“On Wednesday, Dr. Devoret and his colleagues at a Google lab near Santa
Barbara, Calif., said their quantum computer had successfully run a new
algorithm capable of accelerating advances in drug discovery, the design
of new building materials and other fields. Leveraging the
counterintuitive powers of quantum mechanics, Google’s machine ran this
algorithm 13,000 times […]
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#^Google’s Quantum Computer Makes a Big Technical Leap“On Wednesday, Dr. Devoret and his colleagues at a Google lab near Santa Barbara, Calif., said their quantum computer had successfully run a new algorithm capable of accelerating advances in drug discovery, the design of new building materials and other fields.
Leveraging the counterintuitive powers of quantum mechanics, Google’s machine ran this algorithm 13,000 times as fast as a top supercomputer executing similar code in the realm of classical physics, according to a paper written by the Google researchers in the scientific journal Nature…
In another paper published on Wednesday on the research site arXiv, the company showed that its algorithm could help improve what is called nuclear magnetic resonance, or N.M.R., which is a technique used to understand the structure of tiny molecules and how they interact with one another.
N.M.R. is a vital part of effort to develop new medicines for fighting disease and new materials for building everything from cars to buildings. It can help understand Alzheimer’s disease or drive the creation of entirely new metals, said Ashok Ajoy, an assistant professor of chemistry at Berkeley who specializes in N.M.R. and worked with Google’s researchers on the new paper.”
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