I work on the physics mostly of
stuff, of solids, and what happens when you
take lots of particles and you put them
inside a material you make them interact.
There's a lot of interesting problems in
physics where the data you would need to
store to solve the problem is just far
too big. And this is one thing that
quantum computers are good at, not
because they have better memory but
because they store things differently. So
it's like if you had a combination lock
you could try all of the combinations at
once rather than just one at a time. We
would like to be able to understand the
physics of interacting systems. We need
to be able to model them, and they're usually too big for us to handle. With quantum
computers we have hope that we can do it. Having the Q Hub here, the benefits for NC State
is that it allows us earlier and better
access to quantum hardware that other
people don't necessarily have access to.
All sorts of large companies are very
interested in using this to solve their
problems. As students, they'll be able to
get into this stuff earlier on, and
that'll make them better set up to make
contributions wherever they're going to
work in the future. I solve complex
problems in physics using quantum
computing, and that's how I think and do
at NC State.
