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SUMMARY:NC State and Duke Quantum Computing Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Duke & NC State will host a series of Collaborative Quantum Computing Seminars for 2021 – 2022 Academic year! \nSeminars will be held each Friday this fall from 12 Noon – 1pm \nTalk Title:Lessons from Quantum Annealing for the NISQ Era \nSpeaker:  Tameem Albash \nAbstract: As a general-purpose quantum optimization algorithm\, quantum annealing was billed as a promising approach for early demonstrations of the broad utility of quantum computing. When the first commercial quantum annealing devices became available in 2011\, there was palpable excitement that we were on the verge of demonstrating the first quantum advantage over classical computing. This has not materialized yet; instead the physical realization of the algorithm in quantum annealers has revealed many obstacles.  I will discuss how decoherence in various forms impedes a determination of the potential of the algorithm\, and how strict benchmarking standards and improving classical algorithms have set a high bar for the demonstration of a quantum advantage. Our experience with quantum annealers will hopefully be valuable in evaluating future quantum information processors in the Noisy-Intermediate Scale Quantum era. \nThis is a Hybrid Collaborative Event with NC State and Duke. The In Person location for NC State is Venture Place\, 2nd Floor\, Large Classroom. \nREGISTRATION: Form Link \nFor more information email: \nquantumcomputing@ncsu.edu
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SUMMARY:Duke and NC State Quantum Computing Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Duke & NC State will host a series of Collaborative Quantum Computing Seminars for 2021 – 2022 Academic year! \nSeminars will be held each Friday this fall from 12 Noon – 1pm \nTalk Title:  Implementing high-fidelity gates in ion traps \nSpeaker:  Kenton Brown and Holly Tinkey \nAbstract: Trapped-ion quantum technologies continue to develop into more sophisticated devices. Several experiments now trap tens of ions to perform small-scale algorithms in cutting-edge\, small-scale quantum computing testbeds. Here we present results demonstrating two tools not yet widely incorporated into the latest experiments. The first of these is the creation of a Bell-state with the highest fidelity yet measured [fidelity 0.9994(3)]. To achieve this result\, we employ a light-shift-based entangling scheme acting on a pair of 40Ca+ ions in a cryogenic surface-electrode ion trap. This experiment leverages qubit levels separated by an optical transition frequency as well as the high optical power that is available from a commercial 532 nm Nd:YAG laser. In another experiment\, we perform a two-qubit entangling Mølmer-Sørensen gate by transporting two 40Ca+ ions in a linear surface Paul trap through a stationary\, bichromatic laser beam. We measure variations in the Doppler shift of the ions during this transport and correct for these variations using modifications to the time dependence of the moving trap potential. This correction is enabled by the use of arbitrary waveform generators with high (20 MSPS) sampling rates for trap-electrode control. \nThis is a Hybrid Collaborative Event with NC State and Duke. The In Person location for NC State is Venture Place\, 2nd Floor\, Large Classroom. \nREGISTRATION: Form Link \nFor more information email: \nquantumcomputing@ncsu.edu
URL:https://quantum.ncsu.edu/ibm-quantum/event/duke-and-nc-state-quantum-computing-seminar-5/
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SUMMARY:NC State and Duke Quantum Computing Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Duke & NC State will host a series of Collaborative Quantum Computing Seminars for 2021 – 2022 Academic year! \nSeminars will be held each Friday this fall from 12 Noon – 1pm \nTalk Title:  Optically Trapped Atomic Qubits \nSpeaker: Jonathan King\, Chief Scientist\, Atom Computing \nAbstract:  Ultracold neutral atoms have emerged as a leading platform for scalable quantum simulation\, but can they be similarly used for gate-based quantum computation? In this talk\, I will present an overview of major accomplishments in academia that have spurred multiple different startups to enter the quantum computing race\, focusing on the use of neutral atoms as a scalable qubit platform. With these proof of principle demonstrations in mind\, I will describe Atom Computing’s first prototype system which\, very recently\, announced the use of a unique qubit to achieve T2* times in excess of 20 seconds. Utilizing qubit states that are broadly insensitive to the environment they are trapped in\, this system is quickly becoming a testbed for how to build programmatic control into neutral atom systems that rivals other leading quantum computing platforms. \nThis is a Hybrid Collaborative Event with NC State and Duke. The In Person location for NC State is Venture Place\, 2nd Floor\, Large Classroom. \nREGISTRATION: Form Link \nFor more information email: \nquantumcomputing@ncsu.edu
URL:https://quantum.ncsu.edu/ibm-quantum/event/nc-state-and-duke-quantum-computing-seminar-5/
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