Here's a press release: https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2025/05/15/quantum-simulation-of-chemical-dynamics-achieved-for-the-first-t.html
On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM John Clark <[email protected]> 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 > > John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > ene > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "extropolis" 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/extropolis/CAJPayv2HtzEF_%2BOfxK6vwFvp-n%3D9P-0sbqiLHHHwoTpM841w7A%40mail.gmail.com. -- 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/CAKTCJydE1zL4%3DUF%3D6j0pM%2BCfsTg5VS2_K2mZSr2wLQDZ3mCrPA%40mail.gmail.com.
