Argonne Physics Colloquium: James Whitfield, Dartmouth College

Indistinigishablity of particles has particularly interesting significance in the quantum domain. Mathematical tools and observations about identical non-interacting particles have implications for both quantum and conventional computing. I, along with my group and our collaborators, have been considering Indistinigishable fermions and their simulation on both conventional and quantum computers. Our primary focus has been on the computational complexity of fermionic problems and on the spin to fermion transforms needed to utilize qubit-based devices for fermionic simulation. This talk will give a brief tour of both areas of our research. At the end, I will introduce some of our new results concerning a completely delocalized toy model of interacting fermions.

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