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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 |
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| **Authors:** Ford, P I |
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| ## Summary |
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| 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. |
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| ## Canonical records |
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| - **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 |
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| ## What's in this repository |
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| - `*_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`). |
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| ## Reproduce |
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| ```bash |
| unzip *_reproducibility_bundle.zip -d bundle && cd bundle |
| pip install -r requirements.txt |
| jupyter notebook reproduce.ipynb |
| ``` |
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| ## Scope |
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| 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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