[Aspuru-Guzik group list] ITAMP lunch seminar - Sarah Mostame, ITAMP (05/01)

Dear colleagues, this week we have Sarah Mostame, a new ITAMP-affiliated postdoc as speaker at our seminar. Kind regards, Richard and Swati ITAMP Topical Lunch Discussion Date: Friday, May 1st Time: 12:00-1:30 pm Pizza will be served. Location: B-106 @ Center for Astrophysics (60 Garden Street) Directions: after entering the lobby of the CfA, turn right to enter the hallway of the B building. In the hallway, turn right again, and B-106 is there. Speaker: Sarah Mostame, ITAMP Title: Analog and Digital Quantum Simulators Abstract: Problems associated with quantum many-body systems are notoriously difficult to solve even with modern digital computers. Feynman envisioned an approach to solve these problems by using one quantum system as a platform for simulating another, a technique that now is referred to as quantum simulation. There are two main approaches to quantum simulation: digital and analog. Digital quantum simulation exploits the universality of a quantum computer to carry out the simulation, whereas analog quantum simulation requires that one engineers a specific quantum system that generally is only applicable to a specific simulation or a small class of simulations. In this talk, I will briefly talk about analog quantum simulators and then will focus on the digital approach. --------------------------- Dr. Richard Schmidt Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (ITAMP) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics MS-14 60 Garden St. Cambridge, MA 02138 U.S.A. richard.schmidt(a)cfa.harvard.edu Tel. +1 (617) 496-7610 Fax +1 (617) 496-7668