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Quantum solver for single-impurity Anderson models with particle-hole symmetry

M. Karabin1,2,*, T. Sohail3, D. Bykov3, E. A. Coello Pérez3,†, S. Ghosh3, M. Gopalakrishnan Meena3, S. Kim3, A. Shehata3, I.-S. Suh3 et al.

H. Terletska1,2 and M. Eisenbach3

  • *Contact author: mariia.karabin@mtsu.edu
  • †Contact author: coellopereea@ornl.gov
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Phys. Rev. Research 8, 033066 – Published 16 July, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/7ys3-tl4l

Abstract

Quantum embedding methods, such as dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT), provide a powerful framework for investigating strongly correlated materials. A central computational bottleneck in DMFT is in solving the Anderson impurity model (AIM), whose exact solution is classically intractable for large bath sizes. In this work, we benchmark a quantum-classical hybrid solver tailored for particle-hole symmetric AIMs, using the variational quantum eigensolver to prepare the ground state of the model with shallow quantum circuits. The solver uses shallow quantum ansätze and one set of variational parameters to prepare the ground state and its particle and hole excitations, enabling the construction of the impurity Green’s function through a continued-fraction expansion. We evaluate the performance of this approach across a few bath sizes and interaction strengths under noisy, shot-limited conditions. We compare three optimization routines (COBYLA, Adam, and L-BFGS-B) in terms of convergence and fidelity, assess the benefits of estimating a quantum-computed moment correction to the variational energies, and benchmark the approach by comparing the density of states computed from the impurity Green’s function against that obtained using a classical pipeline. Our results demonstrate the feasibility of Green’s function construction on near-term devices and establish practical benchmarks for quantum impurity solvers embedded within self-consistent DMFT loops.

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Phys. Rev. Research 8, 033066– Published 16 July, 2026
  • Received 16 January 2026
  • Accepted 8 June 2026
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