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license: cc-by-4.0
pretty_name: "Quantum Simulation of Fusion Kinetics and Materials, Honestly: 5-Qubit Landau Damping, ADAPT-VQE at Chemical Accuracy, a"
tags:
- fusion-energy
- plasma-physics
- quantum-computing
- hamiltonian-simulation
- landau-damping
- vlasov-poisson
- adapt-vqe
- quantum-chemistry
- resource-estimation
- spherical-tokamak
- negative-triangularity
- deuterium-helium-3-tandem-mirror
- tritium-breeding-ratio
- direct-energy-conversion
- rebco
- helium-3
- neutronics
- gyrokinetics
- fusion-materials
- physics-de-risking
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# Quantum Simulation of Fusion Kinetics and Materials, Honestly: 5-Qubit Landau Damping, ADAPT-VQE at Chemical Accuracy, and the Resource Frontier
**Authors:** Ford, P I
## Summary
Quantum computing for fusion, with honest resource estimates. Landau damping reproduced on a five-qubit Hamiltonian-simulation circuit; ADAPT-VQE at chemical accuracy on the candidate fusion-alloy fragments; and a resource frontier separating the tractable linear kinetic operator (early fault-tolerant) from the nonlinear gyrokinetic problem (fault-tolerant horizon). Noisy hardware shows no advantage today; classical gyrokinetics remains cheaper at every demonstrated scale.
## Canonical records
- **Zenodo (canonical DOI):** https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22132180
- **Figshare DOI:** https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.33361338
- **Publisher:** Kronos Fusion Energy — 2026 Physics De-Risking series
## What's in this repository
- `*_Editorial_2026.pdf` — the editorial edition of the paper.
- `*_reproducibility_bundle.zip` — the reproducibility bundle: toolkit source, the per-gate runs the paper cites, and a student pack (concept notes, tutorial, glossary, `reproduce.ipynb`, `requirements.txt`).
## Reproduce
```bash
unzip *_reproducibility_bundle.zip -d bundle && cd bundle
pip install -r requirements.txt
jupyter notebook reproduce.ipynb
```
## Scope
Physics and engineering only; no economics. Every quantity traces to a documented gate in the KRONOS de-risking register. Honest gates are stated in the paper.
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