Duke & NC State will host a Collaborative Quantum Computing Seminar Sept 3, 2021! Talk Title: Quantum computing with rotation-symmetric bosonic codes Speaker: Josh Combes, University of Colorado, Boulder Abstract: Bosonic mode error-correcting codes are error-correcting codes where a qubit (or qudit) is encoded into one or multiple bosonic modes, i.e., quantum oscillators with an…
NC State & Duke will host a Collaborative Quantum Computing Seminar Sept 10, 2021! Talk Title: Gate-free state preparation for fast VQE molecular simulations Speaker: Oinam Romesh Meitei, Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Abstract: The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is currently the flagship algorithm for molecular simulations on near-term quantum computers. The algorithm involves implementing a…
NC State & Duke will host a Collaborative Quantum Computing Seminar Sept 10, 2021! Talk Title: Circuit QED: From Materials to Mathematics Speaker: Andrew Houck, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University Abstract: Superconducting circuits provide a useful toolbox for science at the intersection of many different fields – materials, devices, physics, computer science,…
NC State & Duke will host a Collaborative Quantum Computing Seminar Sept 10, 2021! Talk Title: Software and the honeycomb code Speaker: Craig Gidney, Google AI Quantum Abstract: Recently, Hastings & Haah published a preprint (arXiv:2107.02194) describing a quantum code where the logical observables must dance around. The counter-intuitive nature of the code's observables, and historical precedent,…
Duke & NC State will host a series of Collaborative Quantum Computing Seminars for 2021 - 2022 Academic year! Fall Break - No Speaker - Oct. 1, 2021 Have a Happy, Safe and Howling Good Fall Break! We will have a speaker for Oct. 8. at noon. Please Join us then. This is a Hybrid…
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO OCTOBER 29, 2021 - If you have Registered to attend you will receive follow up information directly. This Seminar will be held October 8, 2021 from 12 Noon - 1pm Talk Title: Topological quantum compiling -- an introduction Speaker: Layla Hormozi Abstract: Topological quantum computers are hypothetical devices in…
Duke & NC State will host a series of Collaborative Quantum Computing Seminars for 2021 - 2022 Academic year! Seminars will be held each Friday this fall from 12 Noon - 1pm Talk Title: Optimizing Tensor Network Ansatzes Speaker: Daniel Stilck França Abstract: Tensor network states form a variational ansatz class widely used, both analytically…
Duke & NC State will host a series of Collaborative Quantum Computing Seminars for 2021 - 2022 Academic year! Seminars will be held each Friday this fall from 12 Noon - 1pm Talk Title: Exploring Airline Gate-Scheduling Optimization Using Quantum Computers Speaker: Hamed Mohammadbagerpoor Abstract: Finding an optimal solution for scheduling, planning, and resource allocation…
Duke & NC State will host a series of Collaborative Quantum Computing Seminars for 2021 - 2022 Academic year! Seminars will be held each Friday this fall from 12 Noon - 1pm Talk Title: Topological quantum compiling -- an introduction Speaker: Layla Hormozi Abstract: Topological quantum computers are hypothetical devices in which quantum information is stored…
Duke & NC State will host a series of Collaborative Quantum Computing Seminars for 2021 - 2022 Academic year! Seminars will be held each Friday this fall from 12 Noon - 1pm Talk Title:Lessons from Quantum Annealing for the NISQ Era Speaker: Tameem Albash Abstract: As a general-purpose quantum optimization algorithm, quantum annealing was billed…
Duke & NC State will host a series of Collaborative Quantum Computing Seminars for 2021 - 2022 Academic year! Seminars will be held each Friday this fall from 12 Noon - 1pm Talk Title: Implementing high-fidelity gates in ion traps Speaker: Kenton Brown and Holly Tinkey Abstract: Trapped-ion quantum technologies continue to develop into more…
Duke & NC State will host a series of Collaborative Quantum Computing Seminars for 2021 - 2022 Academic year! Seminars will be held each Friday this fall from 12 Noon - 1pm Talk Title: Optically Trapped Atomic Qubits Speaker: Jonathan King, Chief Scientist, Atom Computing Abstract: Ultracold neutral atoms have emerged as a leading platform…