Industry adopts quantum computing, qubit by qubit

An image showing IonQ’s quantum computer entangles trapped ions

Source: © Kai Hudek and Emily Edwards/IonQ

Companies looking to solve complex chemistry problems are among early adopters of quantum technology

While today’s quantum computers barely match the molecular modelling power of a smartphone, advances in hardware - and the specialist algorithms required to take advantage of quantum computing’s unique advantages - are coming thick and fast. Given their inherent quantum nature, chemistry problems are perhaps an obvious application, even if