{"id":91746,"date":"2019-06-07T11:42:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T18:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/quantum-chemistry-on-quantum-computers"},"modified":"2019-06-07T11:42:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T18:42:36","slug":"quantum-chemistry-on-quantum-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/quantum-chemistry-on-quantum-computers","title":{"rendered":"Quantum chemistry on quantum computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-chemistry-on-quantum-computers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The special properties of quantum computers should make them ideal for accurately modelling chemical systems, Philip Ball discovers.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018If you want to make a simulation of nature,\u2019 the legendary physicist Richard Feynman advised in 1981, \u2018you\u2019d better make it quantum-mechanical.\u2019 By \u2018nature\u2019, Feynman meant \u2018stuff\u2019: the particles and atoms and molecules we\u2019re made from. His comment came in a talk published the following year, and is generally regarded as the founding text of quantum computing. It now looks even more prophetic than ever.<\/p>\n<p>For although we are constantly told that the unique selling point of quantum computers is their enormous speed compared with the classical devices we currently use \u2013 a speed-up that exploits the counterintuitive laws of quantum mechanics \u2013 it seems that the most immediate benefit will be the one Feynman identified in the first place: we\u2019ll be able to simulate nature better.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chemistryworld.com\/features\/quantum-chemistry-on-quantum-computers\/3007680.article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The special properties of quantum computers should make them ideal for accurately modelling chemical systems, Philip Ball discovers. \u2018If you want to make a simulation of nature,\u2019 the legendary physicist Richard Feynman advised in 1981, \u2018you\u2019d better make it quantum-mechanical.\u2019 By \u2018nature\u2019, Feynman meant \u2018stuff\u2019: the particles and atoms and molecules we\u2019re made from. His [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91746","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}