Excited-State Workflows

Two categories are supported.


Post-VQE methods

Require a converged noiseless VQE reference.

  • LR-VQE

  • EOM-VQE

  • QSE

  • EOM-QSE

Example:

vqe -m H2 --lr-vqe --lr-k 4

Typical workflow:

VQE → response problem → excitation energies

Variational excited states

Optimised directly.

  • SSVQE

  • VQD

Example:

vqe -m H2 --vqd --k 3