Ph CS 219A Lecture 17 Quantum Simulation

Physics / Computer Science 219A at Caltech: Quantum Computation
Lecture 17: Quantum simulation
Lecturer: John Preskill
Slides for this lecture:

Lectures were recorded in Fall 2020.
Slides for each lecture are available at the course website.

[intpsoftware]

At roughly 20:00, why was variable b introduced in the first step of expanding the exponential of the sum of Hamiltonians?

[gregoryhead]

I observed (t) 144000 ns/c^2=n so that sqrt((144000 ns)(n))^-1 : c^2 = 1 ns on Wolfram|Alpha, for tU × (72 k) total number of qubits.