Quantum Institute: Visitor Schedule

The Quantum Lunch is regularly held on Thursdays in the Theoretical Division Conference Room, TA-3, Building 123, Room 121.

The organizing committee includes Malcolm Boshier (P-21), Adolfo del Campo (T-4 & CNLS), Michael Di Rosa (C-PCS), Sebastian Deffner (T-4), Changhyun Ryu (P-21) , Nikolai Sinitsyn (T-4), Rolando Somma (T-4), Christopher Ticknor (T-1), and Wojciech Zurek (T-4).

For more information, or to nominate a speaker, contact Sebastian Deffner.

To add your name to the Quantum Lunch email list, contact Ellie Vigil.

Thursday September 25, 2014
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Speaker: David Poulin (Universite de Sherbrooke)

Technical Host: Wojciech Zurek

TOPIC: Simulating quantum chemistry on a quantum computer

Abstract
Simulating a molecule with about 100 electronic orbitals is far beyond today’s classical computers capabilities. However, this is a problem that could be solved by a quantum computers containing only 100 qubits or so. While this memory requirement is relatively modest, the time requirements for such simulations is excessively large. In this talk, I will present recent improvements of simulation techniques and analysis which considerably reduce the time resources of such simulations.