Early QIS Applications

Simulating physical and chemical systems and developing new quantum algorithms. Perhaps the most exciting use for a quantum computer is the ability to simulate many-body systems with quantum behavior to solve real-world physics and chemistry problems that classical computers find intractable. Techniques of trapping and manipulating cold atoms create arrays of well-behaved quantum particles, each interacting in a controlled way with its neighbors. Furthermore, encoding a two-dimensional many-body system can be done with a one-dimensional array of trapped cold atoms using the holographic principle. Such a system is currently under study, applying QIS techniques and protocols to a real-world quantum simulator.