Calculating the thermal rate constant with exponential speedup on a quantum computer
Daniel A. Lidar, Haobin Wang · Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics · 1999
It is shown how to formulate the ubiquitous quantum chemistry problem of calculating the thermal rate constant on a quantum computer. The resulting exact algorithm scales exponentially faster with the dimensionality of the system than all known ``classical'' algorithms for this problem.