Google Spotlights Quantum Computing Breakthroughs for Medicine, Batteries, and Clean Energy

Details

• To mark World Quantum Day 2025, Google detailed three targeted real-world applications for quantum computing, emphasizing advancements that coincide with a century of quantum mechanics.
• Google is partnering with Boehringer Ingelheim on pharmaceuticals, BASF on advanced battery materials, and Sandia National Laboratories on fusion energy research.
• Key efforts include quantum simulations of Cytochrome P450 enzymes to improve drug metabolism understanding, modeling battery materials like Lithium Nickel Oxide for better performance, and simulating plasma dynamics within fusion reactors.
• These initiatives build on Google’s previous achievement of quantum supremacy in optimization tasks, highlighting progression into more practical, industry-dependent problems.
• Google continues to prioritize breakthroughs in error correction, qubit stability, and scalable quantum architecture as it pushes toward practical quantum computing at industry scale.

Impact

Google’s sector-driven quantum collaborations point to a more specialized approach than IBM’s broader quantum-HPC integration. As both companies race toward practical quantum solutions, success in real-world medical and energy problems could position Google at the forefront of industry-relevant innovation. With competitive milestones on the horizon, confidence in quantum’s transformative potential within pharma, materials science, and energy is quickly growing.