Chemistry Seminar-FR

Event Details:

Dr. Matthias Degroote (University of Toronto) will speak on “Quantum Chemistry on Quantum Computers.”

Quantum computing opens an interesting new avenue to solve challenging problems in quantum chemistry. Directly manipulating quantum states of matter offers an efficiency that is impossible on a regular computer. Unfortunately, currently used methods are not directly translatable into quantum algorithms. Algorithm development that uses qubits, entanglement and coherence as resources is an active area of research. At the same time, current hardware performance is far from ideal. Dealing with noisy, imperfect operations brings along an extra level of difficulty. The question if and how quantum computing can be useful for quantum chemistry in the short-term is not easily answered.
 
I will introduce the most commonly used algorithms in quantum computation of quantum chemistry. I will focus on algorithms that have potential to be executed in the near-term and more particularly the hybrid quantum-classical algorithms developed in our group. In the end I will go over some of the more recent developments.

Building: Science Library

Room Number: 111