Qronecker: A Certifiable Kronecker Compression Primitive for Quantum-Chemistry Hamiltonians
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Quantum Physics arXiv:2603.06963 (quant-ph) [Submitted on 7 Mar 2026] Title:Qronecker: A Certifiable Kronecker Compression Primitive for Quantum-Chemistry Hamiltonians Authors:Yuqi Zhang, Sixu Chen, Feixiong Cheng, Qiang Guan View a PDF of the paper titled Qronecker: A Certifiable Kronecker Compression Primitive for Quantum-Chemistry Hamiltonians, by Yuqi Zhang and 3 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Processing qubit Hamiltonians derived from electronic-structure problems can become classically prohibitive because many downstream manipulations still rely on dense operator constructions whose cost grows exponentially with qubit number. We introduce Qronecker, a cut-aware low-rank Kronecker decomposition algorithm that turns Hamiltonian compression into a certifiable, resource-aware decision primitive. Operating entirely in Pauli coefficient space, Qronecker avoids forming dense 2^n x 2^n matrices, constructs low-rank Kronecker approximations under a chosen bipartition, and returns both an instance-specific compressibility curve and a state-independent worst-case energy certificate that links rank and cut choices to conservative energy-deviation bounds. Across molecular benchmarks comprising hundreds of systems up to 30 qubits, we find that traceless low-rank structure is common but heterogeneous: many screened systems reach high coefficient-space fidelity at low rank, yielding large savings in classical preprocessing and conditional reductions in downstream circuit-resource proxies, while the certificate remains valid but conservative on the auditable subset. The same analysis shows that fixed global fidelity targets are not generally sufficient for chemistry-level guarantees, motivating adaptive rank and cut selection. These results position Qronecker as a certifiable compression primitive for rank and cut selection in quantum-chemistry Hamiltonian processing. Comments: Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph) Cite as: arXiv:2603.06963 [quant-ph] (or arXiv:2603.06963v1 [quant-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.06963 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Yuqi Zhang [view email] [v1] Sat, 7 Mar 2026 00:54:27 UTC (600 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Qronecker: A Certifiable Kronecker Compression Primitive for Quantum-Chemistry Hamiltonians, by Yuqi Zhang and 3 other authorsView PDFHTML (experimental)TeX Source view license Current browse context: quant-ph new | recent | 2026-03 References & Citations INSPIRE HEP NASA ADSGoogle Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) Links to Code Toggle Papers with Code (What is Papers with Code?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)