Mini Review: Synergizing Driven Quantum Dynamics, AI, and Quantum Computing for Next-Gen Materials Science

The design of next-gen materials has undergone remarkable progress in recent years, as evidenced by the emergence of automated platforms combining artificial intelligence (AI)-driven synthesis planning and robotics for execution. In this Mini-Review, we analyze how synergistic approaches that combine driven quantum dynamics, AI/machine learning, and quantum computing accelerate the discovery and design process of quantum materials with enhanced properties and novel functionalities. Building on the capabilities of each of the three methods, synergistic approaches can provide access to the materials' response to time-dependent fields, enable the rapid exploration of vast design spaces, and identify novel quantum phases and materials with optimal properties. We examine recent successes in next-gen materials science for quantum batteries, colloidal quantum dots solar cells, quantum phototransistors, rare-earth-free materials, and applications in quantum information processing. We conclude with a discussion of recent research efforts in AI-for-quantum computing and quantum machine learning for next-gen materials discovery.