Quantum Annealing and Optimization I

Presentations

• Toward integration of Kerr-nonlinear parametric oscillators for adiabatic quantum computation with Lechner-Hauke-Zoller scheme

  ORAL

  March 3, 2020, 4:30 PM – March 3, 2020, 4:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Taro Kanao

    Toshiba Corp

  Authors

  • Taro Kanao

    Toshiba Corp

  • Hayato Goto

    Toshiba Corp

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• Long range coupling through a chain of RF-SQUIDs for superconducting flux qubit quantum annealers

  ORAL

  March 3, 2020, 4:42 PM – March 3, 2020, 4:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Antonio Javier Martinez

    University of Waterloo

  Authors

  • Antonio Javier Martinez

    University of Waterloo

  • Daniel M Tennant

    University of Waterloo

  • Xi Dai

    University of Waterloo

  • Denis Melanson

    University of Waterloo

  • Ali Yurtalan

    University of Waterloo

  • Salil Bedkihal

    University of Waterloo

  • Edward Tang

    University of Waterloo

  • Alexander Melville

    MIT Lincoln Laboratory, MIT Lincoln Lab, MIT Lincoln Laboratories, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory

  • Bethany M Niedzielski

    MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Rabindra Das

    MIT Lincoln Laboratory, MIT Lincoln Laboratories

  • David K Kim

    MIT Lincoln Laboratory, MIT Lincoln Lab, MIT-Lincoln Lab, MIT Lincoln Laboratories, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory

  • Jonilyn Yoder

    MIT Lincoln Laboratory, MIT-Lincoln Lab, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MIT Lincoln Lab

  • Steven Weber

    MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Andrew James Kerman

    MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Sergey Novikov

    Northrop Grumman, Northrop Grumman - Mission Systems, Northrop Grumman Corporation

  • Steven M Disseler

    Northrop Grumman, Northrop Grumman - Mission Systems, Northrop Grumman Corporation

  • James I Basham

    Northrop Grumman, Northrop Grumman - Mission Systems, Northrop Grumman Corporation

  • Jeffrey Grover

    Northrop Grumman, Northrop Grumman - Mission Systems, Northrop Grumman Corporation

  • Evgeny Mozgunov

    University of Southern California, Viterbi school of engineering, University of Southern California

  • Daniel A Lidar

    University of Southern California, Univ of Southern California, 5. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA

  • Adrian Lupascu

    University of Waterloo

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• Finding optimized anneal paths in capacitively shunted flux qubits

  ORAL

  March 3, 2020, 4:54 PM – March 3, 2020, 5:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Mostafa Khezri

    Univ of Southern California

  Authors

  • Mostafa Khezri

    Univ of Southern California

  • Jeffery Grover

    Northrop Grumman

  • Daniel A Lidar

    University of Southern California, Univ of Southern California, 5. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA

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• Quantum annealing with spin lock technique

  ORAL

  March 3, 2020, 5:06 PM – March 3, 2020, 5:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Hideaki Hakoshima

    National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

  Authors

  • Hideaki Hakoshima

    National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

  • Yuichiro Matsuzaki

    National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Nanoelectronics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

  • Yuya Seki

    Nanoelectronics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

  • Shiro Kawabata

    Nanoelectronics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

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• Assessing the potential of Rydberg atoms for adiabatic quantum computing of an NP-hard problem

  ORAL

  March 3, 2020, 5:18 PM – March 3, 2020, 5:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Bertrand Marchand

    Atos Quantum Lab

  Authors

  • Bertrand Marchand

    Atos Quantum Lab

  • Fabrice Serret

    Atos Quantum Lab

  • Thomas Ayral

    Atos Quantum Lab

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• A theoretical analysis of the power of pausing

  ORAL

  March 3, 2020, 5:30 PM – March 3, 2020, 5:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Huo Chen

    Univ of Southern California

  Authors

  • Huo Chen

    Univ of Southern California

  • Daniel A Lidar

    University of Southern California, Univ of Southern California, 5. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA

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• Quantum computation using Kerr-nonlinear parametric oscillators

  Invited

  March 3, 2020, 5:42 PM – March 3, 2020, 6:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Hayato Goto

    Toshiba Corp

  Authors

  • Hayato Goto

    Toshiba Corp

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• Effectiveness of quantum annealing pause and partial gauges on embedded degree-bounded minimum spanning tree problems

  ORAL

  March 3, 2020, 6:18 PM – March 3, 2020, 6:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Shon Grabbe

    NASA Ames Research Center

  Authors

  • Shon Grabbe

    NASA Ames Research Center

  • Zoe Gonzalez Izquierdo

    Univ of Southern California, University of Southern California

  • Stuart Hadfield

    NASA Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (QuAIL) - USRA Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS), NASA Ames Research Center, Quantum AI Lab (QuAIL), NASA Ames Research Center

  • Jeffrey Marshall

    NASA Ames Research Center, and USRA, NASA Ames Research Center

  • Zhihui Wang

    NASA Ames Research Center, QuAIL, USRA, NASA

  • Eleanor Rieffel

    Quantum AI Lab, NASA Ames Research Center, QuAIL, NASA Ames Research Center, NASA Ames Research Center, Quantum AI Lab (QuAIL), NASA Ames Research Center, QuAIL, NASA

  • Nicholas Cramer

    NASA Ames Research Center

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• Quantum annealing with boundary canceling schedules

  ORAL

  March 3, 2020, 6:30 PM – March 3, 2020, 6:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Humberto Munoz-Bauza

    Univ of Southern California

  Authors

  • Humberto Munoz-Bauza

    Univ of Southern California

  • Lorenzo Campos Venuti

    Univ of Southern California

  • Daniel A Lidar

    University of Southern California, Univ of Southern California, 5. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA

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• The Perils of Embedding for Sampling Problems

  ORAL

  March 3, 2020, 6:42 PM – March 3, 2020, 6:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Jeffrey Marshall

    NASA Ames Research Center, and USRA, NASA Ames Research Center

  Authors

  • Jeffrey Marshall

    NASA Ames Research Center, and USRA, NASA Ames Research Center

  • Andrea Di Gioacchino

    Dipartimento di Fisica, University of Milan and INFN

  • Eleanor Rieffel

    Quantum AI Lab, NASA Ames Research Center, QuAIL, NASA Ames Research Center, NASA Ames Research Center, Quantum AI Lab (QuAIL), NASA Ames Research Center, QuAIL, NASA

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• Reproducing the Performance Enhancement of Adiabatic Reverse Annealing

  ORAL

  March 3, 2020, 6:54 PM – March 3, 2020, 7:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Matthew Kowalsky

    Physics, University of Southern California

  Authors

  • Matthew Kowalsky

    Physics, University of Southern California

  • Tameem Albash

    University of New Mexico

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• Reverse quantum annealing with dissipation

  ORAL

  March 3, 2020, 7:06 PM – March 3, 2020, 7:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Ka Wa Yip

    Univ of Southern California

  Authors

  • Gianluca Passarelli

    Dipartimento di Fisica "E. Pancini", Università di Napoli "Federico II"

  • Ka Wa Yip

    Univ of Southern California

  • Procolo Lucignano

    Dipartimento di Fisica "E. Pancini", Università di Napoli "Federico II"

  • Daniel A Lidar

    University of Southern California, Univ of Southern California, 5. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA

  • Hidetoshi Nishimori

    Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan

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• Quantum annealing in a degenerate two-level system

  ORAL

  March 3, 2020, 7:18 PM – March 3, 2020, 7:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Shohei Watabe

    Tokyo University of Science

  Authors

  • Shohei Watabe

    Tokyo University of Science

  • Yuya Seki

    Nanoelectronics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

  • Shiro Kawabata

    Nanoelectronics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

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