Calculating the thermal rate constant with exponential speedup on a quantum computer

Daniel A. Lidar and Haobin Wang
Phys. Rev. E 59, 2429 – Published 1 February 1999
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Abstract

It is shown how to formulate the ubiquitous quantum chemistry problem of calculating the thermal rate constant on a quantum computer. The resulting exact algorithm scales exponentially faster with the dimensionality of the system than all known “classical” algorithms for this problem.

  • Received 14 July 1998

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.59.2429

©1999 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Daniel A. Lidar* and Haobin Wang

  • Department of Chemistry, The University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720

  • *Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Electronic address: dani@holmium.cchem.berkeley.edu
  • Electronic address: whb@neon.cchem.berkeley.edu

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Vol. 59, Iss. 2 — February 1999

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