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Quantum chemical calculations have attracted much attention as a practical application of quantum computing. Quantum computers can prepare superpositions of electronic states with various numbers of electrons on qubits. This special feature…
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Simulations of chemical dynamics are a powerful means for understanding chemistry. However, classical computers struggle to simulate many chemical processes, especially non-adiabatic ones, where the Born-Oppenheimer approximation breaks…
The computation of molecular excitation energies is essential for predicting photo-induced reactions of chemical and technological interest. While the classical computing resources needed for this task scale poorly, quantum algorithms…
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