{"id":94155,"date":"2019-07-26T13:26:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T20:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/virginia-tech-researchers-lead-breakthrough-in-quantum-computing"},"modified":"2019-07-26T13:26:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T20:26:02","slug":"virginia-tech-researchers-lead-breakthrough-in-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/virginia-tech-researchers-lead-breakthrough-in-quantum-computing","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Tech researchers lead breakthrough in quantum computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/virginia-tech-researchers-lead-breakthrough-in-quantum-computing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Abstract:<\/b> The large, error-correcting quantum computers envisioned today could be decades away, yet experts are vigorously trying to come up with ways to use existing and near-term quantum processors to solve useful problems despite limitations due to errors or \u201cnoise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A key envisioned use is simulating molecular properties. In the long run, this can lead to advances in materials improvement and drug discovery. But not with noisy calculations confusing the results.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a team of Virginia Tech chemistry and physics researchers have advanced quantum simulation by devising an algorithm that can more efficiently calculate the properties of molecules on a noisy quantum computer. Virginia Tech College of Science faculty members Ed Barnes, Sophia Economou, and Nick Mayhall recently published a paper in Nature Communications detailing the advancement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: The large, error-correcting quantum computers envisioned today could be decades away, yet experts are vigorously trying to come up with ways to use existing and near-term quantum processors to solve useful problems despite limitations due to errors or \u201cnoise.\u201d A key envisioned use is simulating molecular properties. In the long run, this can lead [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,41,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94155","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=94155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}