Thomas Iadecola
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

Simulating Quantum Dynamics at the Dawn of Quantum Computing 

Abstract: 

Quantum computers offer a new paradigm for computation with the capacity to efficiently solve problems for which no efficient classical solution is known. One of the most promising near-term applications of quantum computers is the simulation of quantum many-body systems, a task with implications ranging from materials to agricultural science. A crucial obstacle in the way of such simulations at present is the accumulation of errors in the execution of quantum gates, which are the building blocks of quantum computations. In this colloquium, I will describe recent simulations of quantum dynamics on IBM quantum computers and discuss several strategies that can be used to mitigate or circumvent such errors.