Davide VODOLA (KDC Next Generation Computing - BASF Digital Solutions)

Quantum computing at BASF

  • Date: 12 MAY 2025  from 14:30 to 15:30

  • Event location: Sala IR-2A

Quantum computing at BASF

I will present some of the activities of the quantum computing team at BASF. After a general overview of the main projects, I will discuss the research we are carrying within the Material science working group of QUTAC that is a consortium of different German companies working on devising, developing and testing quantum algorithms for industrial applications. I will mainly focus on beyond-NISQ / early-fault-tolerant quantum algorithms in particular on a quantum enhanced version of the auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo, a quantum imaginary time evolution algorithm, and a qubit-efficient randomized quantum algorithm for quantum chemistry simulations.