Dear colleagues,
Many apologies for the late advertising. Today our dear leader will be
giving the Theochem seminar at MIT. I hope many of you can make it.
Best wishes,
-Martin
*"A decade of quantum computing for quantum chemistry"*
*Room 4-163, MIT, Today @4.00-6.00 PM*
Alan Aspuru-Guzik
Professor
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
The last time I spoke about quantum computing and chemistry to a
theoretical chemistry audience in the Boston area was at this very same
seminar back in 2006 or 2007. In this seminar, I will give an update on
what has happened in the last 10 years since the original full
configuration interaction quantum chemistry proposal (Aspuru-Guzik, et al.,
Science, 2005). I will give a 2-hour talk (with more details than usual) of
why large-enough quantum computers will be relevant, perhaps game-changing
for chemistry. I will discuss several ways of solving the electronic
structure problem in quantum computers, and also their relevant
experimental realizations, either proposed or actually carried out in small
quantum devices. An important point relevant to these, is their scaling and
potential for realization in the near future assuming quantum computers
continue to develop rapidly. I will discuss this interesting aspect. I
will also briefly discuss applications in optimization problems (e.g.
folding proteins) and quantum dynamics. If time permits, I will discuss the
use of our recent proposed Boson Sampling experimental setup to simulate
molecular vibrionic spectra.
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