Quantinuum, one of the world’s leading integrated quantum computing companies, has announced a global collaboration with JSR Corporation of Japan to explore the application of quantum computing methods in semiconductor research.
The partnership brings together JSR’s world-class materials scientists and quantum computing experts from Quantinuum in Japan, Europe, and the United States. The collaboration will employ the cutting-edge InQuanto software platform to investigate approaches for modeling semiconducting materials such as metal complexes and transition metal oxides utilizing quantum computers.
These materials are critical in microelectronics. It is hoped that new modeling methods based on quantum computers would produce precise predictions of their physical properties, which will speed up the identification of new candidate molecules and materials and pave the way for future microelectronic device paradigms.
One focus of the collaboration will be developing quantum algorithms and methods based on dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT). This approach could provide a more accurate understanding of the electronic properties of complex organic and inorganic materials in the real world, such as optical absorption and conductivity, which could pave the way for future progress in the silicon-based information age.
Quantinuum and JSR will use InQuanto to explore new methods to model these complex molecular systems and defect subsystems. The new methods discovered will be incorporated into InQuanto, and will become available for the use of other scientists and researchers using the software platform.
InQuanto, a new standalone platform, brings together the latest algorithms, approaches, and noise mitigation techniques used by molecular and materials scientists and researchers on quantum computers and emulators. It will provide JSR’s scientists and researchers with a better knowledge of the capabilities of quantum computers as they work towards quantum advantage in computational chemistry.
Quantinuum, a renowned leader in quantum computing, has active collaborations with industrial partners in automotive, chemicals, pharmaceutical, and energy. InQuanto is powered by Quantinuum’s TKET toolkit, which makes it simple for researchers to re-target algorithms from one device or simulator to another.
