{"id":83127,"date":"2018-09-28T08:42:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T15:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/microsofts-quantum-development-kit-adds-a-chemical-simulation-library"},"modified":"2018-09-28T08:42:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T15:42:22","slug":"microsofts-quantum-development-kit-adds-a-chemical-simulation-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/microsofts-quantum-development-kit-adds-a-chemical-simulation-library","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s Quantum Development Kit adds a chemical simulation library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsofts-quantum-development-kit-adds-a-chemical-simulation-library.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During last September\u2019s Ignite conference, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/microsoft\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" data-entity=\"microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> heavily <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/09\/25\/microsoft-places-its-bets-on-quantum-computing\/\">emphasized<\/a> its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/quantum\/\">quantum computing efforts<\/a> and launched both its Q# programming language and development kits.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsofts-quantum-development-kit-adds-a-chemical-simulation-library2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"323\" height=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This year, the focus is on other things, and the announcements about quantum are few and far between (and our understanding is that Microsoft, unlike some of its competitors, doesn\u2019t have a working quantum computing prototype yet). It did, however, announce an addition to its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/quantum\/development-kit\">Quantum Development Kit<\/a> that brings a new chemical simulation library to tools for getting started with quantum computing.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/09\/24\/microsofts-quantum-development-kit-adds-a-chemical-simulation-library\/\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/09\/24\/microsofts-quantum-develop...n-library\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During last September\u2019s Ignite conference, Microsoft heavily emphasized its quantum computing efforts and launched both its Q# programming language and development kits. This year, the focus is on other things, and the announcements about quantum are few and far between (and our understanding is that Microsoft, unlike some of its competitors, doesn\u2019t have a working [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83127","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\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}