Google’s new software to make chemists’ use easy

Bloomberg

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.
Already, Google, IBM and D-Wave allow businesses to experiment with using not-very-powerful quantum computers for free through their cloud networks.
Quantum computers could, in theory, be orders of magnitude more powerful than existing conventional supercomputers. Many believe they will enable people to do things once considered impossible — from simulating chemical catalysts and modeling highly-complex systems, like climate, to breaking almost all public key encryption. But so far, the quantum machines these companies have built are not powerful or accurate enough to outperform conventional computers at most tasks.