From transistor to trapped-ion computers for quantum chemistry

Understand

Over the last few decades, quantum chemistry has progressed through the development of computational methods based on modern digital computers.

• However, these methods can hardly fulfill the exponentially-growing resource requirements when applied to large quantum systems.
• As pointed out by Feynman, this restriction is intrinsic to all computational models based on classical physics.
• Recently, the rapid advancement of trapped-ion technologies has opened new possibilities for quantum control and quantum simulations.