This InstituteQ Colloquium features University of Southern California Professor Rosa Di Felice. The title of her talk is “Quantum simulations of fermionic and spin Hamiltonians.”
Event details
When: 12:30-13:30, 14.6.2024
Where: Ekonominaukio 1, Hall V001, Otaniemi
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From Rosa: What will your talk discuss?
Despite huge efforts and significant progress in algorithmic development and error reduction techniques, there is not yet evidence of quantum performance/advantage in solving useful computational problems in chemistry and materials science. But why should we use quantum computers?
In this presentation, I will attempt conceptual answers to this question and show preliminary data towards these answers. More specifically, I will:
- Identify the bottlenecks of classical algorithms for the solution of the Schrödinger equation of molecules and materials from first principles, which is where quantum algorithms can be grafted; in this context, I will focus on examples of molecules with strong electronic correlations and show the current level of feasibility of quantum calculations on a prototype system;
- Design a multi-disciplinary protocol for the computational solution of groundbreaking applications, which goes from the identification of domain-relevant applications, to the distillation of mathematical problems, to the formulation of quantum algorithms and implementation in quantum software/hardware; in this context, I will use the electron transfer problem as an example.
