Experiments with Quantum Computers

Technical piece.  We are starting to tease out how we might utilize quantum effects in computers.    We saw some examples we might use in combinatorial analytic problems, for example supply chain optimization.   Waiting to get a good look at such an example.

Scientists Use IBM Q to Tease Out Quantum Secrets 
UChicago News (IL)
Louise Lerner

Researchers at the University of Chicago (UChicago) used the open-access IBM Q quantum computer to experimentally verify elusive principles governing quantum molecular behavior. The researchers focused on the Pauli exclusion principle, which states that two electrons cannot occupy the same position in space simultaneously. A molecule's electrons often experience additional localization limits, known as the generalized Pauli constraints. The UChicago team created an array of algorithms that would ask IBM's Q Experience computer to randomly produce quantum states in three-electron systems, then measure the molecules' most likely locations. The results, the researchers said, provided strong experimental verification. UChicago's David Mazziotti said, "“The simplest generalized Pauli constraints were discovered theoretically on a classical computer at IBM in the early 1970s, so it is fitting that for the first time they would be experimentally verified on an IBM quantum computer.”   .... '