7-11 July 2014
Africa/Johannesburg timezone
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A quantum circuit modeling toolkit for high performance computing

9 Jul 2014, 17:10
1h 50m
D Ring ground level

D Ring ground level

Board: F.158
Poster Presentation Track F - Applied Physics Poster2

Speaker

Mr Makhamsia Senekane (University of KwaZulu-Natal)

Level for award<br>&nbsp;(Hons, MSc, <br> &nbsp; PhD)?

PhD

Apply to be<br> considered for a student <br> &nbsp; award (Yes / No)?

Yes

Main supervisor (name and email)<br>and his / her institution

Prof. Francesco Petruccione (petruccione@ukzn.ac.za)
University of KwaZulu-Natal

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Yes

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Theoretically, quantum computers are known to solve a certain class of problems more efficiently than their classical counterparts. This is due to parallelism which is inherent in quantum algorithms. However, a full-scale quantum computer has not been realized as yet. Therefore, in order to validate and debug quantum circuits, a classical computer is used. Since most of these circuits are simulated using personal computers (PCs), quantum circuits with a limited number of quantum bits (qubits) can only be simulated, due to computational limitations of PCs. In this work, we report the simulation of quantum circuits on a high performance platform using message passing interface for the Python (mpi4py) package.

Primary author

Mr Makhamsia Senekane (University of KwaZulu-Natal)

Co-authors

Mr Bheki Zulu (University of KwaZulu-Natal) Prof. Francesco Petruccione (University of KwaZulu-Natal)

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