Welcome to the QFold-Thesis organization. This repository collection constitutes the software artifacts and documentation for our Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Thesis.

Our work focuses on the practical implementation, analysis, and extension of quantum algorithms for the Protein Folding Problem, building upon the foundational frameworks provided by Qiskit and recent academic publications.

quantum-protein-folding
The Core Simulation Engine An extensible framework for simulating peptide chains on quantum hardware using VQE. Based on and extending the Qiskit Community implementation. 🛠️ Key Capabilities: Hamiltonian Construction • Lattice Models (MJ/HP) • 3D Visualization • Custom Penalty Tuning

This project was developed by:

• Anna Sztukowska - (@sztvk)
• Stefan Furmański - (@stfen)
• Lucjan Gackowski - (@varrios)
• Gracjan Żukowski - (@gzukowski)

This implementation is heavily inspired by and extends the work of:

• Anton Robert, Panagiotis Kl. Barkoutsos, Stefan Woerner, Ivano Tavernelli "Resource-efficient quantum algorithm for protein folding." arXiv:1908.02163
• The Qiskit Community repository: quantum-protein-folding