Topic

Quantum chemistry simulation

Using quantum computers to model molecules and reactions, including nitrogen-fixing catalysts, that classical methods struggle to compute.

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Sandia scores the best quantum hardware 137,000 times short of breaking RSA-2048

The Sandia-led QUOPS benchmark rates a quantum computer by the largest useful circuit it can finish and how fast it finishes it. Across Google, IBM and Quantinuum machines the best score was 1,824, against a chemistry target of 250 million.

Publishers:newscientist.comphys.org

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