Lecture: Quantum Simulation in the Presence of Errors

Join us for a lecture given by Ignacio Cirac, a world-leading physicist in quantum computing and quantum information theory, a Wolf Prize laureate and a Nobel Prize candidate.

In this talk, he will discuss recent advancements in quantum computing, which have enabled the development of small-scale quantum computers and simulators that operate according to the principles of quantum physics. Despite this rapid progress, these devices remain imperfect, and errors accumulate, posing significant challenges for their application to complex problems. In this talk he will first address how those errors affect the results of both quantum computations and the simulation of quantum many-body systems. In particular, he will present several quantum simulation algorithms and discuss the potentiality of displaying quantum advantage in the presence of imperfections.

The lecture will take place on Thursday April 23rd, at 20:00 on Campus Sterre S9, A1. The lecture will be in English.

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