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ArticleNature communications2026

Simulating electron transfer on noisy quantum computers.

Marvin Gajewski, Alejandro D Somoza, Gary Schmiedinghoff, Pascal Stadler, Michael Marthaler, Birger Horstmann

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Article in Nature communications, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Marvin GajewskiInstitute of Engineering Thermodynamics, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Ulm, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8130-6698
Alejandro D SomozaInstitute of Engineering Thermodynamics, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Ulm, Germany. alejandro.somoza@dlr.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4973-8052
Gary SchmiedinghoffInstitute of Software Technology, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Köln, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2259-7365
Pascal StadlerHQS Quantum Simulations GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9873-0041
Michael MarthalerHQS Quantum Simulations GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Birger HorstmannInstitute of Engineering Thermodynamics, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Ulm, Germany. birger.horstmann@dlr.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1500-0578

Funding

Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy) qci.dlr.de/projects/alquBundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy) qci.dlr.de/projects/basiqBundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie (Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology) qci.dlr.de/projects/basiqDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) INST 40/575-1 FUGGDeutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (German Centre for Air and Space Travel) ELEVATEMinisterium für Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Wohnungsbau Baden-Württemberg (Ministry of Economics, Labor and Housing of Baden-Württemberg) KQCBW
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While simple spin-boson models have been realized on quantum hardware, simulating extended electronic networks with local vibrational environments remains a fundamental challenge in the presence of non-equilibrium, long-lived electronic-vibrational (vibronic) coherence. We present a framework for the digital-analog simulation of open quantum systems governed by Hamiltonians with linear-vibronic coupling (LVC) and structured vibrational environments. Our approach exploits the intrinsic dissipation of qubits in near-term quantum hardware as a resource to emulate vibrational relaxation, combined with a model-specific error mitigation scheme to filter out noise sources incompatible with the target open system. We validate our strategy by resolving the vibronic transfer spectra of a one-dimensional donor-acceptor chain on IBM superconducting processors, reproducing non-Markovian dynamics and scaling the chain length up to 10 electronic sites, an unprecedented scale for chemical dynamics on quantum computers. Our model of vibronic electron transfer offers a portable, application-oriented benchmark for simulating long-lived entangled states on NISQ computers.

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PMCPMC13219408

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