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.
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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
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