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Calculating the Thermal Rate Constant with Exponential Speed-Up on a Quantum Computer

Daniel A. Lidar, Haobin Wang

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/9807009

Abstract

It is shown how to formulate the ubiquitous quantum chemistry problem of calculating the thermal rate constant on a quantum computer. The resulting exact algorithm scales exponentially faster with the dimensionality of the system than all known ``classical'' algorithms for this problem.

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