Garnet Chan reflects on recent progress using classical heuristics in computational quantum chemistry—and what it means for quantum computing. The lessons he draws can help to steer both classical and quantum approaches in scientifically productive directions.
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Recently, my coworkers and I put out a preprint “Classical solution of the FeMo-cofactor model to chemical accuracy and its implications’’ (Zhai et al. 2026). It is a bit unusual to write comm…