Google has been doing some interesting stuff already, like representing models of the hydrogen H2 molecule: > While the energies of molecular hydrogen can be c

Google has been doing some interesting stuff already, like representing models of the hydrogen H2 molecule: > While the energies of molecular hydrogen can be computed classically (albeit inefficiently), as one scales up quantum hardware it becomes possible to simulate even larger chemical systems, including classically intractable ones. For instance, with only about a hundred reliable quantum bits one could model the process by which bacteria produce fertilizer at room temperature. Elucidating this mechanism is a famous open problem in chemistry because the way humans produce fertilizer is extremely inefficient and consumes 1-2% of the world's energy annually. Such calculations could also assist with breakthroughs in fundamental science, for instance, in the understanding of high temperature superconductivity. https://research.googleblog.com/2016/07/towards-exact-quantum-description-of.html https://research.googleblog.com/2016/07/towards-exact-quantu...