Prospects of quantum computing for molecular sciences

Abstract Molecular science is governed by the dynamics of electrons and atomic nuclei, their interactions with electromagnetic fields. A faithful physicochemical understanding these processes crucial for design synthesis chemicals materials value our society economy. Although some problems in this field can be adequately addressed classical mechanics, many demand an explicit quantum mechanical description. Such require a representation wave functions that grows exponentially system size therefore should naturally benefit from computation on number logical qubits scales only linearly size. In perspective, we elaborate potential benefits computing molecular sciences, i.e., physics, chemistry, biochemistry, science.