Proceedings of the Quantum Computation for Physical Modeling Workshop Held in North Falmouth, Massachusetts on October 18-19, 2000

Abstract

A practical and efficient way to use the power of quantum mechanics (quantum parallelism due to the superposition and entanglement of states) could enormously speed up numerical simulations of interest to computational physicists. The diffusion equation the nonlinear Burgers equations, the turbulent Navier-Stokes equations, and the many-body Schroedinger equation could all be solved much more rapidly if efficient quantum algorithms could be implemented for their solution. The presentations at the conference that are published here review the progress toward these goals.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA468878

Entities

People

  • Bruce Boghosian
  • Jeffrey Yepez

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boltzmann Equation
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Crystal Lattices
  • Difference Equations
  • Differential Equations
  • Dirac Equation
  • Information Processing
  • Parallel Computing
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Physical Theories
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Quantum Computing
  • Quantum Information
  • Quantum Information Science
  • Quantum Mechanics
  • Quantum Properties

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

Technology Areas

  • Quantum Computing