Toyota Uses Quantum Computer to Find Ideal Battery Material

Quantum computers are good at simulating physical and chemical processes, but not well

Researchers from Toyota and QunaSys decided to take advantage of this feature to find the most efficient materials for batteries. 

The work uses a 27-qubit quantum computer Q System One, which was developed by IBM together with the University of Tokyo, as well as other Japanese scientific organizations.

One of the participants in the project , QunaSys, has experience in the field of quantum computing, as well as in conducting simulations to find a material with certain properties. 

In this search, they use the density functional theory, in which a solid body is viewed as a system of a large number of electrons interacting in the same way, held together by a lattice of atomic nuclei.In other words, it is the electron density distribution that is described in the quantum Schrödinger equations.

A quantum computer works well with such formulas, unlikesupercomputers, the authors of the work note. 

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