{"id":216628,"date":"2025-06-26T01:19:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T06:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/new-hybrid-quantum-classical-computing-approach-used-to-study-chemical-systems"},"modified":"2025-06-26T01:19:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T06:19:16","slug":"new-hybrid-quantum-classical-computing-approach-used-to-study-chemical-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/new-hybrid-quantum-classical-computing-approach-used-to-study-chemical-systems","title":{"rendered":"New hybrid quantum\u2013classical computing approach used to study chemical systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-hybrid-quantum-classical-computing-approach-used-to-study-chemical-systems2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Caltech professor of chemistry Sandeep Sharma and colleagues from IBM and the RIKEN Center for Computational Science in Japan are giving us a glimpse of the future of computing. The team has used quantum computing in combination with classical distributed computing to attack a notably challenging problem in quantum chemistry: determining the electronic energy levels of a relatively complex molecule.<\/p>\n<p>The work demonstrates the promise of such a quantum\u2013classical hybrid approach for advancing not only <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+chemistry\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum chemistry<\/a>, but also fields such as <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/materials+science\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">materials science<\/a>, nanotechnology, and drug discovery, where insight into the electronic fingerprint of materials can reveal how they will behave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have shown that you can take classical algorithms that run on high-performance classical computers and combine them with quantum algorithms that run on quantum computers to get useful chemical results,\u201d says Sharma, a new member of the Caltech faculty whose work focuses on developing algorithms to study quantum <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical+systems\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical systems<\/a>. \u201cWe call this quantum-centric supercomputing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caltech professor of chemistry Sandeep Sharma and colleagues from IBM and the RIKEN Center for Computational Science in Japan are giving us a glimpse of the future of computing. The team has used quantum computing in combination with classical distributed computing to attack a notably challenging problem in quantum chemistry: determining the electronic energy levels [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,41,4,1617,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-information-science","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216628","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}