Benchmarking variational quantum eigensolvers for the square-octagon-lattice Kitaev model

Andy C. Y. Li, M. Sohaib Alam, Thomas Iadecola, 4 Ammar Jahin, Doga Murat Kurkcuoglu, Richard Li, Peter P. Orth, 4 A. Barış Özgüler, Gabriel N. Perdue, and Norm M. Tubman Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL, 60510, USA Rigetti Computing, Berkeley, CA, 94701, USA Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA Ames Laboratory, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA Department of Physics, University of Florida, 2001 Museum Rd, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab. (QuAIL), Exploration Technology Directorate, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA (Dated: September 9, 2021)