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Title: Spiers Memorial Lecture: Quantum chemistry, classical heuristics, and quantum advantage

Journal Article · · Faraday Discussions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D4FD00141A · OSTI ID:2440769
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  1. Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

We describe the problems of quantum chemistry, the intuition behind classical heuristic methods used to solve them, a conjectured form of the classical complexity of quantum chemistry problems, and the subsequent opportunities for quantum advantage.

Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
OSTI ID:
2440769
Journal Information:
Faraday Discussions, Journal Name: Faraday Discussions Vol. 254; ISSN 1359-6640; ISSN FDISE6
Publisher:
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English

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