QC Ware and IonQ Demonstrate Hybrid Quantum Chemistry Workflow for Drug Discovery

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QC Ware and IonQ demonstrated a hybrid quantum-classical chemistry workflow that calculated electrostatic interaction energy for a cytochrome P450nor model within 0.5 kcal/mol of classical benchmarks.

The workflow combined GPU-accelerated preprocessing through QC Ware’s Promethium platform with quantum measurements on IonQ’s Forte trapped-ion system through Amazon Braket.

The demonstration used an eight-qubit active-space model and is intended to assess how hybrid quantum chemistry workflows could support drug discovery and other molecular research.

PRESS RELEASE – QC Ware today announced a technology demonstration of a hybrid quantum-classical chemistry workflow using its Promethium® platform and IonQ‘s Forte trapped-ion quantum computer via Amazon Braket.