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Radiation effects and defects in solids

Qubit lattice algorithms

George Vahala, Efstratios Koukoutsis, Min Soe, Kyriakos Hizanidis, Linda L. Vahala, Abhay K. Ram

Published Nov 2, 2023• 2 citations
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Abstract

  1. Qubit lattice[Q1] algorithms (QLA) (1–7) can be viewed as a cousin of the more familiar lattice Boltzmann scheme (LB) (8) to solve classical physics problems computationally in a more efficient ...
DOI
10.1080/10420150.2023.2291764

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