title: Simulation of chemical isomerization reaction dynamics on a NMR quantum simulator.
abstract: Quantum simulation can beat current classical computers with minimally a few tens of qubits. Here we report an experimental demonstration that a small nuclear-magnetic-resonance quantum simulator is already able to simulate the dynamics of a prototype laser-driven isomerization reaction using engineered quantum control pulses. The experimental results agree well with classical simulations. We conclude that the quantum simulation of chemical reaction dynamics not computable on current classical computers is feasible in the near future.
authors.affiliation: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China.
authors.forename: Dawei
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Nanyang
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Ruixue
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Hongwei
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Jiangbin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gong
authors.forename: Xinhua
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.forename: Jiangfeng
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Du