ITAMP Topical Lunch Discussion
Date: Friday, May 1st
Time: 12:00-1:30 pmPizza 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.