Google Says It Just Ran The First-Ever Quantum Simulation of a Chemical Reaction – ScienceAlert

Of the many high expectations we have of quantum technology, one of the most exciting has to be the ability to simulate chemistry on an unprecedented level. Now we have our first glimpse of what that might look like.
Together with a team of collaborators, the Google AI Quantum team has used their 54 qubit quantum processor, Sycamore, to simulate changes in the configuration of a molecule called diazene.
As far as chemical reactions go, it’s one of the simplest ones we know of. Diazene is littl…

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