Quantum Information and Quantum Computation for Chemistry: Challenges and Opportunities

化学系将于2016年11月14日至15日在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿举办这场题为“化学中的量子信息和量子计算：挑战与机遇”的研讨会。自1982年理查德·费曼的早期贡献以来，量子信息科学与技术已经成为科学努力中最具活力和前景的领域之一。获得新形式的密码学、通信和计算的可能性导致了新的智能框架，用于理解我们的物理现实以及理解不同任务的复杂性，例如量子系统的模拟。化学领域的核心是量子领域，它与量子信息科学和计算有几个接触点。量子信息处理器的物理实现有望受益于从表面科学、纳米控制和光谱学开始的与化学相关的进展。另一方面，对化学的理解得益于通过量子模拟器和成熟的量子计算机对化学系统进行可扩展、高效的量子模拟的前景。西北大学的Michael Wasielewski教授和哈佛大学的Alan Aspuru-Guzik教授正在组织一个研讨会，将致力于量子信息和量子计算主题的领先研究人员的代表性样本聚集在一起。通过一系列的讨论，研讨会参与者对化学在五到十年的时间范围内在量子信息科学和技术领域面临的挑战和机遇形成了深刻的看法。参与的研究人员是具有不同背景的理论家和实验家的混合体。这个研讨会的长期目标是在该学科的核心与量子信息和量子计算的新兴领域的界面上开发一个新的化学子领域。研讨会的成果将通过研讨会报告分发给科学界。

The Division of Chemistry is sponsoring this workshop entitled "Quantum Information and Quantum Computation for Chemistry: Challenges and Opportunities" to be held on November 14-15, 2016 in Arlington, Virginia. Since the early contributions by Richard Feynman in 1982, quantum information science and technology has become one of the most dynamic and promising fields of scientific endeavor. The possibility of accessing new forms of cryptography, communication, and computation has led to new intellectual frameworks for understanding our physical reality as well as to the understanding of the complexity of different tasks such as the simulation of quantum systems. The field of chemistry, with its core at the quantum realm has several points of contact with quantum information science and computation. The physical implementation of quantum information processors is poised to benefit from chemistry-related advances starting from surface science, nanoscale control and spectroscopy. The understanding of chemistry, on the other hand, benefits from the promise of scalable, efficient quantum simulation of chemical systems enabled by quantum simulators and full-blown quantum computers. Professors Michael Wasielewski (Northwestern University) and Alan Aspuru-Guzik (Harvard University) are organizing a workshop that brings together a representative sample of the leading researchers working on the topic of quantum information and quantum computing. Through a series of discussions, the workshop participants develop deep perspectives on the challenges and opportunities for Chemistry in the field of quantum information science and technology in a timescale of five to ten years. The participating researchers are a mixture of theoreticians and experimentalists with a variety of backgrounds. The long term goal of this workshop is to develop a new subfield of chemistry at the interface of the core of the discipline with the emerging fields of quantum information and quantum computation. The outcomes of the workshop will be disseminated to the scientific community via a workshop report.