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- Title
The Potential of Quantum Computing for Geoscience.
- Authors
Sahimi, Muhammad; Tahmasebi, Pejman
- Abstract
Characterization and modeling of geomedia, computing their effective flow, transport, elastic, and other properties, and simulating various phenomena that occur there constitute some of the most intensive calculations in science and engineering. Over the past twenty five years, however, development of quantum computers has made great progress, and powerful quantum algorithms have been developed for simulating many important and computationally difficult problems, with the potential for enormous speed-up over the most efficient classical algorithms. This perspective describes such algorithms and discusses their potential applications to problems in geoscience, ranging from reconstruction and modeling of geomedia, to simulating fluid flow by the Stokes and Navier-Stokes equations, or lattice Boltzmann and lattice gas methods, numerical solution of the advection-diffusion equation, pattern recognition in and analysis of big data, machine learning methods, and image processing. Although several hurdles remain that must be overcome before practical computations with quantum computers, and in particular those associated with geoscience, become possible, such as designing fault-tolerant quantum computers, which is still far into the future, noisy intermediate-scale computers are already available whose capabilities have been demonstrated for various problems.
- Subjects
QUANTUM computing; QUANTUM computers; STOKES flow; EARTH sciences; NUMERICAL solutions to equations; NAVIER-Stokes equations
- Publication
Transport in Porous Media, 2022, Vol 145, Issue 2, p367
- ISSN
0169-3913
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11242-022-01855-8