Re:Design of a silicon quantum computer chip
by philipkglass on Monday December 18, 2017 @03:45PM
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Based on what I read after I saw the protein folding suggestion, the idea is that with a Sufficiently Advanced quantum computer, you could use fully quantum calculations for small molecules and proteins alike. I'm puzzled about fluid dynamics too, though.
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Re:Design of a silicon quantum computer chip
by SolarNet on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @07:06PM
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All current fluid simulations are iterative and assume the fluid is a continuous indivisible mass (e.g. that it is not composed of atoms or molecules) that we then turn into discrete regions to compute the simulations. Even without common simplifying assumptions (to gain performance), this still has limits. Theoretically, simulating the regions with a quantum computer would allows us to remove these limits, and get the performance without making simplifying assumptions.
Re:Design of a silicon quantum computer chip
by abecedarius on Monday December 18, 2017 @07:37PM
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That sounds super-ambitious, but if humans can make LIGO, there must be a lot we can do.