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Potential Applications of Quantum Computing at Los Alamos National Laboratory, v0.3.0

Since the scientific revolution in the 16th and 17th centuries, the process of scientific discovery has followed an iterative feedback process of observation, hypothesis development and testing with physical experiments, which is widely referred to as the scientific method. This process remained largely unchanged until the middle of the 20th century, when the emergence of digital computers empowered scientist to build and inspect detailed simulations of physical phenomena. Over the last century, computational tools have transformed modern approaches to scientific discovery by enabling fast and affordable hypothesis testing before physical experiments are conducted, shown in Figure 1-1. Some notable examples include: global climate forecasts to understand how the environment may change over decades [130]; modeling the behavior of plasma to design fusion reactors [59]; and understanding the behavior of molecules in biological processes [161, 223].

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