular Quantum Simulations). (moqs.eu)
Main host Institution: University of L’Aquila (Italy)
Secondment Institutions: IBM-Reseach, Zurich (Switzerland) and CINECA, Bologna (Italy)
The project deals with the development of new strategies to tackle the electronic structure of molecular systems using quantum computers. Currently available quantum devices in combination with algorithms such as the Variational Quantum Eigensolver are a valuable route to reach the chemical accuracy of the evaluation of ground state molecular energies. A crucial role in this process is to design wavefunctions that are at the same time accurate and compact, in order to have low-depth circuits using a small number of gate operations. The PhD student will develop hardware efficient wavefunctions and algorithms inspired by many-body and quantum chemistry techniques. Error mitigation schemes will be also developed to further increase the accuracy of the obtained results. The developed methodology will be applied to several chemical systems, including well-known correlated and “difficult” cases in quantum chemistry.