On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 3:56 AM Giulio Prisco <[email protected]> wrote:
> *> 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 > <https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2025/05/15/quantum-simulation-of-chemical-dynamics-achieved-for-the-first-t.html>* *Australia is a small country but when it comes to Quantum Computers it's punching well above its weight. * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* > > > 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 -- 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/CAJPayv0K11ep9SH_nEiun2Ar0-AGePsDOWuc8WceDwxFKNv_HQ%40mail.gmail.com.
