Finding Colliding Black Holes with Quantum Computing

In 2015 #LIGO discovered the first experimental evidence for #gravitationalwaves by directly detecting the gravitational waves emitted by a #blackhole merger. Recently, several teams have shown different methods for doing the matched filtering algorithm on a #quantumcomputer, and one team has actually run this algorithm on real #IBM quantum hardware.

Join me in understanding how they did this, why they did it, and what it means for the future of #quantum #computing and #astrophysics.

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All clips used under youtube Creative Commons license
Sources:
1) 00:00-00:12s space cinema

2) 0:12-0:29, 0:29-0:35, 1:07-1:23 LIGO Lab Caltech MIT

3) 0:35-1:07, 5:00-5:10, 7:39-7:46 LIGO Lab Caltech MIT

4) 1:52-2:16 01DOGG01

5) 2:15-2:42, 7:29-7:39, 11:03-11:08 IBM Research

6) 3:42-4:11, 05:34-05:51 David Butler

7) 11:08-11:17 Veske et al.

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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Two Black Holes Merge!
00:38 The 2017 Nobel Prize
01:39 Matched Filtering
03:14 Classical Matched Filtering
06:01 Quantum Computing Speedrun
07:15 Quantum State Preparation (Quantum Amplitude Encoding)
07:47 The Quantum Algorithm
11:01 The Results!

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[Thingsguy]

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