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LOCATION:Room 2188\, Mechanical Engineering Building
SUMMARY:Quantum simulation of degenerate plasmas\, Engineering Event\,
  Andrew Baczewski\, Sandia National Lab
DESCRIPTION:Accurate and efficient simulations of dense plasmas in con
 ditions that are difficult or impossible to create in a terrestrial la
 b are a promising application for quantum computers. I will start by t
 rying to convince you of this with some motivational problems in astro
 physics\, planetary science\, and inertial confinement fusion. Then I 
 will describe some of the quantum algorithms that we believe will be a
 ble to help solve these problems. It turns out that we expect the reso
 urce requirements for implementing these algorithms on instances beyon
 d the reach of classical HPC to be pretty daunting - thousands of logi
 cal qubits capable of surviving billions (if not trillions) of logical
  operations without failure. So I also hope to convince you that build
 ing quantum computers to this spec is at least plausible\, and perhaps
  even a good idea.<br>
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\nThis seminar is sponsored by the Grain
 ger Institute for Engineering in support of the seed grant “Quantum 
 Information Science for Fusion Energy”<br>
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URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=9402
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