Quantum physics articles within Nature Chemistry

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• News & Views | 23 July 2015

  Interfering with interference

  Molecules can transfer charge between electron donors and acceptors, and can also transport charge when connected between metallic electrodes. These processes are assumed to show generally similar trends, however, a significant departure from this has now been observed in a series of biphenyl bridges.

  • Gemma C. Solomon

• News & Views | 01 February 2010

  Chemistry from photons

  The use of conventional computers to calculate molecular properties is hindered by the exponential increase in computational cost on increasing the size of the molecules studied. Using quantum computers could be the solution and the initial steps are now being taken.

  • Kenneth R. Brown

• News & Views | 01 February 2010

  Unearthing the unconventional

  Quantum tunnelling can at times be the cause of kinetic isotope effects, and in these cases conventional wisdom has been that molecules with isotopes of larger mass will react more slowly. New calculations, however, predict that sometimes the reverse should be true.

  • Barry K. Carpenter

• Article | 10 January 2010

  Towards quantum chemistry on a quantum computer

  Precise calculations of molecular properties from first-principles set great problems for large systems because their conventional computational cost increases exponentially with size. Quantum computing offers an alternative, and here the H₂ potential energy curve is calculated using the latest photonic quantum computer technology.

  • B. P. Lanyon
  • , J. D. Whitfield
  •  & A. G. White