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In this study, we utilized the quantum flow (QFlow) method to perform quantum simulations of correlated systems. The QFlow approach allows for sampling large sub-spaces of the Hilbert space by solving coupled variational problems in reduced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-17 Karol Kowalski , Nicholas P. Bauman

A novel semi-Lagrangian method is introduced to solve numerically the Euler equation for ideal incompressible flow in arbitrary space dimension. It exploits the time-analyticity of fluid particle trajectories and requires, in principle,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-20 O. Podvigina , V. Zheligovsky , U. Frisch

In this work, we investigate the capability of known quantum-computing algorithms for fault-tolerant quantum computing to simulate the laser-driven electron dynamics in small molecules such as lithium hydride. These computations are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 Fabian Langkabel , Annika Bande

Obtaining reliable numerical simulations of turbulent fluids is a challenging problem in computational fluid mechanics. The Large Eddy Simulations (LES) models are efficient tools to approximate turbulent fluids and an important step in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Luigi C. Berselli , Stefano Spirito

It is imperative that useful quantum computers be very difficult to simulate classically; otherwise classical computers could be used for the applications envisioned for the quantum ones. Perfect quantum computers are unarguably…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 Yiqing Zhou , E. Miles Stoudenmire , Xavier Waintal

With quantum computers of significant size now on the horizon, we should understand how to best exploit their initially limited abilities. To this end, we aim to identify a practical problem that is beyond the reach of current classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Andrew M. Childs , Dmitri Maslov , Yunseong Nam , Neil J. Ross , Yuan Su

Interfaces between two fluids are ubiquitous and of special importance for industrial applications, e.g., stabilisation of emulsions. The dynamics of fluid-fluid interfaces is difficult to study because these interfaces are usually…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-20 Timm Krüger , Stefan Frijters , Florian Günther , Badr Kaoui , Jens Harting

Can every physical system simulate any Turing machine? This is a classical problem which is intimately connected with the undecidability of certain physical phenomena. Concerning fluid flows, Moore asked in [15] if hydrodynamics is capable…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Robert Cardona , Eva Miranda , Daniel Peralta-Salas , Francisco Presas

In a recent preprint [1] (arXiv:2503.05693), Tindall et al. presented impressive classical simulations of quantum dynamics using tensor networks. Their methods represent a significant improvement in the classical state of the art, and in…

Simulating the dynamics and the non-equilibrium steady state of an open quantum system are hard computational tasks on conventional computers. For the simulation of the time evolution, several efficient quantum algorithms have recently been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Nathan Ramusat , Vincenzo Savona

We present a further theoretical extension to the kinetic theory based formulation of the lattice Boltzmann method of Shan et al (2006). In addition to the higher order projection of the equilibrium distribution function and a sufficiently…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Raoyang Zhang , Xiaowen Shan , Hudong Chen

Rotating turbulence is ubiquitous in nature. Previous works suggest that such turbulence could be described as an ensemble of interacting inertial waves across a wide range of length scales. For turbulence in macroscopic quantum…

Recent research has demonstrated that quantum computers can solve certain types of problems substantially faster than the known classical algorithms. These problems include factoring integers and certain physics simulations. Practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Emanuel Knill , Raymond Laflamme , Wojciech H. Zurek

Navier-Stokes equations are significant partial differential equations that describe the motion of fluids such as liquids and air. Due to the importance of Navier-Stokes equations, the development on efficient numerical schemes is important…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-21 Rui Zhang , Peiyan Hu , Qi Meng , Yue Wang , Rongchan Zhu , Bingguang Chen , Zhi-Ming Ma , Tie-Yan Liu

Classical computers can simulate models of quantum computation with restricted input states. The identification of such states can sharpen the boundary between quantum and classical computations. Previous works describe simulable states of…

We report the quantum computing of reacting flows by simulating the Hamiltonian dynamics. The scalar transport equation for reacting flows is transformed into a Hamiltonian system, mapping the dissipative and non-Hermitian problem in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-30 Zhen Lu , Yue Yang

Quantum turbulence shares many similarities with classical turbulence in the isotropic and homogeneous case, despite the inviscid and quantized nature of its vortices. However, when quantum fluids are subjected to rotation, their turbulent…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-06-23 Julian Amette Estrada , Marc E. Brachet , Pablo D. Mininni

Quantum computing has attracted considerable attention in recent years because it promises speed-ups that conventional supercomputers cannot offer, at least for some applications. Though existing quantum computers are, in most cases, still…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-05-08 Malte Schade , Cyrill Boesch , Vaclav Hapla , Andreas Fichtner

The developments over the last five decades concerning numerical discretisations of the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations have lead to reliable tools for their approximation: those include stable methods to properly address the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Dominic Breit , Andreas Prohl , Jörn Wichmann

We develop circuit implementations for digital-level quantum Hamiltonian dynamics simulation algorithms suitable for implementation on a reconfigurable quantum computer, such as trapped ions. Our focus is on the co-design of a problem, its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-09 Yunseong Nam , Dmitri Maslov