Quantum chemistry

IBM quantum computer helped calculate how tritium binds to molten salt in fusion reactors

IBM quantum computer helped calculate how tritium binds to molten salt in fusion reactors

Researchers combined a Heron quantum processor with supercomputers to calculate the electronic structure of FLiBe clusters, a material being considered for tritium production in fusion reactors. The results show that the quantum calculation of parts of the problem was

The strange dance of ion and atom

A cold, strange and short molecule created in an experiment at the Weizmann Institute of Science following a collision between particles may shed light on chemical reactions at extremely low temperatures