A review in Science this week, which appeared on Oct 2nd, outlines the main theoretical and experimental aspects of quantum simulation and emphasizes some of the challenges and promises of this fast-growing field.

whose group in 2002 pioneered a more limited quantum simulation technique by trapping ions.

Here, contributors describe their research in this rapidly- advancing field, with topics such as ab initio quantum simulation in solid state chemistry, theories and applications in molecular quantum similarity, enumerating molecules, variable selection, biomolecular applications of Poisson-Boltzmann methods, data sources and computational approaches for generating models of gene regulatory networks.