Yes, it will not be 3000 years, it will only be 1000 years, lol. On Tuesday, 20 May 2025 at 15:01:12 UTC+3 John Clark wrote:
> *Many people, including me, have said that the killer application of a > Quantum Computer is not in breaking codes or factoring large numbers but in > simulating the quantum mechanical behavior of materials. The May 14 2025 > issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society published a report by > Ting Rei Tan and associates reporting that for the first time a quantum > computer that used ONLY A SINGLE ATOM performed a full quantum simulation > of how the simple molecules Allene, butatriene and pyrazine react to light. > Those molecules are so small that conventional supercomputers have been > able to duplicate that feat before, but that's about their limit because > molecules that are only slightly larger require exponentially more > conventional computer resources, and no Quantum Computer has come close to > simulating this level of complexity in the energy levels of those molecules > before. * > > *Most had thought that in order to beat conventional computers and perform > useful chemical calculations a Quantum Computer would need many millions of > qubits, but Ting Rei Tan, the lead researcher, disagrees:* > > *“The key advantage of this approach is that it is incredibly > hardware-efficient, The single atom can encode the information that is > normally spread across a dozen or so qubits. With this approach a quantum > computer could be able to do useful simulations using only a few dozen > ions."* > > > *Experimental Quantum Simulation of Chemical Dynamics > <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.04044>* > > *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* > ene > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/0fc34cfa-7ed5-40e8-a17d-64923f77e865n%40googlegroups.com.
