Simulating quantum many-body systems is a key application for emerging quantum
processors. While analog quantum simulation has already demonstrated quantum …

The variational quantum eigensolver (or VQE), first developed by Peruzzo et al.(2014), has
received significant attention from the research community in recent years. It uses the …

Quantum computing aims at exploiting quantum phenomena to efficiently perform
computations that are unfeasible even for the most powerful classical supercomputers …

Interfacial reactions drive all elemental cycling on Earth and play pivotal roles in human
activities such as agriculture, water purification, energy production and storage …

BACKGROUND The past two decades have seen intense efforts aimed at building quantum
computing hardware with the potential to solve problems that are intractable on classical …

A universal fault-tolerant quantum computer that can efficiently solve problems such as
integer factorization and unstructured database search requires millions of qubits with low …

In this short review article, we aim to provide physicists not working within the quantum
computing community a hopefully easy-to-read introduction to the state of the art in the field …

Computational models are an essential tool for the design, characterization, and discovery
of novel materials. Computationally hard tasks in materials science stretch the limits of …

Quantum simulators are a promising technology on the spectrum of quantum devices from
specialized quantum experiments to universal quantum computers. These quantum devices …

Interacting many-electron problems pose some of the greatest computational challenges in
science, with essential applications across many fields. The solutions to these problems will …