Since its founding in 2020, the Quantum Systems Accelerator (QSA) has advanced the science and technologies required to bridge the gap between today’s NISQ (Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum) information systems and those that will be fully fault-tolerant to facilitate impactful scientific discovery. As a U.S. National Quantum Information Science Research Center funded by the Department of Energy Office of Science, QSA has developed algorithms and applications constructed explicitly for the current near-term, imperfect quantum systems to advance fundamental research across various fields such as chemical science.

Engineering researchers at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have successfully developed a quantum microprocessor chip for molecular spectroscopy simulation of actual large-structured and complex molecules, a world-first achievement. Capturing these quantum effects accurately requires meticulously developed simulations that account for quantum superposition and entanglement, which are computationally intensive to model classically.

Jun 3, 2024, A new algorithm developed at the University of Chicago, drawing inspiration from a famous experiment in ancient Alexandria, could help quantum computers more efficiently simulate molecular systems with high accuracy.

NVIDIA today launched a cloud service that allows researchers and developers to push the boundaries of quantum computing exploration in key scientific domains, including chemistry, biology and materials science.