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SUBMITTER: Reiher M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5530650 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Reiher Markus M Wiebe Nathan N Svore Krysta M KM Wecker Dave D Troyer Matthias M
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20170703 29
With rapid recent advances in quantum technology, we are close to the threshold of quantum devices whose computational powers can exceed those of classical supercomputers. Here, we show that a quantum computer can be used to elucidate reaction mechanisms in complex chemical systems, using the open problem of biological nitrogen fixation in nitrogenase as an example. We discuss how quantum computers can augment classical computer simulations used to probe these reaction mechanisms, to significant ...[more]