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ArticleJournal of chemical theory and computation2026

Molecular Quantum Computations on a Protein.

Akhil Shajan, Danil Kaliakin, Fangchun Liang, Thaddeus Pellegrini, Hakan Doga, Subhamoy Bhowmik, Susanta Das, Antonio Mezzacapo, Mario Motta, Kenneth M Merz

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Article in Journal of chemical theory and computation, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Localized sample-based quantum diagonalization for strongly correlated chemistry.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Akhil ShajanCenter for Computational Life Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-8370-3382
Danil KaliakinCenter for Computational Life Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9354-8248
Fangchun LiangCenter for Computational Life Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-5859-8231
Thaddeus PellegriniIBM Quantum, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598, United States.
Hakan DogaIBM Quantum, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598, United States.
Subhamoy BhowmikCenter for Computational Life Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States.ORCID 0009-0002-3802-0376
Susanta DasCenter for Computational Life Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-7981-5162
Antonio MezzacapoIBM Quantum, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598, United States.
Mario MottaIBM Quantum, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-1647-9864
Kenneth M MerzCenter for Computational Life Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-9139-5893

Funding

Modeling Transition Metal Ion Binding to ProteinsR01GM130641 · NIGMS · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI KENNETH M. MERZ · 2019 to 2026
$2.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM130641
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present the implementation of a fragment-based, quantum-centric supercomputing workflow for computing molecular electronic structure using quantum hardware. The workflow is applied to predict the relative energies of two conformers of the 303-atom Trp-cage miniprotein. The methodology employs wave function-based embedding (EWF) as the underlying fragmentation framework, in which all atoms in the system are explicitly included in the configuration interaction (CI) simulations. We employ sample-based quantum diagonalization (SQD) solver for challenging fragments and full configuration interaction (FCI) solver for trivial fragments. The EWF-(FCI,SQD) results are compared against EWF-MP2 and EWF-CCSD benchmarks. The impact of fragmentation on the predicted relative energies of the Trp-cage conformers is further evaluated by comparison with unfragmented RI-MP2 and DLPNO-CCSD calculations. The results demonstrate that large-scale electronic configuration interaction (CI) simulations of protein systems containing hundreds or even thousands of atoms can be realized through the combined use of quantum and classical computing resources.

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PeptidesProteinsQuantum TheoryMolecular Dynamics SimulationQuantum MechanicsThermodynamicsPeptidesProteins

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PMID42241238
PMCPMC13296500

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