Simulation of a Battery Cell on Quantum Computers: Reactions & Transport
Abstract
Simulations of electrochemical materials and systems accelerate technological progress, but are still limited by computational power. In particular, quantum computing offers prospects for higher resolutions, due to the exponential amount of data that can be stored in a quantum state. As current quantum computers are still noisy, we consider a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm, that divides the problem into smaller computational tasks. We describe how to implement such an algorithm for non-linear partial differential equations, the Feynman-Kitaev Hamiltonian, in a scalable way for an electrochemical system. We show how it can evaluate general electrochemical models and present a quantum simulation of the Single Particle Model with electrolyte (SPMe) as the first quantum simulation of a battery cell.
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BibTeX
@misc{pool2026simulation,
title = {{Simulation of a Battery Cell on Quantum Computers: Reactions & Transport}},
author = {Albert J. Pool and Michael Schelling and Birger Horstmann},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.28369},
eprint = {2609.28369},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28369},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Simulation of a Battery Cell on Quantum Computers: Reactions & Transport
AU - Albert J. Pool
AU - Michael Schelling
AU - Birger Horstmann
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/23
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.28369
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28369
AB - Simulations of electrochemical materials and systems accelerate technological progress, but are still limited by computational power. In particular, quantum computing offers prospects for higher resolutions, due to the exponential amount of data that can be stored in a quantum state. As current quantum computers are still noisy, we consider a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm, that divides the problem into smaller computational tasks. We describe how to implement such an algorithm for non-linear partial differential equations, the Feynman-Kitaev Hamiltonian, in a scalable way for an electrochemical system. We show how it can evaluate general electrochemical models and present a quantum simulation of the Single Particle Model with electrolyte (SPMe) as the first quantum simulation of a battery cell.
ER -