{"id":168522,"date":"2023-07-28T20:22:24","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T01:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/researchers-use-quantum-computer-to-identify-molecular-candidate-for-development-of-more-efficient-solar-cells"},"modified":"2023-07-28T20:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T01:22:24","slug":"researchers-use-quantum-computer-to-identify-molecular-candidate-for-development-of-more-efficient-solar-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/researchers-use-quantum-computer-to-identify-molecular-candidate-for-development-of-more-efficient-solar-cells","title":{"rendered":"Researchers use quantum computer to identify molecular candidate for development of more efficient solar cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-use-quantum-computer-to-identify-molecular-candidate-for-development-of-more-efficient-solar-cells3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using the full capabilities of the Quantinuum H1-1 quantum computer, researchers from the Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory not only demonstrated best practices for scientific computing on current quantum systems but also produced an intriguing scientific result.<\/p>\n<p>By modeling <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/singlet\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">singlet<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fission\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fission <\/a>\u2014in which absorption of a single photon of light by a molecule produces two <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/excited+states\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">excited states <\/a>\u2014the team confirmed that the linear H<sub>4<\/sub> molecule\u2019s energetic levels match the fission process\u2019s requirements. The linear H<sub>4<\/sub> molecule is, simply, a molecule made of four hydrogen atoms arranged in a linear fashion.<\/p>\n<p>A molecule\u2019s energetic levels are the energies of each quantum state involved in a phenomenon, such as singlet fission, and how they relate and compare with one another. The fact that the linear molecule\u2019s energetic levels are conducive to singlet fission could prove to be useful knowledge in the overall effort to develop more efficient solar panels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using the full capabilities of the Quantinuum H1-1 quantum computer, researchers from the Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory not only demonstrated best practices for scientific computing on current quantum systems but also produced an intriguing scientific result. By modeling singlet fission \u2014in which absorption of a single photon of light by a molecule [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}