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Spectral quantum algorithm for passive scalar transport in shear flows (2505.10136v1)

Published 15 May 2025 in quant-ph and physics.flu-dyn

Abstract: The mixing of scalar substances in fluid flows by stirring and diffusion is ubiquitous in natural flows, chemical engineering, and microfluidic drug delivery. Here, we present a spectral quantum algorithm for scalar mixing by solving the advection-diffusion equation in a quantum computational fluid dynamics framework. We derive exact gate decompositions of the advection and diffusion operators in spectral space. For all but the simplest one-dimensional flows, these operators do not commute. Therefore, we use operator splitting and construct quantum circuits capable of simulating arbitrary polynomial velocity profiles, such as the Blasius profile of a laminar boundary layer. Periodic, Neumann, and Dirichlet boundary conditions can be imposed with the appropriate quantum spectral transform plus additional constraints on the Fourier expansion. We evaluate our approach in statevector simulations of a Couette flow, plane Poiseuille flow, and a polynomial Blasius profile approximation to demonstrate its potential and versatility for scalar mixing in shear flows. The number of gates grows with, at most, the cubed logarithm of the number of grid points. This evaluation shows that spectral accuracy allows comparably large time steps even though the operator splitting limits the temporal order.

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