Re:Commercial quantum computer identifies molecular candidat...
by nulltxt on Thursday August 03, 2023 @04:42PM
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H4 Seems to exist here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_hydrogen.
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Re:Commercial quantum computer identifies molecular candidat...
by powera on Thursday August 03, 2023 @04:44PM
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Nope. That is discussing "an atom of hydrogen with 1 proton and 3 neutrons". Which kind-of exists, but is too unstable to be meaningful.
The press release says it is a molecule of 4 hydrogen atoms. Neither the press release nor Wikipedia have any further thoughts as to how this is possible.
Re:Commercial quantum computer identifies molecular candidat...
by comicjk on Thursday August 03, 2023 @05:04PM
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I have long harbored an ambition of creating a Journal Of Implausible Chemistry, for the publication of research on hydrogen chains and other molecules cruelly disallowed by our impoverished reality.