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meet the meQuanics is a regular podcast discussing the developments in quantum technologies. Targeted at the lay person, we will discuss the state of the art research in quantum enabled technologies with experts worldwide.
During this time of lockdown, the centre for quantum software and information (QSI) at the University of Technology Sydney has launched an online seminar series. With talks once or twice a week from leading researchers in the field, meQuanics is supporting this series by mirroring the audio from each talk. I would encourage if you listen to this episode, to visit and subscribe to the UTS:QSI YouTube page to see each of these talks with the associated slides to help it make more sense.
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Free-Fermion Solutions and Frustration Graphs
TITLE: Characterization of free-fermion-solvable spin models via graph invariants
SPEAKER: Dr Adrian Chapman
AFFILIATION: ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS), University of Sydney, Australia
HOSTED BY: A/Prof Chris Ferrie, UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information
ABSTRACT: Finding exact solutions to spin models is a fundamental problem of many-body physics. A workhorse technique for exact solution methods is mapping to an effective description by noninteracting fermions. The paradigmatic example of this is the Jordan-Wigner transformation for finding an exact solution to the one-dimensional XY model. Another important example is the exact free-fermion solution to the two-dimensional Kitaev honeycomb model. I will describe a framework for recognizing general models which can be solved this way by utilizing the tools of graph theory. Our construction relies on a connection to the graph-theoretic problem of recognizing line graphs, which has been solved optimally. A corollary of this result is a complete set of constant-sized frustration structures which obstruct a free-fermion solution. We classify the kinds of Pauli symmetries which can be present in models for which a free-fermion solution exists, and we find that they correspond to either: (i) gauge qubits, (ii) cycles on the free-fermion hopping graph, or (iii) the fermion parity. Clifford symmetries, except in finitely-many cases, must be symmetries of the free-fermion Hamiltonian itself. We expect our characterization to motivate a renewed exploration of free-fermion-solvable models, and I will close with an elaborate discussion of how we expect to generalize our framework beyond generator-to-generator mappings.
RELATED ARTICLES: Characterization of solvable spin models via graph invariants. Quantum 4, 278 (2020). Characterization of solvable spin models via graph invariants: quantum-journal.org/papers/q-2020-06-04-278/
OTHER LINKS: Adrian Chapman Webpage: https://equs.org/users/adrian-chapman
During this time of lockdown, the centre for quantum software and information (QSI) at the University of Technology Sydney has launched an online seminar series. With talks once or twice a week from leading researchers in the field, meQuanics is supporting this series by mirroring the audio from each talk. I would encourage if you listen to this episode, to visit and subscribe to the UTS:QSI YouTube page to see each of these talks with the associated slides to help it make more sense.
https://youtu.be/2syrO_asU5Y
Hardness of Random Circuit Sampling (Google's supremacy experiment)
TITLE: Cayley Path and Quantum Supremacy SPEAKER: Dr Ramis Movassagh
AFFILIATION: MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, Cambridge MA, USA
HOSTED BY: Prof Michael Bremner, UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information
ABSTRACT: Given the large push by academia and industry (e.g., IBM and Google), quantum computers with hundred(s) of qubits are at the brink of existence with the promise of outperforming any classical computer. Demonstration of computational advantages of noisy near-term quantum computers over classical computers is an imperative near-term goal. The foremost candidate task for showing this is Random Circuit Sampling (RCS), which is the task of sampling from the output distribution of a random circuit. This is exactly the task that recently Google experimentally performed on 53-qubits. Stockmeyer's theorem implies that efficient sampling allows for estimation of probability amplitudes. Therefore, hardness of probability estimation implies hardness of sampling. We prove that estimating probabilities to within small errors is #P-hard on average (i.e. for random circuits), and put the results in the context of previous works. Some ingredients that are developed to make this proof possible are construction of the Cayley path as a rational function valued unitary path that interpolate between two arbitrary unitaries, an extension of Berlekamp-Welch algorithm that efficiently and exactly interpolates rational functions, and construction of probability distributions over unitaries that are arbitrarily close to the Haar measure.
RELATED ARTICLES: Unitary-valued paths, and an algebraic proof technique in complexity theory: https://ramismovassagh.wordpress.com/... Cayley path and quantum computational supremacy: A proof of average-case #P−hardness of Random Circuit Sampling with quantified robustness: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.06210 Efficient unitary paths and quantum computational supremacy: A proof of average-case hardness of Random Circuit Sampling: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04681
OTHER LINKS: Ramis Movassagh Personal Webpage: https://ramismovassagh.wordpress.com/
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab: https://mitibmwatsonailab.mit.edu/
During this time of lockdown, the centre for quantum software and information (QSI) at the University of Technology Sydney has launched an online seminar series. With talks once or twice a week from leading researchers in the field, meQuanics is supporting this series by mirroring the audio from each talk. I would encourage if you listen to this episode, to visit and subscribe to the UTS:QSI YouTube page to see each of these talks with the associated slides to help it make more sense.
https://youtu.be/Dg6Q_F9uI8s
Silicon spin qubits gain traction for large-scale quantum computation and simulation.
TITLE: A Scalable “Spins-Inside” Quantum Processor and Simulator SPEAKER: Prof Lieven Vandersypen
AFFILIATION: QuTech, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Dept of Quantum Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
HOSTED BY: Dr JP (Juan Pablo) Dehollain, UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information
ABSTRACT: Excellent control of over physical 50 qubits has been achieved, but can we also realize 50 fault-tolerant qubits? Here quantum bits encoded in the spin state of individual electrons in silicon quantum dot arrays have emerged as a highly promising avenue. In this talk, I will present our vision of a large-scale spin-based quantum processor, and our ongoing work to realize this vision. I will also show how the same platform offers a powerful platform for analog quantum simulation of Fermi-Hubbard physics and quantum magnetism.
RELATED ARTICLES: Physics Today 72(8), 38 (2019) npj Quantum Information 3, 34 (2017) Nature 555, 633 (2018) Science 359, 1123 (2018) Phys. Rev. X 9, 021011 (2019) Nature 579, 528 (2020) Nature 580, 355 (2020)
OTHER LINKS: Vandersypen Lab: qutech.nl/vandersypen-lab/ Delft University of Technology: https://www.tudelft.nl/
During this time of lockdown, the centre for quantum software and information (QSI) at the University of Technology Sydney has launched an online seminar series. With talks once or twice a week from leading researchers in the field, meQuanics is supporting this series by mirroring the audio from each talk. I would encourage if you listen to this episode, to visit and subscribe to the UTS:QSI YouTube page to see each of these talks with the associated slides to help it make more sense.
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Finding the ground state of the Hubbard model using hybrid quantum-classical computing.
TITLE: Strategies for solving the Fermi-Hubbard model on near-term quantum computers
SPEAKER: Lana Mineh
AFFILIATION: Quantum Engineering Technology Labs, University of Bristol, UK
HOSTED BY: Prof Michael Bremner, UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information
ABSTRACT: The Fermi-Hubbard model is of fundamental importance in condensed-matter physics, yet is extremely challenging to solve numerically. Finding the ground state of the Hubbard model using variational methods has been predicted to be one of the first applications of near-term quantum computers. Here we carry out a detailed analysis and optimisation of the complexity of variational quantum algorithms for finding the ground state of the Hubbard model, including costs associated with mapping to a real-world hardware platform. The depth complexities we find are substantially lower than previous work. We performed extensive numerical experiments for systems with up to 12 sites. The results suggest that the variational ansätze we used -- an efficient variant of the Hamiltonian Variational ansatz and a novel generalisation thereof -- will be able to find the ground state of the Hubbard model with high fidelity in relatively low quantum circuit depth. Our experiments include the effect of realistic measurements and depolarising noise. If our numerical results on small lattice sizes are representative of the somewhat larger lattices accessible to near-term quantum hardware, they suggest that optimising over quantum circuits with a gate depth less than a thousand could be sufficient to solve instances of the Hubbard model beyond the capacity of classical exact diagonalisation.
RELATED ARTICLES: Strategies for solving the Fermi-Hubbard model on near-term quantum computers: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.06007
OTHER LINKS: Quantum Engineering Technology Labs: bristol.ac.uk/qet-labs
During this time of lockdown, the centre for quantum software and information (QSI) at the University of Technology Sydney has launched an online seminar series. With talks once or twice a week from leading researchers in the field, meQuanics is supporting this series by mirroring the audio from each talk. I would encourage if you listen to this episode, to visit and subscribe to the UTS:QSI YouTube page to see each of these talks with the associated slides to help it make more sense.
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Controls and frames: A new approach to quantum noise spectroscopy
TITLE: Noise Cancellation and your Quantum Computer
SPEAKER: Dr Gerardo Paz Silva
AFFILIATION: Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University, Brisbane, Qld, Australia
HOSTED BY: A/Prof Chris Ferrie, UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information
ABSTRACT: Noise cancellation, as in everyday headphones, requires the ability to characterize & filter out the noise affecting a system one wants to protect. The last few years have seen the birth of increasingly more powerful Quantum Noise Spectroscopy (QNS) protocols, capable of characterizing the noise affecting a quantum system of interest. However, while many of these protocols have been experimentally verified, all demonstrations have been so far limited to characterizing injected noise. More importantly, even theoretically a fully general protocol is still non-existent. In this talk I will introduce our new approach to the problem, which overcomes these limitations. I will argue that by characterizing only the portions of the noise that are relevant a given set of control capabilities, e.g., available to a particular experiment, many of the existing difficulties in designing a fully general QNS protocol disappear. I describe the key ingredients allowing this and exemplify our results via two paradigmatic examples.
OTHER LINKS: Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University griffith.edu.au/centre-quantum-dynamics
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Protecting and leveraging quantum machine learning algorithms on a future quantum internet
TITLE: Introducing Adversarial Quantum Learning: Security and machine learning on the quantum internet
SPEAKER: Assistant Professor Nana Liu
AFFILIATION: Shanghai Jiao Tong University, PR China
HOSTED BY: A/Prof Chris Ferrie, UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information
ABSTRACT: In the classical world, there is a powerful interplay between security and machine learning deployed in a network, like on the modern internet. What happens when the learning algorithms and the network itself can be quantum? What are the new problems that can arise and can quantum resources offer advantages to their classical counterparts? We explore these questions in a new area called adversarial quantum learning, that combines the area of adversarial machine learning, which investigates security questions in machine learning, and quantum information. For the first part of the talk, I’ll introduce adversarial machine learning and some exciting potential prospects for contributions from quantum information and computation. For the second part of the talk, I’ll present two new works on adversarial quantum learning. Here we are able to quantify the vulnerability of quantum algorithms for classification against adversaries and learn how to leverage quantum noise to improve its robustness against attacks.
RELATED ARTICLES: Vulnerability of quantum classification to adversarial perturbations: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.04286Quantum noise protects quantum classifiers against adversaries: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.09416
OTHER LINKS: nanaliu.weebly.com/
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A growing methodological problem for practical quantum algorithms research
TITLE: Why are quantum algorithms papers so #!@*&% long?
SPEAKER: Dr Yuval Sanders
AFFILIATION: Centre for Quantum Software and Information, University of Technology Sydney
ABSTRACT: In this talk I discuss the results of two of my recent quantum algorithms papers: arXiv:2007.07391 and arXiv:2110.05708. Both of these papers are 70+ pages in length and quite dense, which needs some explanation because the underlying ideas are not particularly complicated. The reason for the length is that we, the authors, are effectively compiling quantum algorithms by hand, and we are doing a very crude job of it. I will explain that increasing paper lengths are evidence for a growing methodological problem for practical quantum algorithms research. I will also explain why that methodological problem is in large part responsible to ongoing mistakes in media when attempting to articulate the real-world applications of quantum computers.
HOSTED BY: Associate Professor Troy Lee, Centre for Quantum Software and Information, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
RELATED PAPERS: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07391; https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.05708
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Self-Guided Quantum Learning: Estimation via optimisation applied to quantum estimation
TITLE: Self-Guided Quantum Learning
SPEAKER: Associate Professor Chris Ferrie
AFFILIATION: Centre for Quantum Software and Information, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
HOSTED BY: Dr Clara Javaherian, UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information, Australia
ABSTRACT: Quantum state learning is often understood as a data analytics problem—large amounts of data collected from many prior repetitions of incompatible measurements need to be churned into a single estimate of a quantum state or channel. In this talk, I will present an adaptive optimisation algorithm which achieves the same goal, but at a drastic reduction in time and space complexity.
RELATED ARTICLES: Experimental realization of self-guided quantum process tomography: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01082Experimental Demonstration of Self-Guided Quantum Tomography: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.04194Self-guided quantum tomography: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.4101
OTHER LINKS: Chris Ferrie: csferrie.com/
During this time of lockdown, the centre for quantum software and information (QSI) at the University of Technology Sydney has launched an online seminar series. With talks once or twice a week from leading researchers in the field, meQuanics is supporting this series by mirroring the audio from each talk. I would encourage if you listen to this episode, to visit and subscribe to the UTS:QSI YouTube page to see each of these talks with the associated slides to help it make more sense.
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Bosonic mode error correcting codes: Quantum oscillators with an infinite Hilbert space
TITLE: Quantum computing with rotation-symmetric bosonic codes
SPEAKER: Assistant Professor Josh Combes
AFFILIATION: University of Colorado Boulder, CO, USA
HOSTED BY: A/Prof Chris Ferrie, UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information
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 infinite Hilbert space. In the first part of this talk I will give an introduction codes that have a phase space translation symmetry, i.e. the Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill aka GKP, and codes that obey a rotation symmetry. Moreover, I will survey the impressive experimental progress on these codes. The second part of the talk I focus on single-mode codes that obey rotation symmetry in phase space, such as the the well known Cat and Binomial codes. I will introduce a universal scheme for this class of codes based only on simple and experimentally well-motivated interactions. The scheme is fault-tolerant in the sense that small errors are guaranteed to remain small under the considered gates. I will also introduce a fault-tolerant error correction scheme based on cross-Kerr interactions and imperfect destructive phase measurement (e.g., a marginal of heterodyne). Remarkably, the error correction scheme approaches the optimal recovery map for Cat and Binomial codes when the auxiliary modes are error free. We numerically compute break-even thresholds under loss and dephasing, with ideal auxiliary systems. If time permits I will discuss the search for optimized codes and progress towards genuine fault tolerance.
Joint work with Arne Grimsmo, USyd and Ben Baragiola, RMIT
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This talk explains the quantum supremacy milestone achieved by Google. TITLE: Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor SPEAKER: Prof Sergio Boixo AFFILIATION: Google Research, Los Angeles, USA HOSTED BY: Prof Michael Bremner, UTS Centre for Quantum Science and Information ABSTRACT: The promise of quantum computers is that certain computational tasks might be executed exponentially faster on a quantum processor than on a classical processor. A fundamental challenge is to build a high-fidelity processor capable of running quantum algorithms in an exponentially large computational space. Here we report the use of a processor with programmable superconducting qubits to create quantum states on 53 qubits, corresponding to a computational state-space of dimension 2^53 (about 10^16). Measurements from repeated experiments sample the resulting probability distribution, which we verify using classical simulations. Our Sycamore processor takes about 200 seconds to sample one instance of a quantum circuit a million times—our benchmarks currently indicate that the equivalent task for a state-of-the-art classical supercomputer would take approximately 10,000 years. This dramatic increase in speed compared to all known classical algorithms is an experimental realization of quantum supremacy for this specific computational task, heralding a much-anticipated computing paradigm.
During this time of lockdown, the centre for quantum software and information (QSI) at the University of Technology Sydney has launched an online seminar series. With talks once or twice a week from leading researchers in the field, meQuanics is supporting this series by mirroring the audio from each talk. I would encourage if you listen to this episode, to visit and subscribe to the UTS:QSI YouTube page to see each of these talks with the associated slides to help it make more sense.
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Q#, a quantum-focused domain-specific language explicitly designed to correctly, clearly and completely express quantum algorithms.
TITLE: Empowering Quantum Machine Learning Research with Q#
SPEAKER: Dr Christopher Granade
AFFILIATION: Quantum Systems, Microsoft, Washington, USA HOSTED BY: A/Prof Chris Ferrie, UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information
ABSTRACT: In this talk, I will demonstrate how the Q# quantum programming language can be used to start exploring quantum machine learning, using a binary classification problem as an example. I will describe recent work in QML algorithms for classification, and show how Q# allows implementing and using this classifier through high-level quantum development features. Finally, I will discuss how these approaches can be used as part of a reproducible research process to share your explorations with others.
During this time of lockdown, the centre for quantum software and information (QSI) at the University of Technology Sydney has launched an online seminar series. With talks once or twice a week from leading researchers in the field, meQuanics is supporting this series by mirroring the audio from each talk. I would encourage if you listen to this episode, to visit and subscribe to the UTS:QSI YouTube page to see each of these talks with the associated slides to help it make more sense.
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TITLE: Spooky complexity at a distance
SPEAKER: Prof Zhengfeng Ji
AFFILIATION: UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information, Sydney, Australia
HOSTED BY: Prof Sven Rogge, Centre for Quantum Computation & Communication Technology (CQC2T)
ABSTRACT: In this talk, I will discuss the recent result on the characterisation of the power of quantum multi-prover interactive proof systems, MIP*=RE. After a brief setup of the problem, we will highlight its rich connections and implications to problems in computer science, quantum physics, and mathematics, including the Tsirelson's problem and Connes' embedding problem. In the second half of the talk, we will outline the overall proof strategy and introduce several key techniques employed in the proof.
RELATED ARTICLES: MIP*=RE: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04383
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Building a bigger Hilbert space for superconducting devices, one Bloch state at a time.
TITLE: A new kind of qubit SPEAKER: Prof Tom Stace
AFFILIATION: School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland
HOSTED BY: A/Prof. Nathan Langford, UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information
ABSTRACT: Noise and errors have been the bottlenecks for building robust quantum machines. I will describe a proposed new class of superconducting devices that has built-in error rejection. Fundamentally, the encoding that facilitates this intrinsic robustness comes from the recognition that the Bloch band structure of these systems leads to a much bigger Hilbert spaces than has been traditionally considered. The extra space affords new qubit encodings, which I describe in two different instantiations.
OTHER LINKS: Prof Tom Stace University Profile - researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/1636
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A scalable tomography for fermonic systems.
TITLE: A Scalable Fermion Measurement SPEAKER: Dr Chris Jackson
AFFILIATION: Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQulC), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM | UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information, Sydney, Australia HOSTED BY: A/Prof. Chris Ferrie, UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information
ABSTRACT: Fermion systems have a Hilbert space dimension that scales exponentially in the number of modes. Standard tomography thus says that to completely measure an unknown state would require the measurement of exponentially many observables. However, if the parity of a fermion state is known, then there exists a nonadaptive, tomographically complete continuous measurement which only requires the isotropic measurement of quadratically many observables. The effects of the corresponding POVM are the well known superconducting Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) coherent states. The BCS coherent states define a manifold which can be used as a phase space to represent fermion quantum information. In this talk, I will introduce the BCS-coherent state POVM, explain the isotropic measurement which implements it, and discuss the geometry of the corresponding phase space.
OTHER LINKS: Centre for Quantum Information & Control: https://cquic.unm.edu/
During this time of lockdown, the centre for quantum software and information (QSI) at the University of Technology Sydney has launched an online seminar series. With talks once or twice a week from leading researchers in the field, meQuanics is supporting this series by mirroring the audio from each talk. I would encourage if you listen to this episode, to visit and subscribe to the UTS:QSI YouTube page to see each of these talks with the associated slides to help it make more sense.
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Cryptographic protocols for classical clients to verifiably delegate quantum computation to untrusted quantum servers - the desiderata and their feasibility.
TITLE: How well can a classical client delegate quantum computation?
SPEAKER: Dr Kai-Min Chung
AFFILIATION: Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
HOSTED BY: Prof Zhengfeng Ji, UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information
ABSTRACT: In a recent breakthrough, Mahadev (FOCS 2018) constructed the first classical verification of quantum computation (CVQC) protocol that allows a classical client to delegate the computation of a BQP language (i.e., a decision problem) to an efficient quantum server. In this talk, we present several generalizations of Mahadev’s work. In particular, we initiate the study of CVQC protocols for quantum sampling problems and construct the first such protocol that allows a classical client to verifiably obtain a sample drawn from a quantum computation from a quantum server. We also construct the first protocol with efficient verification, i.e., the client’s runtime can be sublinear in the quantum time complexity of the delegated computation. Finally, we present a generic compiler that compiles any CVQC protocol to achieve blindness, i.e., the server learns nothing about the client’s input, which leads to the first constant-round blind CVQC protocol. Based on joint works with Nai-Hui Chia, Takashi Yamakawa, Yi Lee, Han-Husan Lin, and Xiaodi Wu
REFERENCES: Classical Verification of Quantum Computations with Efficient Verifier: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.00990
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So you want to build a useful quantum computer… where to begin?!
TITLE: Building Google’s Quantum Computer
SPEAKER: Dr Marissa Giustina
AFFILIATION: Google AI Quantum, Google Research, CA, USA
HOSTED BY: A/Prof Nathan Langford, UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information
ABSTRACT: The Google AI Quantum team develops chip-based circuitry that one can interact with (control and read out) and which behaves reliably according to a simple quantum model. Such quantum hardware holds promise as a platform for tackling problems intractable to classical computing hardware. While the demonstration of a universal, fault-tolerant, quantum computer remains a goal for the future, it has informed the design of a prototype with which we have recently controlled a quantum system of unprecedented scale. This talk introduces Google’s quantum computing effort from both hardware and quantum-information perspectives, including an overview of recent technological developments and some recent results.
RELATED ARTICLES: Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor:
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SEMINAR 1
TITLE: Understanding Crosstalk in Quantum Processors
SPEAKER: A/Prof Robin Blume-Kohout
AFFILIATION: Quantum Performance Lab, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico
HOSTED BY: A/Prof Chris Ferrie, UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information
ABSTRACT: Multi-qubit quantum processors fail – i.e., deviate from ideal behavior – in many ways. One of the most important, especially as the number of qubits grows, is crosstalk. But “crosstalk” refers to a wide range of distinct phenomena. In this talk, I will present a precise and rigorous framework that we have developed for defining and classifying crosstalk errors, and compare it to existing ad hoc definitions. Then, I will present two protocols that we are deploying to detect and characterize crosstalk, and show how we are using them to break down and demystify the error behavior of testbed-class quantum processors in the wild.
SEMINAR 2
TITLE: Hold the onion: using fewer circuits to characterize your qubits
SPEAKER: Dr Erik Nielsen
AFFILIATION: Quantum Performance Lab, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico
HOSTED BY: A/Prof Chris Ferrie, UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information
ABSTRACT: Model-based quantum tomography protocols like gate set tomography optimize a noise model with some number of parameters in order to fit experimental data. As the number of qubits increases, two issues emerge: 1) the number of model parameters grows, and 2) the cost of propagating quantum states (density matrices) increases exponentially. The first issue can be addressed by considering reduced models that limit errors to being low-weight and geometrically local. In this talk, we focus on the second issue and present a method for performing approximate density matrix propagation based on perturbative expansions of error generators. The method is tailored to the likelihood optimization problem faced by model-based tomography protocols. We will discuss the advantages and drawbacks of using this method when characterizing the errors in up to 8-qubit systems.
During this time of lockdown, the centre for quantum software and information (QSI) at the University of Technology Sydney has launched an online seminar series. With talks once or twice a week from leading researchers in the field, meQuanics is supporting this series by mirroring the audio from each talk. I would encourage if you listen to this episode, to visit and subscribe to the UTS:QSI YouTube page to see each of these talks with the associated slides to help it make more sense.
Building better deep learning representations for quantum mixed states by adding quantum layers to classical probabilistic models.
TITLE: Quantum-probabilistic Generative Models and Variational Quantum Thermalization
SPEAKER: Guillaume Verdon
AFFILIATION: X (formerly Google X), California, USA
HOSTED BY: A/Prof. Chris Ferrie, Centre for Quantum Software and Information
ABSTRACT: We introduce a new class of generative quantum-neural-network-based models called Quantum Hamiltonian-Based Models (QHBMs). In doing so, we establish a paradigmatic approach for quantum-probabilistic hybrid variational learning of quantum mixed states, where we efficiently decompose the tasks of learning classical and quantum correlations in a way which maximizes the utility of both classical and quantum processors. In addition, we introduce the Variational Quantum Thermalizer (VQT) algorithm for generating the thermal state of a given Hamiltonian and target temperature, a task for which QHBMs are naturally well-suited. The VQT can be seen as a generalization of the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) to thermal states: we show that the VQT converges to the VQE in the zero temperature limit. We provide numerical results demonstrating the efficacy of these techniques in several illustrative examples. In addition to the introduction to the theory and applications behind these models, we will briefly walk through their numerical implementation in TensorFlow Quantum.
RELATED ARTICLES: Quantum Hamiltonian-Based Models and the Variational Quantum Thermalizer Algorithm: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02071
TensorFlow Quantum: A Software Framework for Quantum Machine Learning: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02989
OTHER LINKS: X: https://x.company/
During this time of lockdown, the centre for quantum software and information (QSI) at the University of Technology Sydney has launched an online seminar series. With talks once or twice a week from leading researchers in the field, meQuanics is supporting this series by mirroring the audio from each talk with an exclusive 10min interview with each of our presenters. I would encourage if you listen to this episode, to visit and subscribe to the UTS:QSI YouTube page to see each of these talks with the associated slides to help it make more sense. Click the link below to see the talk uploaded to the meQuanics podcast from Daniel Grier from the University of Waterloo and the Institute for Quantum Computing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El7JAmvUQ1U
During this time of lockdown, the centre for quantum software and information (QSI) at the University of Technology Sydney has launched an online seminar series. With talks once or twice a week from leading researchers in the field, meQuanics is supporting this series by mirroring the audio from each talk with an exclusive 10min interview with each of our presenters. I would encourage if you listen to this episode, to visit and subscribe to the UTS:QSI YouTube page to see each of these talks with the associated slides to help it make more sense. Click the link below to see the talk uploaded to the meQuanics podcast from Maria Schuld from Xanadu and the University of Kwazulu Natal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKdFNJtTeeA
During this time of lockdown, the centre for quantum software and information (QSI) at the University of Technology Sydney has launched an online seminar series. With talks once or twice a week from leading researchers in the field, meQuanics is supporting this series by mirroring the audio from each talk with an exclusive 10min interview with each of our presenters. I would encourage if you listen to this episode, to visit and subscribe to the UTS:QSI YouTube page to see each of these talks with the associated slides to help it make more sense. Click the link below to see the talk uploaded to the meQuanics podcast from Nathan Wiebe of the University of Washington and Pacific Northwest National Labs (PNNL).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1NU9DBh2t8
We are back to a regular podcast episode today and I'm pleased to have on John Prisco, CEO of QKD company Quantum Xchange. Don't forget to subscribe to meQuanics on iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/meet-the-mequanics-quantum-computing-discussions/id1099431495 and Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2kTZo3n50UTNd49AhVMBjV?si=HihM95RSQ7u-0VuUP_hbag And keep up to date by following us on twitter https://www.twitter.com/mequanics
During this time of lockdown, the centre for quantum software and information (QSI) at the University of Technology Sydney has launched an online seminar series. With talks once or twice a week from leading researchers in the field, meQuanics is supporting this series by mirroring the audio from each talk with an exclusive 10min interview with each of our presenters. I would encourage if you listen to this episode, to visit and subscribe to the UTS:QSI YouTube page to see each of these talks with the associated slides to help it make more sense. Click the link below to see the talk uploaded to the meQuanics podcast from yours truely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcCdRXiPQow&t=4s
During this time of lockdown, the centre for quantum software and information (QSI) at the University of Technology Sydney has launched an online seminar series. With talks once or twice a week from leading researchers in the field, meQuanics is supporting this series by mirroring the audio from each talk with an exclusive 10min interview with each of our presenters. I would encourage if you listen to this episode, to visit and subscribe to the UTS:QSI YouTube page to see each of these talks with the associated slides to help it make more sense. Click the link below to see the talk uploaded to the meQuanics podcast from Chris Ferrie, Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfY7lFIBTGY
During this time of lockdown, the centre for quantum software and information (QSI) at the University of Technology Sydney has launched an online seminar series. With talks once or twice a week from leading researchers in the field, meQuanics is supporting this series by mirroring the audio from each talk with an exclusive 10min interview with each of our presenters. I would encourage if you listen to this episode, to visit and subscribe to the UTS:QSI YouTube page to see each of these talks with the associated slides to help it make more sense. Click the link below to see the talk uploaded to the meQuanics podcast from Joe Fitzsimons from Horizon Quantum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91WiWtruHZU&t=4s
During this time of lockdown, the centre for quantum software and information (QSI) at the University of Technology Sydney has launched an online seminar series. With talks once or twice a week from leading researchers in the field, meQuanics is supporting this series by mirroring the audio from each talk with an exclusive 10min interview with each of our presenters. I would encourage if you listen to this episode, to visit and subscribe to the UTS:QSI YouTube page to see each of these talks with the associated slides to help it make more sense. Click the link below to see the first talk uploaded to the meQuanics podcast from Yvonne Gao from the National University of Singapore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z03OEoxKAVM
I'm very pleased today to have on the podcast, Dr. Robert Sutor, Vice President of Quantum Ecosystem Development at IBM. Robert has just released a new book "Dancing with Qubits: How quantum computing works and how it can change the world", and he has joined me today to discuss it, his evolution into the world of quantum technology and the work being done by IBM in establishing and growing their IBMQ network.
Please check out the book https://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Qubits-quantum-computing-change/dp/1838827366
And follow Robert on twitter https://twitter.com/snarky_android
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For our first episode of the year, I'm delighted to be joined by Jeff Cohen. President and founder of Chicago Quantum, a consultancy firm that sits at the intersection of quantum technology and the financial sector. We have a chat about what Chicago Quantum is up to and what motivated Jeff to get into the Quantum game.
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I'm very pleased to be joined by Dr. Mercedes Gimeno-Segovia, director of quantum architectures at the photonics based startup, PsiQuantum. Mercedes has recently published a book on how to programming quantum computers, and joins me today to have a chat about what motivated her to complete such a lengthy piece of work and what she hopes the broader community will get out of it.
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Check out Mercedes book http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920167433.do https://www.amazon.com/_/dp/1492039683?tag=oreilly20-20\
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I'm delighted to be joined today by Dr. Sabine Hossenfelder. A traveller from the field of cosmology and quantum gravity research, Sabine authored a widely read article for the Guardian and a subsequent popular Youtube video regarding quantum computing and the goal of reaching quantum supremacy.
We speak about Sabines interests and criticisms of the both the quantum computing community and the high energy community, her popular book, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray and what she thought of the recent announcement from Google claiming to have achieved quantum supremacy with their superconducting platform.
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And check out both her article in the Guardian and YouTube video https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/02/quantum-supremacy-computers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKnfVA1v5ow
Today, a major result in Quantum Computing was published in Nature. Google has reported its achievement of Quantum Supremacy, the term given to the point where a quantum processor can outperform any classical supercomputer at a specific task.
The theoretical backbone of Google's quantum supremacy protocol has been developed over many many years. In this episode of the podcast we are joined by researchers who have been intimately involved in the development of these computational protocols.
Joining us today is Ashley Montenaro from the University of Bristol, Michael Bremner from the University of Technology Sydney and Ryan Mann from the University of Bristol. We discuss the evolution of the theoretical work that has underpinned the Google experiment, the result itself and what hopefully comes next.
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Very happy today to have a chat with Dr. Peter Rohde, ARC future fellow at the centre for quantum software and information at the University of Technology Sydney. Today we discuss his work in photonic quantum computing and communications and his latest work in the geo-strategic issues for quantum technology and the entanglement economy.
Peter will be giving a tech talk at TEDxNewtown this November, check it out https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/34755
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Joining us today is Dr. Sarah Kaiser, a former academic and now at Pensar Development. Sarah chats with me about her new book on python and Q# and her involvement in the development community for quantum software.
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Check out the links to Dr. Kaiser's work
My twitter: https://twitter.com/crazy4pi314
Q# Community: https://qsharp.community/
Baby University books: https://www.amazon.com/Sarah-Kaiser/e/B07H4VDXW5?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=sckaiser-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=23286605be85b82edba09098bc7742d3&camp=1789&creative=9325
In June 2017, Blueyard capital and Google Quantum AI hosted an event in Munich, Germany for a discussion amongst investors, corporations, start-ups and academics regarding the current state and future of quantum computing. During this day long event there were several panel discussions on various aspects of quantum computing. Blueyard has graciously agreed to release these discussions as part of the podcast. We are very thankful to them and hope you enjoy it.
To see the recorded videos of the day long meeting, please head to blueyard's Youtube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UCyyqAy3PMYukAglqrGtbgLw
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and on Medium medium.com/@BlueYard
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In June 2017, Blueyard capital and Google Quantum AI hosted an event in Munich, Germany for a discussion amongst investors, corporations, start-ups and academics regarding the current state and future of quantum computing. During this day long event there were several panel discussions on various aspects of quantum computing. Blueyard has graciously agreed to release these discussions as part of the podcast. We are very thankful to them and hope you enjoy it.
To see the recorded videos of the day long meeting, please head to blueyard's Youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyyqAy3PMYukAglqrGtbgLw
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Today in a very gracious manner, Dr. Nana Liu from Singapore has taken over hosting duties for the podcast. While in Berlin, she caught up with Rod Van Meter who was a previous guest early on in the podcast. Rod has recently been appointed vice chair of the Keio university quantum computing centre, which is one of the hubs for the IBMQ network. They sit down for a pleasant little outside chat.
Follow rod on twitter www.twitter.com/rdviii
and check out the KQCC website https://quantum.keio.ac.jp
and Rod's online course on quantum computing https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/intro-to-quantum-computing
In June 2017, Blueyard capital and Google Quantum AI hosted an event in Munich, Germany for a discussion amongst investors, corporations, start-ups and academics regarding the current state and future of quantum computing. During this day long event there were several panel discussions on various aspects of quantum computing. Blueyard has graciously agreed to release these discussions as part of the podcast. We are very thankful to them and hope you enjoy it.
To see the recorded videos of the day long meeting, please head to blueyard's Youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyyqAy3PMYukAglqrGtbgLw
Check them out on Twitter https://www.twitter.com/blueyard
and on Medium https://medium.com/@BlueYard
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I'm very pleased that today we have on William Hurley (whurley), the CEO of a new quantum startup called Strangeworks and notable quantum book author. We had a great chat today about the newly forming quantum industry and whurleys take on in coming from a non-quantum (but a heavy startup) background.
Check out strangeworks http://www.strangeworks.com
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From July 16th to 20th 2018 at the University of Technology, Sydney the centre Quantum Software and Information hosted the 13th Annual conference on the theory of quantum computation, communication and cryptography (TQC) and the 1st international workshop on quantum software and quantum machine learning (QSML). On the last night of TQC an industry session was hosted and a lengthy discussion between the panelists and the audience took place. This is that discussion.
On the panel we were delighted to have Michael Hush - Q-CTRL Maria Schuld - Xanadu Dave Bacon - Google Chris Granade - Microsoft Nick Rubin - Rigetti
The audience was not miked up, so I have re-recorded and paraphrased the questions being asked
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I'm pleased today to have Dr. Dominic Horsman from the University of Grenoble with me today to chat about his evolution from the study of quantum foundations to practical, large-scale quantum computing.
Check out Dominics homepage https://quantum.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/fostering-the-ecosystem/our-chairs-of-excellence/quantum-computing/horsman-dominic-734445.htm
Follow him on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/qudit.
and check out Craig Gidney's blog post that was mentioned. http://algassert.com/post/1806
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I'm delighted today to have Prof. Michael Biercuk, founder and CEO and Dr. Michael Hush, lead quantum control engineer on the podcast to discuss their work at a new startup, Q-CTRL. They chat about the scope and work they are performing and how they are throwing their hat into the ring amongst the new group of quantum technology startups.
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I'm happy to have Dr. Will Zeng on the podcast today. Will is the head of quantum cloud services at Rigetti Computing and talks with me today about the hardware being developed at Rigetti and the software platforms and framework that is being developed to support their quantum computing platform.
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www.rigetti.com
Today I am pleased to have Prof. Simon Benjamin from the Networked Quantum Information Technology hub (NQIT) at the university of Oxford. We chat about what makes scalable quantum computers scalable and what are some of the challenges moving forward in achieving large scale quantum computing.
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We are delighted to have a two guests today to give us a field report from the latest instance of the Quantum Information Processing conference (QIP) held at Tu-Delft in the Netherlands. Joschka Roffe is a Ph.D student at Durham university in the U.K. and Padraic Calpin is a Ph.D student at the centre for doctoral training in delivering quantum technologies at University college, London. We chat about their research, the topics discussed at #QIP2018 and how quantum technology is developing as a research field and an industry.
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In this episode we speak to Guillaume Verdon of the University of Waterloo and the Perimeter institute to discuss his research into quantum machine learning and get a field report from the recent ThinkQ conference hosted by IBM in New York state. We discuss quantum algorithms and the current research effort to find interesting and or practical applications for quantum computing that are small enough to not require resource intensive error correction protocols
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and check out the talks from the IBM ThinkQ conference https://www.youtube.com/user/IBMLabs/videos
I am pleased to be joined today by Dr. Nana Liu from the National University of Singapore and Singapore University of Technology and Design to have a chat about this weeks Heidelberg Laureate Forum and her work in quantum technology development. Dr. Liu has been live tweeting and blogging about her discussions and experiences at the forum, where young researchers meet some of the best minds in science.
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Check out Dr. Liu's twitter account https://twitter.com/Nana__Liu
And her blogging from the forum https://scilogs.spektrum.de/hlf/author/nanaliu/
We are delighted to be joined today by Philipp Banhardt from Blueyard Capital and Alan Ho from Google in a live podcast from Google's offices in Munich to recap the recent quantum leap meeting organized by Blueyard and Google which brought together academics, industry representatives, quantum startups and venture capital people to discuss the current status and future challenges in creating a new industry sector based on quantum technology
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New Scientist article mentioned https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23130894-000-revealed-googles-plan-for-quantum-computer-supremacy/
We are pleased to have Dr. Chris Granade from the University of Sydney and the ARC centre of Excellence in Engineered Quantum Systems joining us today to chat about his work in quantum control and statistical modelling as well as his work practising and promoting both open science research and reproducible research. Please check out the links below for more of Chris's work.
Chris Granade on Twitter https://www.twitter.com/cgranade
His website and blog http://www.cgranade.com
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Check out the meeting sponsored by bluebird capital and Google A.I. in Munich 22nd of June. Contact us or Blueyard for details https://medium.com/@BlueYard/join-us-on-june-22nd-for-a-quantum-leap-fa7b5aa61cc6
We are delighted to be joined today by Joseph Fitzsimonds from Singapore University of Technology and Design and from the Centre for Quantum Technology at the National University of Singapore. Joseph has been a leader in the field of cryptography and quantum computing and developed the protocols for secure "Blind" quantum computing. Please check out the links below to his lab and work.
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And check out his Lab website http://jfitzsimons.org
TyQI workshop http://www.tyqi.org/2017/
Also check out the announcement of BLueYard capital quantum industry event on the 22nd of June 2017 in Munich, https://medium.com/@BlueYard/join-us-on-june-22nd-for-a-quantum-leap-fa7b5aa61cc6
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After a bit of a break because of my move from Japan back to Australia, we are lucky enough to be joined by Chris Ferrie from the centre for quantum software and information at the University of Technology, Sydney. Not only is Chris involved in cutting edge research in quantum technology, but he is a notable author of childrens books focused on physics! Check out the links below
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and be sure to look at and buy Chris' wonderful children's books on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Chris-Ferrie/e/B00IZILZR6/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1
Today on the podcast we have another field report from the recent APS march meeting in New Orleans. Zlatko Minev from Yale chats about the topics and talks that interest him.
Zlatko is also the founder of open labs. So go and check it out! Website: theOpenLabs.org Contact: zlatko.minev@yale.edu or zminev@gmail.com Chapters: Yale, Penn, Princeton, Columbia, Harvard
Career development through APS: CCPD - Committee on Careers & Professional Development (contact: Crystal Bailey) FGSA - Forum on Graduate and Student Affairs https://www.aps.org/units/fgsa/careers/
Excellent workshop given by Peter Fiske, and a webinar coming up. Peter's book is title: "Put Your Science To Work: The Take-Charge Career Guide for Scientists," by Peter Fiske, Ph.D.
We are joined today by Daniel Herr who is a Ph.D student at ETH Zurich and who works with me at Riken in Tokyo. Daniel is currently attending the annual APS March meeting in New Orleans. The APS March meeting is the largest gathering of physicists worldwide and Daniel is giving us our second quantum field report.
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In this episode of meet the meQuanics we are pleased to have Dr. Earl Campbell from the university of Sheffield. His work is deeply related to how an error-corrected quantum computer will be build, programmed, benchmarked and optimised and we are happy to have Dr. Campbell on to talk about his interesting research.
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In this episode of meet the meQuanics, we are joined by Prof. Jungsang Kim from Duke University in the US. Prof. Kim is also the co-founder of ionQ, a new start up developing ion trap quantum computing technology. Prof. Kim will have a chat about his work, his tech and the future of private sector investment in quantum technology.
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today we try something new on meet the meQuanics. This week, in Seattle is the 20th edition of the Quantum Information Processing (QIP) conference series, one of the major quantum technology conferences worldwide. Live tweeting a conference has become more and more common and to try something new we have enlisted one of those live tweeters to come on the podcast to give us a bit of a look at the kind of things being discussed. We are very pleased that Zachary Eldredge from the University of Maryland gave us some of his time to come on the show and discuss some of the talks that he has found interesting. Hopefully we will get another update from him later in the week for the rest of the talks at QIP and we will see how this goes and maybe the meet the meQuanics field reports will become a regular part of the show.
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and the conference program https://stationq.microsoft.com/qip-2017-conference-schedule/
We are pleased to have Dr. Nicolas Menicucci from RMIT university and the Australian Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computing and Communications Technology join us today for the first chat of the new year. Nicolas has been one of the leading theorists for optically based quantum technologies and he talks about the benefits and challenges of this type of quantum computer.
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Optical Generation of cluster states https://arxiv.org/pdf/1306.3366.pdf
For our next episode, I am please to be joined by Sabrina Maniscalco from the University of Turku in Finland. Aside from her work in quantum physics and quantum technology, Sabrina has been one of the pioneers in games related to quantum computing and quantum physics. We will have a chat about citizen science for quantum technology and her efforts in co-ordinating the worldwide quantum game jam.
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We are please to be joined on this episode by Prof. Jacob Biamonte of the University of Malta. Jacob heads the Quamplexity group at the university of Malta and has regularly published on a vast array of topics in quantum mechanics, quantum computing and complex systems. He is also actively engaged in social media interaction with the broader scientific community.
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In this episode we will be joined by Prof. Andrew Doherty, Professor of physics at the University of Sydney and Deputy Director of the ARC center of Excellence in Engineered Quantum Systems. Andrew will be here to discuss his research, the broader efforts at Sydnet University and the next stage of developments for EQUS.
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On the 1st of November we will officially launch h-bar: Quantum Consultants. Myself, together with Prof. Jared Cole are pleased to create the worlds first consultancy firm specialising in the area of active quantum technology. In this episode of meet the meQuanics, which is now proudly hosted by h-bar, Prof. Cole will join me to have a chat about h-bar, what we are tying to set up and how an effort like this can fit into the broader space for private and public sector funding on quantum technology
Our new website is at www.h-bar.com.au
and our new twitter account for h-bar can be found at www.twitter/hbar_consultant
Happy to announce our next episode of meet the meQuanics will be with Dr. Nathan Wiebe from Microsoft research. Nathan will chat to us about the core research happening at Redmond related to quantum software and quantum algorithms.
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We are pleased to be joined today by Andrew Fursman, CEO and co-founder of the quantum software company 1Qbit. Andrew was kind enough to spend nearly an hour talking about the history of 1Qbit, what they are attempting to do in the private sector space for quantum technology and how quantum is slowly moving into the commercial space as a revolutionary new form of information processing technology.
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We are glad to have Daniel Oi from the university of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland for our next episode of meet the meQuanics. Daniel will have a chat about his work in quantum system characterisation and his recent work with researchers in Singapore in launching the first quantum technology into space.
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We are please have to have Dr. Damian Markham as this weeks guest. Damian is a permanent researcher for the french agency CNRS and a staff member at ParsTech. He is also a founding member of the Paris center for quantum computing. Please join us live or download our discuss later. Subscribe to us on
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We are happy to announce our next episode will be with Dr. Tom Wong of the UT Algorithms and Computational Theory Group at the University of Texas at Austin. Tom has been working at the forefront of quantum information theory and he will chat to us about his exciting research and the newly formed effort at UT-Austin in Quantum Computing, Algorithms and Complexity theory
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For our episode this week, We have two guests. Andrew Cross and Lev Bishop from IBM research will be joining us to discuss their work in quantum computing and have a chat about their technology. We will have a chat about the IBM quantum experience, one of the first cloud based quantum computing processors that you can all play with.
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Happy to announce our next episode of meet the meQuanics. This week, we are joined by Prof. Andrea Morello from the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Prof. Morello is a pioneering researcher in silicon quantum technology and he will talk about his tech, the development of quantum technology in australia and what will happen soon! Please join in or listen to us online
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Our next episode will be with A/Prof. Tom Stace of the University of Queensland and the Australian Research Councils Center of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQuS). Tom will talk about how how quantum technologies extend beyond quantum computing, and can have a real impact on the next generation of technology.
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This weeks episode is another offline discussion. Jake Taylor from the University of Maryland and NIST in the US has been visiting Tokyo for a couple of months and we got a chance to sit and talk quantum over coffee. Hope you enjoy the show.
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This weeks episode of meet the meQuanics will be with Dr. James Wootton, researcher at the University of Basel and creator of another quantum game based around topological quantum computing, called Decodoku. This livestream will coincide with the launch of Dr. Wootten's game are we are glad to have him on.
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I'm happy to announce this next episode of QxBranch will be with Michael Brett, CEO of the quantum software company QxBranch. We will discuss the efforts in the private sector to help commercialise and realise large scale quantum technology.
Disclaimer: I am personally a scientific advisor to QxBranch
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On our next episode of meet the meQuanics we are please to have Prof. Stephanie Wehner from TU Delft in the netherlands. Prof. Wehner is part of a large effort to construct both the hardware and software for large-scale quantum computers and communications systems. We will be chatting with her about the specific development at Delft and the larger effort in the EU towards large-scale quantum technology. Please subscribe to us here and on iTunes and Soundcloud
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In this weeks episode we were lucky enough to sit down with Prof. Seth Lloyd from MIT who was in Japan touring and talking at several universities. Prof. Lloyd has been one of the pioneers in quantum technology and has been actively involved in this field since the early 1990's. He talks with us today about how he got into quantum information, where he sees the current state of the field and where it is going.
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We are pleased to have Prof. Michael Biercuk from the University of Sydney joining us on meet the meQuanics. Prof. Biercuk is at the experimental forefront of quantum computing development in Australia and will no doubt talk to us about the exciting development occurring in Sydney and Australia on scalable quantum technology.
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We are pleased to announce the next episode of meet the meQuanics will be held at 21:30 (GMT+2) with Prof. Jacob Sherson from Aarhus University in Denmark. Jacob will talk to us about his quantum game, called "quantum moves" and the development of scientific gaming in Denmark. Please join us live and subscribe to us on soundcloud and iTunes
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At the Banff conference on quantum computing, Prof. Anne Broadbend was happy to sit down with me to have a brief chat about her role in the emerging field of quantum information technology
We are pleased to have Dr. Krysta Svore, head of the QuArC group at Microsoft research as our 6th guest of meet the meQuanics. Please tune in live or subscribe to us on soundcloud or iTunes.
The background on this video will be much nicer as I am at www.birs.ca. Such a loverly place to work.
Apologies for the audio quality on my end, filming outside to get the nice mountain view comes at a cost. I have tried to clean up the audio as much as possible. Apologies again.
Videos for the Banff Conference: http://www.birs.ca/events/2016/5-day-workshops/16w5029
Microsoft QuArC group: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/quarc/
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We are pleased to announce our next livestream of "meet the meQuanics". Our guest this week will be associate professor Jared Cole of RMIT University in Melbourne. We will discuss his work on superconducting quantum technology and how it relates to our understanding of active quantum devices. Please tune in or subscribe on soundcloud and/or iTunes
Homepage for Prof. Cole: http://tcqp.science/
We are happy to schedule the next live event. Dr. Mark Everitt from Loughborough University in the U.K. will join us to talk about some of the more foundational issues with quantum physics. Join us to hear about what this "spooky" theory could actually mean.
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Quantum Systems Engineering group at Loughborough University http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/quantum-systems/
Lectures mentioned by mark http://www.quiprocone.org/Protected/DD_lectures.htm
Dr. Rod Van Meter will join us from Keio University to discuss his work in connecting the quantum and classical world. Please tune in.
Apologies for the quality of the audio about halfway through. We've tried to clean it up as much as possible.
Please also help us on kickstarter to develop meQuanics
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The AQuA group: http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~rdv/
as part of the meQuanics kickstarter campaign it is our pleasure to host a live-stream with the experts building actual quantum computers. Our second is with Dr. Austin Fowler, a quantum electronics engineer with Google inc. Please support our kickstarter,
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as part of the meQuanics kickstarter campaign it is our pleasure to host a discussion with the experts building actual quantum computers. Our first is with the director of the center for quantum photonics at the University of Bristol (@cqpbristol) , Prof. Jeremy O'Brien. Please support our kickstarter,
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CQP website: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/physics/rese... Quantum in the cloud: https://cnotmz.appspot.com