Quantum Chemistry
14 reportsCoverage of Quantum Chemistry examines spectroscopic or computational evidence; reaction behavior; and applications and limits. For questions involving reaction behavior, the account uses spectroscopic data as the measured record and thermodynamic or kinetic measurements to expose uncertainty; the evidence is read with the caveat that idealized models may not capture solvent, impurities, or real operating conditions.
Quantum Utility Starts With Chemistry Not Qubit Counts
Matthias Troyer's assessment of quantum computing points to chemistry as the clearest near-term application while error correction, data movement, hardware architecture and end-to-end cost determine whether larger systems will become scientifically useful.
US and UK Back Eight Teams to Engineer Molecular Quantum States
A new $10 million joint program from the US National Science Foundation and UK Research and Innovation will support eight research teams working to control quantum coherence and entanglement in complex molecular systems.
Quantinuum and Aramco Test Trapped Ion Quantum Hardware for Energy Tasks
Quantinuum and Aramco have signed a non-binding agreement to evaluate trapped-ion quantum processors for simulating energy sector chemistry and optimization tasks using Quantinuum's QCCD hardware and software stack
Classiq Targets Taiwan's Quantum-Semiconductor Integration With Dual Partnerships
Classiq Technologies has signed agreements with Scientek Corporation and Kensho to distribute its quantum software in Taiwan, aiming to bridge quantum hardware and application development across the semiconductor and research sectors
Neutral-Atom Quantum Processors Simulate Protein Gelation Structures
Pasqal and True Nexus have encoded protein gelation structures on neutral-atom quantum processors, aiming to model dynamic protein aggregation beyond the reach of classical simulation and inform the design of functional food proteins
IonQ, NVIDIA, and qBraid Cut Quantum Simulation Errors by Over Half
A new collaboration between IonQ, NVIDIA, and qBraid demonstrates a 54% reduction in logical error rates for deep Trotterized quantum chemistry simulations using trapped-ion hardware and active mid-circuit error detection
IBM Qiskit Fermions Library Targets Structure-Preserving Quantum Compilation
IBM Quantum has released Qiskit Fermions 0.1.0, an open-source library designed to maintain physical symmetries and particle-number conservation during quantum circuit compilation for fermionic systems, with a focus on quantum chemistry and condensed matter simulation
200 Logical Qubit Quantum Emulation Benchmarked on Classical Hardware
Researchers have emulated quantum algorithms with over 200 logical qubits using the iQCC method on standard server hardware, benchmarking performance and accuracy for OLED materials design without relying on supercomputers
AI-Generated Quantum Circuits Tested on 98-Qubit Trapped-Ion Hardware
A collaboration between Quantinuum, NVIDIA, and Pfizer has demonstrated an AI-driven framework for generating quantum circuits, executing them on a 98-qubit trapped-ion processor to model pharmaceutical molecules
Quantum Algorithms Target Photodynamic Cancer Drug Design Limits
Xanadu Quantum Technologies and the University of Alberta are developing quantum algorithms to simulate light-activated molecules for photodynamic cancer therapy, aiming to overcome classical computational bottlenecks in drug discovery
D-Wave Receives NRC Grant to Develop Quantum Annealing Software
D-Wave Quantum Inc. has secured up to CAD $300,000 from Canada's National Research Council to engineer new graph-embedding algorithms and open-source tools for its quantum annealing hardware, targeting more complex commercial optimization tasks
Honda Invests in Quemix to Advance Quantum Algorithms for Materials
Honda has taken an equity stake in Quemix, a Tokyo-based quantum software startup, aiming to accelerate the use of quantum algorithms for next-generation battery materials and automotive applications
QC Ware Tests Hybrid Quantum-Classical Chemistry on IBM Heron Processor
QC Ware has demonstrated a hybrid quantum-classical workflow for molecular energy calculations, integrating its Promethium platform with IBM's 156-qubit Heron superconducting quantum processor to analyze a complex metalloenzyme system
ROQUO Hybrid Supercomputer Links Trapped-Ion Qubits and NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs
Japan's RIKEN Center for Computational Science has launched ROQUO, a hybrid quantum-classical supercomputer integrating Quantinuum's trapped-ion Reimei system with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, aiming to benchmark quantum circuit synthesis and quantum chemistry workloads