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About nuclear engineering and heavy simulations

Particle transport is a critical computational bottleneck across nuclear reactors, medical imaging, radiation therapy, and many other complex systems.

Today, these problems rely heavily on Monte Carlo simulations, requiring enormous numbers of particle trajectories to reach high precision.

Despite the advantages nuclear applications may have for our day-to-day lives, research and development in this field is often delayed by heavy simulations.

Our solution

In Nuclear Quantum, we explore how quantum algorithms can drastically reduce the number of samples needed to reach the same precision, opening the door to faster simulations, better design decisions, and more accurate modeling of some of the world’s most complex physical systems.

Simulation highlights

Particle transport is mapped onto a compact quantum representation of stochastic propagation and interaction histories.

Hierarchical state preparation encodes free-flight and collision statistics without resolving every transport step explicitly.

Quantum-controlled interaction and boundary logic captures scattering, absorption, and propagation across heterogeneous media.

The resulting transport circuit forms a reusable simulation primitive (oracle) designed for integration with quantum amplitude-estimation methods.

Integrating quantum simulation into the classical framework

Faster design, deeper insight, and better optimization require quantum-accelerated nuclear simulation.

The hybrid approach
The strong combination of existing simulations with quantum computing has the potential to accelerate development across many fields. Outsourcing heavy calculations to a high-performance quantum computer will enable more efficient exploration of large simulation spaces.
Division of labor
The quantum algorithm will complement the existing simulation workflows, as it will target computationally intensive particle-transport calculations while allowing classical models to continue driving system-level analysis and decision-making.
Where it applies
From gamma-ray transport and medical imaging to reactor criticality, and optimization, we develop an adaptive quantum simulation framework, designed to accelerate these computationally intensive nuclear calculations.
The outcome
By integrating quantum processing into existing simulation workflows, we aim to enable faster exploration of system designs, operating conditions, criticality, and long-term performance.