Strange attractor simulated on a quantum computer

M. Terraneo, B. Georgeot, D. L. Shepelyansky

Published 2002-03-14, updated 2002-08-16Version 3

We show that dissipative classical dynamics converging to a strange attractor can be simulated on a quantum computer. Such quantum computations allow to investigate efficiently the small scale structure of strange attractors, yielding new information inaccessible to classical computers. This opens new possibilities for quantum simulations of various dissipative processes in nature.