Simulating Quantum Materials with Digital Quantum Computers

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Quantum materials exhibit a wide array of exotic phenomena and practically useful properties.

• A better understanding of these materials can provide deeper insights into fundamental physics in the quantum realm as well as advance technology for entertainment, healthcare, and sustainability.
• The emergence of digital quantum computers (DQCs), which can efficiently perform quantum simulations that are otherwise intractable on classical computers, provides a promising path forward for testing and analyzing the remarkable, and often counter-intuitive, behavior of quantum materials.
• Equipped with these new tools, scientists from diverse domains are racing towards achieving physical quantum advantage (i.e., using a quantum computer to learn new physics with a computation that cannot feasibly be run on any classical computer).