Re:Design of a silicon quantum computer chip
by j1vms on Monday December 18, 2017 @07:58PM
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"Nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it's a wonderful problem, because it doesn't look so easy." -- Richard Feynman
"Simulating Physics with Computers", International Journal of Theoretical Physics, volume 21, 1982, p. 467-488, at p. 486 (final words) [0]
If anything, fast quantum calculations would make an even bigger difference in materials science than in drug discovery. That's because druglike molecules have been studied a lot, so classical approximations (though limited) at least exist.