Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️<p>Quantum device slows chemical process by 100 billion<br>Potential use in material science, drugs, solar energy harvesting<br><a href="https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2023/08/29/conical-intersection-simulation-slowed-by-quantum-computer-100-billion-times.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/new</span><span class="invisible">s/2023/08/29/conical-intersection-simulation-slowed-by-quantum-computer-100-billion-times.html</span></a><br>Discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37376998" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3</span><span class="invisible">7376998</span></a></p><p>* electronic states of molecules<br>* rapid, efficient relaxation during chemical dynamics<br>* nature: femtoseconds; model: milliseconds</p><p>Direct observation of geometric-phase interference in dynamics around a conical intersection<br><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-023-01300-3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s41557-023</span><span class="invisible">-01300-3</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MaterialsScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaterialsScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/QuantumDevice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QuantumDevice</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemistry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biophysics</span></a></p>