InstituteQ Colloquium: Prof. Rosa Di Felice

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
Register: Webropol link to register

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.