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ANNUAL REVIEW OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY, VOL 62
Volume 62, Issue -, Pages 185-207Publisher
ANNUAL REVIEWS
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-032210-103512
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quantum computation; quantum algorithms; chemical dynamics; electronic structure
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The difficulty of simulating quantum systems, well known to quantum chemists, prompted the idea of quantum computation. One can avoid the steep scaling associated with the exact simulation of increasingly large quantum systems on conventional computers, by mapping the quantum system to another, more controllable one. In this review, we discuss to what extent the ideas in quantum computation, now a well-established field, have been applied to chemical problems. We describe algorithms that achieve significant advantages for the electronic-structure problem, the simulation of chemical dynamics, protein folding, and other tasks. Although theory is still ahead of experiment, we outline recent advances that have led to the first chemical calculations on small quantum information processors.
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