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Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier (2017-2018 à 2018-2019).

OTI Lumionics is developing more flexible and energy efficient organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), whichx000D
are crucial for the further advancement of many imaging and light emitting technologies such as portablex000D
electronic devices, flat-screen TVs, and ultra-thin desk lamps. Computational search for better materials is atx000D
the heart of this development. New emerging technologies of quantum computing promise unprecedentedx000D
accuracy and efficiency in performing the necessary calculations. However, there are no general procedures inx000D
place to engage the quantum computer in these calculations. In other words, not only there is no routinely usedx000D
software for this task but also there is not even a general formulation of a computational problem that can bex000D
used for the quantum computer. The main aim of this proposal is to create a universal procedure where ax000D
molecular structure will be an input, and a computational problem formulated in terms clear for the quantumx000D
computer will be an output. This procedure will be used by OTI Lumionics for performing the computationalx000D
search on the 2000Q D-Wave quantum computer (D-Wave Systems, Vancouver BC). These developments willx000D
be able to remove the main bottleneck in the computational search process not only for OLEDs but in manyx000D
molecular design processes: pharmaceutical compounds, solar cell materials, compounds of portable batteries,x000D
better catalysts for various chemical reactions, to name a few. Building a general computer code that canx000D
involve the D-Wave quantum computer to solve this wide range of problems will provide a long-term potentialx000D
boost to many sectors of Canadian economy.