ColibriTD Announces H-DES PDE Solver as a Step Toward Accessible Quantum Simulation in Engineering
Mohamed Abdel-Kareem2025-03-28T18:12:01-07:00Quantum software company ColibriTD has successfully demonstrated the Hybrid Differential Equation Solver (H-DES) on IBM’s 156-qubit Heron R2 quantum processor, achieving what it describes as the first solution of a partial differential equation (PDE) using a variational quantum algorithm (VQA) on real quantum hardware. The algorithm converged on the inviscid Burgers’ equation using 50 qubits and 10,000 shots per iteration, showcasing the viability of solving nonlinear, high-dimensional PDEs using quantum-enhanced methods. H-DES addresses the curse of dimensionality in classical solvers by encoding candidate solutions into parameterized quantum circuits, then classically optimizing the residual of the target PDE. Unlike mesh-based classical methods, [...]