Variational quantum eigensolver techniques for simulating carbon monoxide oxidation

Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) methods aim to maximize the resources of existing noisy devices. However, they encounter difficulties in simulating molecules of industrially-relevant sizes, such as constructing the efficient ansatz. Adaptive variational algorithms (ADAPT-VQE) can solve this problem but with a significant increase in the number of measurements. Here, we reduce the measurement overhead of ADAPT-VQE via adding operator batches to the ansatz while keeping it compact. We reformulate the previously proposed qubit pool completeness criteria for the tapered qubit space and propose an automated pool construction procedure. Our numerical results indicate that reducing the qubit pool size from polynomial to linear conversely increases the number of measurements. We simulate a set of molecules, participating in the carbon monoxide oxidation processes using the statevector simulator and compare the results with VQE-UCCSD and classical methods. Our results pave the way towards usage of variational approaches for solving practically relevant chemical problems.