Using a quantum device, researchers have observed, for the first time, a molecular process called conical intersection that is important in reactions such as photosynthesis.
For the first time, scientists have directly observed a molecular dance that's crucial to basic chemical reactions such as photosynthesis. And they've done it by using a quantum computer to slow down a chemical reaction by a mind-boggling 100 billion times.
Because these reactions happen so quickly, though, scientists had never observed a conical intersection in action. To do so, researchers at the University of Sydney used a device called a trapped-ion quantum computer, which locks quantum particles into electrical fields and manipulates them with lasers."In nature, the whole process is over within femtoseconds," Vanessa Olaya Agudelo, a doctoral student in chemistry who co-authored the new research, said in a statement.
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