Quantum Colloquium – Prof. Garnet Chan
Wednesday, May 8, 2:00pm
Jefferson 250
Garnet Kin-Lic Chan, Bren Professor of Chemistry, Caltech
“Simulating the quantum world on a classical computer”
Dirac wrote that the laws that govern ordinary matter were known, but that the resulting
equations of quantum many-particle systems were too complicated to be soluble. I will
describe how, a century later, the situation has very much changed in the classical
simulation of molecules and materials. I will draw on examples from our group’s research
in the applied physics domain, namely recent work on the simulation of the ground-states
of high-temperature superconductors and the modeling of certain kinds of quantum
dynamics.
Guest presentation will begin promptly at 2:00 PM
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