One example of a small-scale but classically intractable computation that might be possible on a quantum machine is finding the energies of ground and excited states of small photoactive molecules, which could improve lithography techniques for semiconductor manufacturing and revolutionize drug design.
One example of a small-scale but classically intractable computation that might be possible on a quantum machine is finding the energies of ground and excited states of small photoactive molecules, which could improve lithography techniques for semiconductor manufacturing and revolutionize drug design. Another is simulating the singlet and triplet states of a single oxygen molecule, which is of interest to battery researchers.