Monday, April 11th, 2005
2:30pm - 3:30pm, in Healey LL-2 Presentation Room 2

Nicolas Anzalone

Tufts University

A Quantum Circuit for Modeling the Heat Equation

Abstract: Computer simulations of certain natural phenomena are computationally expensive on a classical computer. The movement of fluids is one example of a dynamical system we would like to simulate on a computer but whose intractability makes it impracticable for strongly turbulent flow. It is plausible that a quantum algorithm for heat diffusion might be generalized to the more complicated case of fluid dynamics. In this talk, I present a quantum circuit which implements a discrete model for the heat equation in one dimension.