Session S1: Controlling Dissipation in Quantum Systems

2:00 PM–4:00 PM, Friday, May 28, 2010
Room: Imperial East

Chair: Jake Taylor, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Abstract ID: BAPS.2010.DAMOP.S1.2

Abstract: S1.00002 : Dissipative processes for quantum simulation and computation

2:30 PM–3:00 PM

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Author:

  Frank Verstraete
    (University of Vienna)

Dissipative processes and decoherence have traditionally been seen as the main obstacles to build a scalable quantum computer. However, if the dissipation can be engineered to include many-body processes, it can be turned into a resource allowing for robust quantum computation and quantum simulation: the result of the quantum computation or simulation arises as the steady-state of a many-body master equation. As a novel application of those ideas, we will also discuss the quantum Metropolis algorithm, which is the first quantum algorithm that allows to simulate static properties of quantum many-body systems.

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