Reconstructing fluid velocity fields from sparse sensors using a variational quantum algorithm

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.09268v1
• Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:00:00 GMT
• Title: Reconstructing fluid velocity fields from sparse sensors using a variational quantum algorithm
• Abstract summary: We propose a variational quantum algorithm that reconstructs the solution over the entire spacetime domain at once.<n>We demonstrate the method on the one-dimensional Burgers and Kuramoto--Sivashinsky equations using numerical simulations.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Reconstructing fields governed by nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) from sparse measurements is a challenging task because the governing equations are strongly nonlinear and observations are available at only a few locations. Fluid velocity fields are a representative case. In this paper, we propose a variational quantum algorithm that reconstructs the solution over the entire spacetime domain at once. Rather than marching in time, the method encodes the full discrete spacetime solution in a single variational quantum state, so that all time points are optimized jointly. The cost function combines a sparse-measurement mismatch term with a physics-informed PDE violation term, letting data and the governing equation constrain the solution simultaneously. We demonstrate the method on the one-dimensional Burgers and Kuramoto--Sivashinsky equations using numerical simulations. The results suggest that variational quantum algorithms with a spacetime encoding scheme offer a compact framework for reconstructing nonlinear PDE dynamics.

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