Quantum Algorithms for the Dynamics of Molecular Quantum Systems

Open quantum system evolution in the presence of an environment is crucial to understanding and improving many processes including the communication of quantum information, the transfer of energy, and decoherence dynamics in quantum technologies. Quantum computing platforms have emerged as a promising route to modelling and predicting the behaviour of such systems. However, mapping inherently non-unitary dynamics into the unitary framework of gate-based quantum algorithms is a challenging task. Here, I will discuss two different density matrix gate-based quantum algorithms to predict the dynamics of open quantum systems, along with their application to fermionic molecular systems.