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arxiv: 2511.13677 · v2 · submitted 2025-11-17 · ⚛️ physics.chem-ph · physics.comp-ph

Open-shell frozen natural orbital approach for quantum eigensolvers

Angela F. Harper , Xiaobing Liu , Scott N. Genin , Ilya G. Ryabinkin This is my paper

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keywords frozen natural orbitalZAPT2open-shellsinglet-triplet gapquantum eigensolvercomplete active spacevirtual space reduction
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ZAPT2-based frozen natural orbitals reduce virtual space size while converging singlet-triplet gaps in open-shell systems.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper develops an open-shell frozen natural orbital approach that applies second-order Z-averaged perturbation theory to select the most important virtual orbitals and shrink the active space. This selection produces systematic improvement in correlation energies and especially in singlet-triplet T1-S0 energy gaps as the complete active space grows. A sympathetic reader would care because the method supports accurate quantum eigensolver calculations on larger open-shell molecules and complexes that demand extended basis sets, without requiring the full virtual space.

Core claim

The ZAPT-FNO selection scheme significantly outperforms the canonical molecular orbital virtual space truncation scheme based on Hartree-Fock orbital energies. The ZAPT-FNO-selected virtual orbitals lead to a systematic convergence of the correlation energies and the singlet-triplet T1-S0 energy gaps with respect to the complete active space size. This is confirmed in CASCI calculations on H2O2 and O2, in iQCC calculations on stretched CH2, and in iQCC calculations on the phosphorescent Ir(ppy)3 complex with 260 electrons, where the gaps approach the experimental value with enlarging basis set and CAS size.

What carries the argument

The ZAPT-FNO selection scheme, which ranks virtual orbitals by their importance according to second-order Z-averaged perturbation theory and removes the least important ones from the restricted open-shell Hartree-Fock virtual space.

If this is right

  • Systematic convergence of both correlation energies and T1-S0 gaps occurs with respect to CAS size.
  • Performance exceeds that of simple Hartree-Fock energy-based truncation, especially with large multiple-polarized and augmented basis sets.
  • Accurate T1-S0 gaps are obtained for stretched CH2 using the iQCC quantum eigensolver with reduced active spaces.
  • Robust convergence toward the experimental gap is achieved for Ir(ppy)3 when both basis set and CAS size are increased.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same orbital ranking could be tested on other open-shell excited-state properties such as oscillator strengths.
  • Combining ZAPT-FNO with different quantum eigensolvers might extend the reachable system size for transition-metal complexes.
  • Direct comparison of ZAPT-FNO gaps against full-configuration-interaction benchmarks on small open-shell cases would quantify residual error.

Load-bearing premise

That second-order Z-averaged perturbation theory ranks virtual orbitals with enough accuracy to preserve the target singlet-triplet gaps across the tested molecules and basis sets.

What would settle it

If enlarging the CAS size built from ZAPT-FNO virtual orbitals fails to produce monotonic convergence of the T1-S0 gap toward the full-virtual-space result or the experimental value.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2511.13677 by Angela F. Harper, Ilya G. Ryabinkin, Scott N. Genin, Xiaobing Liu.

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Figure 2. Figure 2: FIG. 2. The T [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: FIG. 3. (a) NOONs for the virtual orbitals of O [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4. (a) Bond dissociation energy path of a breaking of a single [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: FIG. 5. (a) Heatmap showing the orbital overlap [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: FIG. 6. (a) Each tile shows the NOONs of the first 10 virtual [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_6.png] view at source ↗
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We present an open-shell frozen natural orbital (FNO) approach, which utilizes the second-order Z-averaged perturbation theory (ZAPT2), to reduce the restricted opten-shell Hartree-Fock virtual space size with controllable accuracy. Our ZAPT2 frozen natural orbital (ZAPT-FNO) selection scheme significantly outperforms the canonical molecular orbital virtual space truncation scheme based on Hartree-Fock orbital energies, especially when using large multiple-polarized and augmented basis sets. We demonstrate that the ZAPT-FNO-selected virtual orbitals lead to a systematic convergence of the correlation energies, but more importantly to the singlet-triplet T$_1$-S$_ 0$ energy gaps with respect to the complete active space (CAS) [occupied + virtual] size. We confirm our findings by simulating T$_1$-S$_ 0$ gaps in H$_2$O$_2$ and O$_2$ molecules using the traditional complete active space configuration interaction (CASCI) approach, as well as in stretched CH$_2$, for which we also employed the iterative qubit coupled cluster (iQCC) method as a quantum eigensolver. Finally, we applied the iQCC method with ZAPT-FNO-selected active space to the phosphorescent Ir(ppy)$_3$ complex with 260 electrons, where extended basis sets are required to achieve chemical (ca. 1 m$E_h$) accuracy. In this case, CASCI results are not available; however, the iQCC-computed T$_1$-S$_ 0$ gaps show robust convergence with enlarging basis set and CAS size, approaching the experimental value. Thus, the ZAPT-FNO method is very promising for improving the accuracy of quantum chemical modelling in a resource-efficient manner, and opens the door to simulating open-shell states of large materials within realistic active space sizes and without compromising on basis-set quality.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript introduces an open-shell frozen natural orbital (FNO) approach based on second-order Z-averaged perturbation theory (ZAPT2) applied to restricted open-shell Hartree-Fock references. The ZAPT-FNO scheme is used to truncate the virtual orbital space while aiming for controllable accuracy in correlation energies and, more importantly, singlet-triplet T1-S0 energy gaps. The authors test the method with CASCI on H2O2, O2, and stretched CH2, extend it to the iQCC quantum eigensolver on stretched CH2, and apply iQCC with ZAPT-FNO to the 260-electron Ir(ppy)3 complex, reporting systematic convergence of the gaps with CAS (occupied + virtual) size and approach to the experimental value.

Significance. If the central numerical demonstrations hold, the work offers a practical route to maintain basis-set quality while keeping active-space sizes manageable for quantum eigensolvers applied to open-shell excited states. The explicit focus on T1-S0 gaps rather than total energies, together with the realistic Ir(ppy)3 test case, strengthens its relevance for phosphorescent materials modeling.

major comments (2)
  1. [Results (H2O2/O2/CH2)] Results section on H2O2, O2, and stretched CH2: the manuscript asserts systematic convergence of T1-S0 gaps with CAS size but provides neither full numerical tables nor explicit error bars on the gaps; without these data it is difficult to quantify the improvement over HF-energy truncation or to confirm that the convergence is monotonic specifically for the gap rather than only for the total correlation energy.
  2. [Method and CH2 results] Application to stretched CH2 and O2: ZAPT2 is a single-reference perturbative method; the paper does not compare its virtual-orbital ranking against a multi-reference alternative (e.g., CASPT2 natural orbitals or MP2-based selection) to test whether virtuals critical to the T1-S0 gap in statically correlated regimes are under-ranked.
minor comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: 'restricted opten-shell' is a typographical error and should read 'restricted open-shell'.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: the subscript notation 'T$_1$-S$_ 0$' contains an extraneous space before the subscript 0.
  3. [Figures/Tables] Figures and tables: ensure all convergence plots include quantitative metrics (e.g., mean absolute deviations or R² values) and that supplementary material contains the complete raw data for reproducibility.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their careful reading of the manuscript and for the constructive comments. We address each major point below and indicate the changes planned for the revised version.

read point-by-point responses

  1. Referee: Results section on H2O2, O2, and stretched CH2: the manuscript asserts systematic convergence of T1-S0 gaps with CAS size but provides neither full numerical tables nor explicit error bars on the gaps; without these data it is difficult to quantify the improvement over HF-energy truncation or to confirm that the convergence is monotonic specifically for the gap rather than only for the total correlation energy.

    Authors: We agree that additional numerical detail would improve clarity. In the revised manuscript we will insert full tables of T1-S0 gaps versus CAS size for H2O2, O2 and stretched CH2, together with the corresponding HF-truncation results. Error estimates (or standard deviations across basis-set extrapolations) will be added to each entry so that monotonicity of the gap, rather than only the total energy, can be assessed directly. revision: yes

  2. Referee: Application to stretched CH2 and O2: ZAPT2 is a single-reference perturbative method; the paper does not compare its virtual-orbital ranking against a multi-reference alternative (e.g., CASPT2 natural orbitals or MP2-based selection) to test whether virtuals critical to the T1-S0 gap in statically correlated regimes are under-ranked.

    Authors: We acknowledge that ZAPT2 is single-reference and that a comparison with CASPT2 or MR-based natural orbitals would be informative for strongly correlated cases. Our current results show that ZAPT-FNO nevertheless produces systematic gap convergence on the stretched-CH2 and O2 test systems. In the revision we will add a concise discussion of this limitation and of the practical trade-off that motivated the ZAPT2 choice. A full benchmark against multi-reference orbital selection is computationally demanding and is noted as future work rather than performed here. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No circularity: ZAPT-FNO selection uses independent perturbative ranking before gap computation

full rationale

The paper applies standard ZAPT2 formulas (second-order Z-averaged perturbation theory amplitudes from a restricted open-shell Hartree-Fock reference) to rank and truncate virtual orbitals, then computes T1-S0 gaps via separate CASCI or iQCC calculations on the resulting active spaces. No equation in the provided text equates the reported gaps to the ZAPT2 selection metric by construction, nor does any load-bearing step reduce the convergence claim to a fitted parameter or self-citation chain. The numerical demonstrations for H2O2, O2, stretched CH2, and Ir(ppy)3 are independent evaluations against external benchmarks (experiment, full CAS), satisfying the criteria for a self-contained derivation with no reduction to inputs.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The central claim rests on the domain assumption that ZAPT2 orbital rankings remain reliable when the active space is truncated and when the target property is a small energy gap rather than total correlation energy.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption ZAPT2 perturbation theory supplies a sufficiently accurate measure of virtual orbital importance for singlet-triplet gaps
    Invoked to justify the selection scheme over HF orbital energies

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