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Google runs Hartree-Fock chemistry calculations on up to 12 qubits

Apr 8, 2020

Google researchers simulate hydrogen chains and diazene using superconducting qubits and error mitigation. The Hartree-Fock calculations benchmark hardware on chemistry tasks that remain tractable for classical computers.

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Testing chemistry circuits and mitigation on real hardware develops tools for future molecular simulations without establishing a computational advantage.

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