{"id":206287,"date":"2025-02-12T22:51:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T04:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/quantum-meets-ai-new-research-uncovers-novel-photochromic-materials"},"modified":"2025-02-12T22:51:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T04:51:51","slug":"quantum-meets-ai-new-research-uncovers-novel-photochromic-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/quantum-meets-ai-new-research-uncovers-novel-photochromic-materials","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Meets AI: New Research Uncovers Novel Photochromic Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-meets-ai-new-research-uncovers-novel-photochromic-materials.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A joint research team has developed an innovative quantum-classical computing approach to design photochromic materials\u2014light-sensitive compounds\u2014offering a powerful tool to accelerate material discovery. Their findings were published in <em><i>Intelligent Computing<\/i><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Building on their previous work in the same <a href=\"https:\/\/spj.science.org\/doi\/10.34133\/icomputing.0037?adobe_mc=MCMID%3D85722103346172783222587251249462789459%7CMCORGID%3D242B6472541199F70A4C98A6%2540AdobeOrg%7CTS%3D1739174061\">journal<\/a>, the researchers introduced a computational-basis variational quantum deflation method as the foundation of their approach.<\/p>\n<p>To validate its effectiveness, the team conducted a case study in photopharmacology, screening 4,096 diarylethene derivatives. They identified five promising candidates that exhibited two critical properties: large maximum absorbance wavelengths and high oscillator strengths. These characteristics are crucial for applications such as light-controlled drug delivery in photopharmacology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A joint research team has developed an innovative quantum-classical computing approach to design photochromic materials\u2014light-sensitive compounds\u2014offering a powerful tool to accelerate material discovery. Their findings were published in Intelligent Computing. Building on their previous work in the same journal, the researchers introduced a computational-basis variational quantum deflation method as the foundation of their approach. To [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206287","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=206287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}