Perez-Obiol, A.Márquez Romero, AntonioMenéndez Sánchez, JavierRíos Huguet, ArnauGarcia-Saez, A.Julia-Diaz, B2024-09-202024-09-202023-07-292045-2322https://hdl.handle.net/2445/215333The nuclear shell model is one of the prime many-body methods to study the structure of atomic nuclei, but it is hampered by an exponential scaling on the basis size as the number of particles increases. We present a shell-model quantum circuit design strategy to find nuclear ground states by exploiting an adaptive variational quantum eigensolver algorithm. Our circuit implementation is in excellent agreement with classical shell-model simulations for a dozen of light and medium-mass nuclei, including neon and calcium isotopes. We quantify the circuit depth, width and number of gates to encode realistic shell-model wavefunctions. Our strategy also addresses explicitly energy measurements and the required number of circuits to perform them. Our simulated circuits approach the benchmark results exponentially with a polynomial scaling in quantum resources for each nucleus. This work paves the way for quantum computing shell-model studies across the nuclear chart and our quantum resource quantification may be used in configuration-interaction calculations of other fermionic systems.1 p.application/pdfengcc-by (c) Perez-Obiol, A. et al., 2023http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Ordinadors quànticsProtonsNeutronsQuantum computersProtonsNeutronsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article7390112024-09-20info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess