International group of researchers has achieved the world’s first multi-qubit demonstration of a quantum chemistry calculation performed on a system of trapped ions. The research, led by University of Sydney physicist Dr. Cornelius Hempel, explores a promising pathway for developing effective ways to model chemical bonds and reactions using quantum computers. The paper, published today in leading journal Physical Review X, was jointly written with Innsbruck, Professor Rainer Blatt and former Harvard professor Aln Aspuru-Guzik, who has since moved to the University of Toronto.”]
Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-07-world-first-quantum-simulation-chemical-bonds.html