Sandia is one of the three research and development labs for the DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration. Most of their science and engineering is focused on unique problems related to the safety and surety of the United States’ nuclear weapons stockpile. Cutting-edge computing technologies play an important role in solving those problems, and QuAAC is helping to determine how quantum computers will be uniquely enabling for stockpile stewardship.
We are creating and refining:
- Quantum algorithms that will enhance physics and engineering modeling
- Quantum architectures that implement those algorithms
- Resource estimates for what it will take to solve specific simulation problems
Another important part of our program is the development of application-driven benchmarks for tracking progress towards fault-tolerant application-scale quantum computers in collaboration with Sandia’s Quantum Performance Laboratory.
POC: Andrew Baczewski