Victor S. Batista is the John Gamble Kirkwood Professor of Chemistry at Yale University. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, he earned his Licenciado en Ciencias Químicas from the University of Buenos Aires in 1989 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Boston University in 1996. He completed postdoctoral research with Prof. William H. Miller (UC Berkeley) and Prof. Paul Brumer (University of Toronto) before joining Yale in 2001, where he rose to full professor by 2008.
Batista’s research focuses on theoretical and computational chemistry, including quantum dynamics, photochemical reaction mechanisms, and catalysis in natural and artificial photosynthetic systems. He has published over 440 peer-reviewed papers (Google Scholar h-index: 84) and developed methods in QM/MM simulations, nonlinear spectroscopy, and inverse design for energy-related applications.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Fulbright Fellow and Specialist, and a member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. His honors include awards from the NSF, ACS, Sloan Foundation, and Camille Dreyfus Foundation.
Presentation Title:
Simulating Chemistry on Bosonic Quantum Devices
Presentation Abstract:
Bosonic quantum devices offer a novel approach to realize quantum computations, where the quantum two-level system (qubit) is replaced with the quantum (an)harmonic oscillator (qumode) as the fundamental building block of the quantum simulator. The simulation of chemical structure and dynamics can then be achieved by representing or mapping the system Hamiltonians in terms of bosonic operators. In this talk, we review recent progress and future potential of using bosonic quantum devices for addressing a wide range of challenging chemical problems, including the calculation of molecular vibronic spectra, the simulation of adiabatic and nonadiabatic chemical dynamics, quantum machine learning applications for characterization of molecular systems, molecular docking of molecular graph theory problems, and the calculations of electronic structure.