IBM, Oak Ridge and Cleveland Clinic Unveil Quantum-Powered Novel Fusion Energy Research
The team calculated nine FLiBe configurations, a first for quantum computers, to better model tritium binding for fusion fuel.
- On Monday, IBM, ORNL, and Cleveland Clinic calculated nine molecular configurations of FLiBe using quantum-centric supercomputing, marking the first known instance of such computations on quantum computers.
- This research addresses the Tritium Challenge, a critical bottleneck for fusion energy production that the United States Department of Energy's Genesis Mission targets across 17 national laboratories.
- Corresponding author Kenneth Merz, PhD, at Cleveland Clinic stated, "This work builds on our advances in simulating complex biological systems at scale, including proteins spanning 12,635 atoms and extends those techniques into materials science to explore fusion-relevant systems with greater accuracy and efficiency."
- By integrating CPUs, GPUs, and QPUs, researchers determine electronic structures and atomic behavior more precisely, identifying properties that remain hidden when using classical supercomputers or experimentation alone.
- The ongoing collaboration aims to reduce data transfer times between quantum and classical resources while scaling molecular simulations; eventually, the team hopes the fusion energy ecosystem will utilize this workflow to design and verify new materials.
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Oak Ridge National Lab, Cleveland Clinic, and IBM Achieve First-Known Computations of Fusion Materials on a Quantum Computer
/PRNewswire/ -- A team of scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Cleveland Clinic, and IBM (NYSE: IBM), have calculated nine molecular...
IBM, Cleveland Clinic in quantum computing world first
A team of scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory at Cleveland Clinic and IBM have calculated nine molecular configurations of a promising material to produce fuel for fusion energy – the first-known instance of such computations on quantum computers. Such calculations, demonstrated in a new paper published on arXiv, are computationally challenging for classical computers to scale when working alone. They are a fundamental step towards opt…
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