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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 2: Focus Session: Recent Developments in Computational Many Body Physics (joint session TT/DY)

DY 2.4: Invited Talk

Monday, March 12, 2018, 11:15–11:45, H 0104

Digital Quantum Simulation — •Bela Bauer — Station Q, Microsoft Research, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6105, USA

Recent improvements in the control of quantum systems make it appear feasible to build a quantum computer within a decade. One of the most promising applications for a quantum computer is the simulation of quantum systems that have thus far eluded numerical simulation on conventional supercomputers. In this talk, I will review the relevant models of quantum computation and survey some potential applications for a small quantum computer. I will then focus on the particular case of simulating complex materials. We show that this important and challenging problem can be tackled using a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm that incorporates the power of a small quantum computer into a framework of classical embedding algorithms.