Print Email Facebook Twitter QuantumSim: A memory efficient simulator for quantum computing Title QuantumSim: A memory efficient simulator for quantum computing Author Budhrani, Ravish (TU Delft Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science) Contributor Bertels, K.L.M. (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Computer Science Date 2020-10-16 Abstract Classical computing has been evolving, to help solve harder problems. Following Moore’s Law the miniaturisation of transistors has helped improve performance. However, this has led to a ”Power Wall”. The clock frequency of processors have not been making the leaps predicted by Moore’s law. This is simply because the power dissipation becomes too high after a certain frequency. This, along with a few other factors, led the industry to move to multi-core processors and continue to homogeneous multi-core systems, multiple cores that are identical to each other, and heterogeneous, multiple cores that are not identical to each other. To further improve performance of computing systems, hardware accelerators were introduced. The one we are all familiar with is the GPU (graphics processing unit). As the name suggests it is an accelerator to process graphics. It is used extensively for image processing and is much faster at doing this than a CPU. There are many more types of hardware accelerators that offers high speedups for certain applications. Quantum accelerators are one such example. There are a certain class of problems that cannot be solved, or rather will take too long to solve on a classical computer, such that it is practically infeasible. One such problem is prime-factorisation problem. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8d0d0375-f35c-472f-bdd7-ad0012b22c91 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2020 Ravish Budhrani Files PDF MSc_Thesis_Budhrani.pdf 1.41 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:8d0d0375-f35c-472f-bdd7-ad0012b22c91/datastream/OBJ/view