UChicago professors use experimental data from a quantum computer to verify the generalized Pauli exclusion principle

With the advent of open-access quantum computers, Chemistry Professors Smart and Mazziotti and Physics Professor Schuster, saw an opportunity to do a very unusual experiment to test some quantum principles. Their study, which appeared Jan. 31 in Nature Communications Physics, essentially hijacks a quantum computer to discover fundamental truths about the quantum behavior of electrons in molecules.