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Your comment made me wonder: would quantum computing help with simulating plasma dynamics in a way that would help us improve fusion reactors?
by Eridrus 9y ago
Your comment made me wonder: would quantum computing help with simulating plasma dynamics in a way that would help us improve fusion reactors?
- kirrent 9y agoAlmost certainly not. The quantum computer is useful to get around the exponential scaling of problem difficulty in simulating quantum systems. In plasma physics that's not the issue. It's the crazy large size of the problem that scales in a classical and otherwise reasonable manner.
- shoyer 9y agoNo, plasma physics is one of the few areas of modern physics in which quantum mechanics is not relevant: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskPhysics/comments/3nohxy/plasma_physics_and_quantum_mechanics/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskPhysics/comments/3nohxy/plasma_p...
- Eridrus 9y agoWell that's a bummer.