Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS March Meeting 2023
Volume 68, Number 3
Las Vegas, Nevada (March 5-10)
Virtual (March 20-22); Time Zone: Pacific Time
Session N51: Commercial Applications of Quantum ComputingIndustrial Invited Undergrad Friendly
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Sponsoring Units: FIAP Chair: Abram Falk, IBM TJ Watson Research Center Room: Room 321 |
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 11:30AM - 12:06PM |
N51.00001: Quantum Computing and Quantum Communications in the Financial Industry Invited Speaker: Marco Pistoia Finance has been identified as the first industry sector to benefit from quantum computing, due to its abundance of use cases with exponential complexity and the fact that, in finance, time is of the essence, which makes the case for solutions to be computed with high accuracy in real time. Typical use cases in finance that lend themselves to quantum computing are portfolio optimization, derivative pricing, risk analysis, and several problems in the realm of machine learning, such as fraud detection and extractive text summarization. |
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 12:06PM - 12:42PM |
N51.00002: Closing in On Practical Quantum Advantage Invited Speaker: Alejandro Perdomo-Ortiz After the recent results on quantum computational advantage with random quantum circuits, practical quantum advantage is the next most sought-after milestone. We define practical quantum advantage as a demonstration where a quantum or quantum-assisted model is able to solve a valuable academic or industry-relevant problem faster, better, or more cost-efficiently than any classical algorithm. Besides quantum chemistry, where a more explicit path is laid out for achieving quantum advantage, machine learning (ML) and combinatorial optimization problems (COP) stand out as key candidates. Despite all the efforts, there is still no demonstration of quantum advantage for practical and industrial applications in ML and COP. |
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 12:42PM - 1:18PM |
N51.00003: Quantinuum's H-series Quantum Computers Invited Speaker: Brian Neyenhuis Quantinuum's H-series Quantum Computers use a fully reconfigurable array of trapped atomic-ions to provide universal quantum computation with high-fidelity operations, arbitrary connectivity, and mid-circuit measurement. I will give an overview of how submitted circuits are translated through our software stack from OpenQASM all the way down to the control signals that move the ions around the trap and control the laser pulses that perform quantum gates. I will also go over our native gate set, current specs, upcoming features, and a long-range outlook. |
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 1:18PM - 1:54PM |
N51.00004: The path to quantum advantage with error mitigation Invited Speaker: Sarah Sheldon The proven speedups of canonical quantum algorithms like factoring and phase estimation over their classical counterparts has motivated work towards realizing quantum computers. To achieve these speedups we need fault tolerance, which is beyond the capabilities of today’s quantum hardware. At the same time state-of-the-art noisy quantum systems are approaching a scale and quality that is hard to simulate classically. This begs the question: is there anything we can do before fault tolerance? This talk will describe a path to studying interesting problems on near-term quantum devices through error suppression and error mitigation techniques. We demonstrate these noise reduction techniques on IBM Quantum systems and show how they enable increasingly complex circuits with improvements in hardware and software. |
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 1:54PM - 2:30PM |
N51.00005: Promising Quantum Computing Applications in Aerospace Invited Speaker: Richard J Thompson Quantum computing has received significant attention recently, and new breakthroughs have recently permitted operational devices to demonstrate functionality. Unlike classical devices, quantum computers leverage quantum-mechanical properties of superposition, entanglement and interference to permit new algorithms to be constructed that may provide significant speed-ups over existing classical approaches for key problems. Near-term devices are characterized as noisy, intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices, for which several hybrid classical/quantum algorithms, such as variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) and quantum alternating-operator ansatz (QAOA), have been introduced to take advantage of near-term systems. |
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