Google Debuts Software to Open Up Quantum Computers for Chemists
- Allows scientists easy way to run problems on quantum machine
- Move comes as race for useful quantum technology intesifies
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Google unveiled software aimed at making it easier for scientists to use the 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. It comes at a time when Google, IBM, Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp. and D-Wave Systems Inc. are all pushing to create quantum computers that can be used for commercial applications.