Stability and – if necessary – rapid and efficient error correction in the operation of system-relevant public infrastructure such as water and power supply or communications is of strategic relevance to the community. All these structures can be modeled as finite, usually coupled networks, but the rapidly growing complexity of conceivable fault scenarios, which increases with the size of the network, makes simulation-based problem intervention in real time difficult. By mapping typical network structures to quantum networks and implementing them on IBM quantum hardware, the potential of quantum mechanical interference effects for increasing the efficiency of such simulations will be explored.
Partners: Group Agent Based Simulation Methods, Department of Security Technology and Structural Protection, Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI (coordinator); Department of Quantum Optics and Statistics, Institute of Physics, Albert Ludwig University Freiburg (ALU)