  Accurately treating electron correlation in the wavefunction is a key
challenge for both classical and quantum computational chemistry. Classical
methods have been developed which explicitly account for this correlation by
incorporating inter-electronic distances into the wavefunction. The
transcorrelated method transfers this explicit correlation from the
wavefunction to a transformed, non-Hermitian Hamiltonian, whose right-hand
eigenvectors become easier to obtain than those of the original Hamiltonian. In
this work, we show that the transcorrelated method can reduce the resources
required to obtain accurate energies from electronic structure calculations on
quantum computers. We overcome the limitations introduced by the non-Hermitian
Hamiltonian by using quantum algorithms for imaginary time evolution.
