Quantum Information and Quantum Computation for Chemistry: Challenges and Opportunities

化学学部主办了这个名为“量子信息和量子计算化学：挑战和机遇”的研讨会，将于2016年11月14日至15日在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿举行。自1982年理查德·费曼（Richard Feynman）的早期贡献以来，量子信息科学与技术已成为科学努力中最具活力和前景的领域之一。访问新形式的密码学、通信和计算的可能性已经导致了新的知识框架，用于理解我们的物理现实，以及理解不同任务的复杂性，如量子系统的模拟。以量子领域为核心的化学领域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将受益于从表面科学、纳米级控制和光谱学开始的化学相关进展。另一方面，对化学的理解受益于量子模拟器和成熟的量子计算机对化学系统进行可扩展、高效的量子模拟的承诺。Michael Wasielewski教授（西北大学）和Alan Aspuru-Guzik教授（哈佛大学）正在组织一个研讨会，汇集了研究量子信息和量子计算主题的主要研究人员的代表性样本。通过一系列的讨论，研讨会参与者对量子信息科学与技术领域的化学在五到十年的时间尺度上的挑战和机遇进行了深入的探讨。参与研究的研究人员是来自不同背景的理论家和实验家的混合体。本次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等新兴领域的界面上发展一个新的化学子领域。讲习班的成果将通过一份讲习班报告向科学界传播。

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.