Tag: Quantum Simulation
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Novel Batteries
Owner Status Phase 0 – Idea Quantum Approach Quantum Machine Learning SDGs Impact/context The need to access reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all continues to grow globally. Enhancing the performance of batteries can significantly contribute to this challenge by making energy storage more efficient, scalable, and less costly. Better battery technologies are critical for…
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Carbon Capture and Catalysis
Owner Status Phase 0 – Idea Quantum Approach Quantum Simulation SDGs Impact/context Catalysis plays a crucial role in industrial processes, including those that convert greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide into useful products such as methanol. By improving the accuracy of energy measurements for catalytic reactions, these processes could be optimized towards more viable and more…
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Fusion
Owner Status Phase 0 – Idea Quantum Approach Quantum Simulation SDGs Impact/context Accurate calculation of stopping power is critical for modeling inertial fusion, a process that could lead to advancements in clean and limitless energy if successfully harnessed and scaled. Enhancing these calculations increases the feasibility and safety of fusion experiments, contributing to the development…
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Quanta-Bind
Owner Quantum Approach Quantum Simulation SDGs Contributors qBraid University of Chicago Origins of Contributors How quantum could help The role of the intrinsically disordered Amyloid Beta protein in Alzheimer’s disease, and its precise interaction with transition metal ions remains poorly understood. Traditional computational methods have struggled with this problem due to it being a classically…
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Accelerating Drug Discovery Using Programmable Quantum Simulation
Owner Quantum Simulation Quantum Approach SDGs Contributors Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology QuEra Computing Inc. Origins of Contributors How quantum could help Quantum computing can be used to address these challenges using tailored solutions optimized specifically for quantum simulators based on neutral atom arrays. In early experiments on exotic non-Abelian spin liquid states and…
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Quantum computing for covalent inhibitors in drug discovery
Owner Quantum Approach Quantum Simulation SDGs Contributors University of Nottingham Phasecraft QuEra Computing Inc. Origins of Contributors How quantum could help Myotonic dystrophy is a genetic condition that causes progressive muscle weakness and wasting. It is the most frequent form of muscular dystrophy in adults worldwide, with an estimated 6,500 people affected in the UK.…
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Quantum Computing for Photon-Drug Interactions in Cancer Prevention and Treatment
Owner Quantum Approach Quantum Simulation SDGs Contributors lgorithmiq Cleveland Clinic IBM Origins of Contributors How quantum could help Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a promising cancer treatment that uses light-activated photosensitisers, but designing new drugs for this requires modeling complex excited-state processes, which is a known computationally intensive task and which classical computing falls short of.…
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Molecular Recognition from Quantum Computing
Owner Quantum Approach Quantum Simulation SDGs Contributors University of Copenhagen Massachusetts Institute of Technology ETH Zurich Novo Norddisk A/S Origins of Contributors How quantum could help Accurately calculating molecular interactions is essential for drug discovery but remains a significant computational challenge, especially at the interaction seam where drug and target molecules meet. FreeQuantum is a…
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Quantum Computing for hydrolysis reactions in protein environments
Owner Quantum Approach Quantum Simulation SDGs Contributors Stanford University Virginia Tech Brown University University of Colorado Boulder Michigan State University Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Azulene Labs NASA University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign RIACS New York University Origins of Contributors How quantum could help ATP and GTP are main metabolic reactions that drive cellular function, where metabolic…
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Protein Solvation Pipeline
Owner Quantum Simulation Quantum Approach SDGs Contributors Pasqal Qubit Pharamceuticals Unitary Foundation Origins of Contributors How quantum could help Predicting hydration sites within buried protein pockets is a complex but essential task for accurate simulations in structure-based drug discovery. Specifically, water molecules can significantly influence how a target protein interacts with a ligand, and inadequate…