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It has been very exciting to present our research at the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) 2024 Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City. Hirad Alipanah presented the talk "Quantum Time Evolution for Solving the Advection Diffusion Equation". Juan José Mendoza Arenas presented the talk "Quantum Inspired Simulations for Reacting Flows".

It has been a pleasure to have Dr. Michael Zwolak visiting our department. Michael is the Group Leader of Biophysics & Biomedical Measurement at NIST. He delivered an exciting seminar on tensor network simulations for many-body quantum transport. Looking forward to having Michael visit again!

Our article on how dephasing can enhance spin transport in nonequilibrium tilted lattices has just beed published in Frontiers in Physics. This work is the result of a very nice collaboration with Samuel Jacob, Laetitia Bettmann Artur Lacerda and John Goold from Trinity College Dublin; Krissia Zawadzki from Instituto de Física de São Carlos, and Stephen Clark from the University of Bristol.

I am excited to start delivering our new graduate course, “ME 2038/MSE 2049 – Tensor Networks: Computational Methods for Material Sciences, Engineering and Beyond”. In this course, I will present the basics of tensor network theory, the representation of many-body quantum states and general high-order tensors as matrix product states, algorithms for optimization (DMRG) and time evolution (TEBD, TDVP), more advanced tensor networks (Trees, MERA, PEPS), and applications to different fields. Students from different backgrounds, including engineering, physics, chemistry, and computer science, are welcome!

Two new PhD students, Felipe Gómez Lozada and Daniel Madrid, are joining our team. Felipe is a physicist from Colombia. He did his undergraduate studies at Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He has expertise on tensor network methods for simulating systems of interacting bosons, in particular superfluid and insulating states. Daniel works full-time as an R&D engineer at the Naval Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) where he focuses on emerging and enabling technologies in nuclear propulsion. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degree in mechanical engineering from The University of Arizona and Arizona State University, respectively. His research topic is quantum computational fluid dynamics. Welcome, Felipe and Daniel!

Check out our recent preprint on how dephasing can enhance spin transport in nonequilibrium tilted lattices. This work is the result of a very nice collaboration with Samuel Jacob, Laetitia Bettmann Artur Lacerda and John Goold from Trinity College Dublin; Krissia Zawadzki from Instituto de Física de São Carlos, and Stephen Clark from the University of Bristol.

Check out our recent preprint in which we discuss the insulating and superfluid phases of a mixture of SU(3) fermions and scalar bosons. This work has been done in collaboration with Jereson Silva-Valencia, our visitor from Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

It was great to organize with Peyman Givi the minisymposium "Quantum Computing for Transport Phenomena", which took place in Spokane (WA, United States) from July 8 to July 12 during the 2024 SIAM Annual Meeting (AN24). There, I presented the talk "Quantum-Inspired Simulations of Turbulent Combustion".

It has been a pleasure to participate as an invited speaker in the minisymposyum "Coarse Graining Turbulence: Modeling and Data-Driven Approaches and Their Applications I", in honor of Prof. Cesar Dopazzo, at the 9th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS). There, I presented the talk "Matrix Product State Simulation of Reactive Flows".

Our article with Stephen Clark, titled "Giant Rectification in Strongly Interacting Driven Tilted Systems", has been published in Physical Review X Quantum!

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