Google has unveiled software aimed at making it easier for scientists to use quantum computers in a move designed to give a boost to the nascent industry. The software, which is open-source and free to use, could be used by chemists and material scientists to adapt algorithms and equations to run on quantum computers. Already, Google, IBM and D-Wave allow businesses to experiment with using not-very-powerful quantum computers for free through their cloud networks.



Called OpenFermion, the new software contains a library of algorithms for simulating how electrons interact, which is important for work in both chemistry and material science, on a quantum computer. Until now, these interactions could only be simulated on powerful conventional computers. Chemists would have had to team up with specialized quantum developers and done a lot of coding to be able to run the equations on a quantum machine.

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