Hybrid quantum-classical approach for coupled-cluster Greens function theory

The three key elements of a quantum simulation are state preparation, time evolution, and measurement. While the complexity scaling of dynamics and measurements are well known, many state preparation methods are strongly system-dependent and require prior knowledge of the systems eigenvalue spectrum. Here, we report on a quantum-classical implementation of the coupled-cluster Greens function (CCGF) method, which replaces explicit ground state preparation with the task of applying unitary operators to a simple product state. While our approach is broadly applicable to a wide range of models, we demonstrate it here for the Anderson impurity model (AIM). The method requires a number of T gates that grows as $ mathcal{O} left(N^5 right)$ per time step to calculate the impurity Greens function in the time domain, where $N$ is the total number of energy levels in the AIM. For comparison, a classical CCGF calculation of the same order would require computational resources that grow as $ mathcal{O} left(N^6 right)$ per time step.