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Quantum Chemistry and Computing for the Curious

By : Alex Khan, Keeper L. Sharkey, Alain Chancé
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Quantum Chemistry and Computing for the Curious

By: Alex Khan, Keeper L. Sharkey, Alain Chancé

Overview of this book

Explore quantum chemical concepts and the postulates of quantum mechanics in a modern fashion, with the intent to see how chemistry and computing intertwine. Along the way you’ll relate these concepts to quantum information theory and computation. We build a framework of computational tools that lead you through traditional computational methods and straight to the forefront of exciting opportunities. These opportunities will rely on achieving next-generation accuracy by going further than the standard approximations such as beyond Born-Oppenheimer calculations. Discover how leveraging quantum chemistry and computing is a key enabler for overcoming major challenges in the broader chemical industry. The skills that you will learn can be utilized to solve new-age business needs that specifically hinge on quantum chemistry
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Chapter 8: References
9
Chapter 9:Glossary
Appendix B: Leveraging Jupyter Notebooks on the Cloud
Appendix C: Trademarks

Summary

In this chapter, we have shown how to formulate an electronic structure program and map it into a qubit Hamiltonian, which is the input to a hybrid classical-quantum algorithm that is used to find the lowest energy eigenvalue for a quantum system. This is the topic of Chapter 5, Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE).