National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 2023 Quantum information

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2023) Advancing chemistry and quantum information science: an assessment of research opportunities at the interface of chemistry and quantum information science in the United States. National Academies Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.17226/26850

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2023) National Academies Press, Washington, DC

Abstract: Quantum information science (QIS) investigates how to exploit quantum behavior and its ability to encode, sense, process, and transmit information. This emerging field has developed ideas that may one day revolutionize such technological areas as communications, sensing, computing, navigation, and measurement. More recently, scientists and engineers have initiated new ideas that will significantly impact chemistry and biology. Quantum technologies follow a divergent set of operational rules beyond classical physics, which implies that these devices may surpass conventional capabilities. For example, developments in QIS could generate a faster and more secure internet, install financial systems backed by unique cryptographic codes and hardware, equip submarines with state-of-the-art surveillance systems, upgrade medical imaging machines, and generate other technologies to unparalleled levels compared to their classical counterparts. Overall, such advancements will impact U.S. economic prosperity, national security, medicine, and global research, development, and innovation competitiveness. This point becomes increasingly clear when one includes the involvement of chemistry approaches to QIS. The chemical industry as well as the development of new methods and materials could undergo a major shift in direction resulting in fruitful achievements if further developments of chemistry approaches to QIS were to be pursued. To achieve this long-term vision and sustain U.S. leadership in science and innovation, a robust QIS research enterprise needs to be established. While the physics community has enabled the field to move closer to creating QIS technologies by shedding light on the fundamental behavior of quantum properties, more details are necessary to bring these concepts into practical applications. The field of QIS is now at an inflection point, where the need for developing and measuring quantum molecular materials that are operational, practical, and efficient is paramount. Because chemistry is the study of manipulating properties and behaviors across different length scales, from subatomic to macromolecular levels, this discipline will certainly play a central role in guiding QIS toward future designs and measurements.

Chair of the Committee: Theodore G Goodson, III, University of Michigan - EBEC2024 Topic 1

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