Oak Ridge National Lab, Cleveland Clinic, and IBM Achieve First-Known Computations of Fusion Materials on a Quantum Computer

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    "title": "Oak Ridge National Lab, Cleveland Clinic, and IBM Achieve First-Known Computations of Fusion Materials on a Quantum Computer",
    "excerpt": "Initial results lay the groundwork for key objective of the United States Genesis Mission Quantum-centric supercomputing algorithm takes aim at tritium extraction – a bottleneck to abundant energy and a long-standing challenge for classical computers working alone YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. , July 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- A team of scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Cleveland Clinic, and IBM (NYSE: IBM ), have calculated nine molecular configurations of a promising material to produce fuel for fusion energy – the first-known instance of such computations on quantum computers. Such calculations, demonstrated in a new paper published on arXiv , are computationally challenging for classical computers to scale when working alone. They are a fundamental step towards optimizing the production and extraction of tritium – an extremely rare material in nature that is necessary to produce fusion energy with most of the proposed machines. Ensuring adequate supplies of tritium has long been a barrier to realizing the promise of clean and abundant energy from fusion power plants, and solving this issue is a key objective of the United States Department of Energy's (DOE) Genesis Mission. Quantum computers are well-suited to compute the atomic-level chemistry of a liquid salt that contains fluorine, lithium, and beryllium (FLiBe), one of the leading candidate materials for...",
    "summary": "Cleveland Clinic, in collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory and IBM, calculated nine molecular configurations of a fusion energy material, marking the first known use of quantum computers for such computations.",
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