{"id":170776,"date":"2023-08-28T13:23:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T18:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/scientists-use-quantum-device-to-slow-down-simulated-chemical-reaction-100-billion-times"},"modified":"2023-08-28T13:23:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T18:23:14","slug":"scientists-use-quantum-device-to-slow-down-simulated-chemical-reaction-100-billion-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/scientists-use-quantum-device-to-slow-down-simulated-chemical-reaction-100-billion-times","title":{"rendered":"Scientists use quantum device to slow down simulated chemical reaction 100 billion times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OzfwyJMGNVg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the University of Sydney have, for the first time, used a quantum computer to engineer and directly observe a process critical in chemical reactions by slowing it down by a factor of 100 billion times.<\/p>\n<p>Joint lead researcher and Ph.D. student, Vanessa Olaya Agudelo, said, It is by understanding these basic processes inside and between molecules that we can open up a new world of possibilities in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/materials+science\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">materials science<\/a>, drug design, or <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/solar+energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solar energy<\/a> harvesting.<\/p>\n<p>It could also help improve other processes that rely on molecules interacting with light, such as how smog is created or how the ozone layer is damaged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the University of Sydney have, for the first time, used a quantum computer to engineer and directly observe a process critical in chemical reactions by slowing it down by a factor of 100 billion times. Joint lead researcher and Ph.D. student, Vanessa Olaya Agudelo, said, It is by understanding these basic processes inside [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,1507,1617,1633],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-environmental","category-quantum-physics","category-solar-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170776","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=170776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}