Lecture: Quantum Computers & Simulators
The Copenhagen Bioscience Lectures is a series of open lectures for all researchers and other interested . Every 4 weeks, on Thursday evenings, you are invited for lectures on themes with a general interest for the Novo Nordisk Foundation Research Centers and science researchers in general. Often there will be a cross-disciplinary focus. Save the date and remember to register.
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TOPIC
Many research and industry applications are currently contemplating how to achieve an advantage from using quantum computers and quantum simulators. Through exploitation and control of quantum systems, quantum computing has the potential to solve complex problems exponentially faster, and with significantly less energy consumption, than with classical computing. The main premise is the expectation of a more accurate simulation of the chemical and physical processes of quantum nature in biological objects and new algorithms for prediction and processing of data. This is of specific interest for biological systems, where accurate modelling of quantum phenomena in a complex environment is necessary for an adequate representation, for example, of enzymatic catalytic reactions, light harvesting, and molecular dynamics, for instance protein folding or binding of a drug. Other proposed applications range from genomics classification and optimisation, materials science, logistics and optimization, encryption and information security, and artificial intelligence. The lectures will give an overview of the significant progress that has been made with the development of quantum simulators as well as noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers. It will also be discussed what problems a more generally applicable fault-tolerant quantum computer could help solving, which is the main mission of the recently announced NNF Quantum Computing Programme.
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