Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS March Meeting 2018
Volume 63, Number 1
Monday–Friday, March 5–9, 2018; Los Angeles, California
Session L58: Near-Term Quantum Computing PlatformsInvited
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Sponsoring Units: DQI Chair: Jerry Chow, IBM T J Watson Res Ctr Room: LACC Petree Hall C |
Wednesday, March 7, 2018 11:15AM - 11:51AM |
L58.00001: Software libraries and applications for near-term quantum computers Invited Speaker: Martin Roetteler I present ongoing work on software libraries and their use for resource estimation. Examples include quantum circuits for Shor’s algorithm for factoring integers and for computing discrete logarithms on elliptic curves over prime fields. These are implemented and tested in a quantum programming framework. |
Wednesday, March 7, 2018 11:51AM - 12:27PM |
L58.00002: OpenFermion: the Electronic Structure Package for Quantum Computers Invited Speaker: Ryan Babbush Quantum simulation of chemistry and materials is a key application of quantum computing. However, developing and studying algorithms for these problems can be difficult due to the prohibitive amount of domain knowledge required. To help bridge this gap and open the field to more researchers, we have developed the OpenFermion software package (www.openfermion.org). OpenFermion is an open-source software library written in Python under an Apache 2 license, aimed at enabling the simulation of fermionic models and quantum chemistry problems on quantum hardware. Beginning with an interface to common electronic structure packages, it simplifies the translation between a molecular specification and a quantum circuit for solving or studying the electronic structure problem on a quantum computer, minimizing the amount of domain expertise required to enter the field. The package is designed to be extensible and robust, maintaining high software standards in documentation and testing. This talk outlines the key motivations for design choices in OpenFermion and discusses basic functionality available for the initial release of the package, which we believe will aid the community in the development of better quantum algorithms and tools for this exciting area. |
Wednesday, March 7, 2018 12:27PM - 1:03PM |
L58.00003: The IBM Q experience and QISKit open-source quantum computing software Invited Speaker: Andrew Cross The IBM Q experience is a cloud-based quantum computing system that was made publicly available in the summer of 2016. Since then, more than 60,000 users across all seven continents have run over 1.7 million remote experiments on IBM’s superconducting transmon devices and online simulators. Students and educators have successfully incorporated the IBM Q experience into classroom and summer school curricula. Researchers have used the system to investigate quantum computing, error correction, and validation techniques and metrics. In this talk, I will discuss the most recent developments around the IBM Q experience and QISKit open-source software for quantum computing. |
Wednesday, March 7, 2018 1:03PM - 1:39PM |
L58.00004: Quantum programming tutorials and benchmarking of near-term devices using games Invited Speaker: James Wootton Many interesting algorithms have been designed for large scale fault-tolerant quantum computers. However, most will not be suitable for the smaller and noisier devices of the next decade. To understand how these devices function, we must therefore design applications specifically for their capabilities. |
Wednesday, March 7, 2018 1:39PM - 2:15PM |
L58.00005: Reconfigurable and Programmable Ion Trap Quantum Computer Invited Speaker: David Moehring We present progress on the operation of quantum computers built with trapped atomic ion qubits. Based on the technological underpinnings of atomic clocks that define time, atomic qubits are standards of quantum information because they are all identical. They present a fundamentally scalable approach to quantum computation where interactions can be faithfully replicated and measured with near-perfect efficiency. Unlike many other approaches to quantum hardware, trapped ion qubits operate effectively at room-temperature, and even allow for fully reconfigurable quantum circuits, much like an FPGA in classical computation. This flexibility will likely allow ion trap quantum computers to express the superset of all known quantum computation operations, and thus efficiently target any type of application that arises. |
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