QuantumFusion is here to save our planet from an ecological disaster. Fossil fuels are being burnt at an alarming rate which is slowly heating up our planet and leading to rising sea levels, air pollution, and catastrophic effects on all forms of life. QuantumFusion will merge two of the quickest advancing technological fields, quantum computers and fusion reactors.

Right now, the best supercomputers control our fusion reactors, but they are nothing to the computational power of quantum computers. With a quantum computer acting as the mainframe for fusion reactors, they can be more efficient in the extraction and production of energy, and cryptographical safety. With the world being online, nothing is 100% safe. But, I will use methods such as Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) to strengthen our commonly used public key encryption so that our fusion reactor will be safe from outside threats.

Once this is achieved and ongoing, my project will then explore how quantum simulations can exponentially increase predicting the behavior of plasma. Since the creation of plasma is a non-equilibrium evolution, strong entanglement will occur, and for these types of calculations, quantum devices are crucial. Currently, our common modeling system for plasma consists of MHD and PIC simulations, which are inefficient compared to the power of quantum computers. Even though research behind modeling systems for plasma, using quantum computers, is in its infancy, I hope to create a system that will accurately and quickly produce plasma simulations. A speedup in plasma simulation is necessary to master fusion energy helping us better understand ‘edge conditions’. A breakdown in this condition is what causes hot plasma to cool down which leads a fusion reactor to stop producing energy. Understanding these conditions better will allow us to stop a breakdown and keep fusion reactors producing energy for longer.

The quantum mainframe will be a summation of all the tasks that a quantum computer does for a fusion reactor. Even though only two benefits, predictive modeling of plasma and quantum cryptographical safety, have been listed, there are many other ways for a quantum computer to help a fusion reactor. Topics such as energy management, optimization of energy usage, and the monitoring and manipulation of plasma are all exponentially enhanced with the aid of a quantum computer. And even though these fields are still developing, they will be here before we know it. My goal is for them to grow together so that at their mastery, these two will be a perfect synergy.