Getting Quantum-Ready for Ongoing Search for Life in Space

…Zapata and the University of Hull developed new techniques to extrapolate meaningful data from noisy quantum devices and used it to calculate the ro-vibrational spectrum of hydrogen to obtain results that are comparable with the state-of-the-art classical simulations, as well as the experimental results…

…The results obtained with these new quantum techniques can already be used to detect molecular hydrogen in space…

…[W]hen more powerful and fault-tolerant quantum computers are available, the team of scientists at the University of Hull will be able to greatly increase the range of their exploration, the complexity and number of molecules that they can search for, and the speed with which they analyze their findings – as they search for life beyond planet Earth…

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