Quantum Annealing and Optimization III

Presentations

• Improving Quantum Annealing through microcanonical thermalization: a one-dimensional study

  ORAL

  March 15, 2022, 4:00 PM – March 15, 2022, 4:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Gianni Mossi

    NASA Ames Research Center

  Authors

  • Gianni Mossi

    NASA Ames Research Center

  • Eliot Kapit

    Colorado School of Mines

  • Zhijie Tang

    Colorado School of Mines

  • Vadim Oganesyan

    The Graduate Center, City University of New York

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• Fully solvable example of an all-to-all coupling implemented in a local architecture

  ORAL

  March 15, 2022, 4:12 PM – March 15, 2022, 4:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Evgeny Mozgunov

    University of Southern California

  Authors

  • Evgeny Mozgunov

    University of Southern California

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• Hardware-Efficient Quantum Optimization Layered Algorithms and Experiments

  ORAL

  March 15, 2022, 4:24 PM – March 15, 2022, 4:36 PM

  Publication: [1] LaRose, Ryan, Eleanor Rieffel, and Davide Venturelli. "Mixer-Phaser Ansatze for Quantum Optimization with Hard Constraints." arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.06651 (2021).<br>[2] Alam, M. Sohaib, Filip A. Wudarski, Matthew J. Reagor, James Sud, Shon Grabbe, Zhihui Wang, Mark Hodson, P. Aaron Lott, Eleanor G. Rieffel, and Davide Venturelli. "Practical Verification of Quantum Properties in Quantum Approximate Optimization Runs." arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.01639 (2021).

  Presenters

  • Davide Venturelli

    NASA Ames Research Center, NASA Ames Research Center; USRA Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS)

  Authors

  • Davide Venturelli

    NASA Ames Research Center, NASA Ames Research Center; USRA Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS)

  • M. Sohaib Alam

    NASA Ames Research Center

  • Matthew J Reagor

    Rigetti Quantum Computing

  • Bram Evert

    Rigetti Quantum Computing

  • Shon Grabbe

    NASA Ames Research Center

  • Benjamin P Hall

    Michigan State University

  • Mark Hodson

    Rigetti Quantum Computing

  • Ryan M LaRose

    Michigan State University

  • P. Aaron Lott

    NASA Ames Research Center

  • Eleanor G Rieffel

    NASA Ames Research Center, Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (QuAIL), NASA Ames Research Center, QuAIL, NASA

  • James Sud

    NASA Ames Research Center, NASA

  • Zhihui Wang

    NASA Ames Research Center

  • Filip A Wudarski

    NASA Ames Research Center, QuAIL, USRA, NASA

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• Implementation of a 25-Qubit System for Analog Quantum Computing

  ORAL · Invited

  March 15, 2022, 4:36 PM – March 15, 2022, 5:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Steven M Disseler

    MIT Lincoln Lab

  Authors

  • Steven M Disseler

    MIT Lincoln Lab

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• Computational phase transition in Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm -- the difference between hard and easy

  ORAL

  March 15, 2022, 5:12 PM – March 15, 2022, 5:24 PM

  Publication: arXiv: 2109.13346

  Presenters

  • Bingzhi Zhang

    University of Arizona

  Authors

  • Bingzhi Zhang

    University of Arizona

  • Akira N Sone

    Aliro technologies

  • Quntao Zhuang

    University of Arizona

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• The power of density: Suppression of quantum phase transitions via dense driver Hamiltonians in adiabatic quantum computation

  ORAL

  March 15, 2022, 5:24 PM – March 15, 2022, 5:36 PM

  Publication: "The power of density: Suppression of quantum phase transitions via dense driver Hamiltonians in adiabatic quantum computation" - Matthias Werner, Marta P Estarellas, Artur Garcia Saez (in preparation)

  Presenters

  • Matthias Werner

    Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech

  Authors

  • Matthias Werner

    Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech

  • Marta P Estarellas

    Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech

  • Artur Garcia-Saez

    Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech, BSC, Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech

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• Dissipative Landau Zener transition beyond the weak coupling limit with a superconducting flux qubit

  ORAL

  March 15, 2022, 5:36 PM – March 15, 2022, 5:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Xi Dai

    University of Waterloo

  Authors

  • Xi Dai

    University of Waterloo

  • Robbyn Trappen

    University of Waterloo

  • Huo Chen

    University of Southern California, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Rui Yang

    University of Waterloo

  • Denis Melanson

    University of Waterloo

  • Antonio J Martinez

    University of Waterloo

  • Muhammet Ali Yurtalan

    University of Waterloo

  • Yongchao Tang

    University of Waterloo

  • Rabindra Das

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT, MIT Lincoln Lab

  • David K Kim

    MIT Lincoln Lab, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Alexander Melville

    MIT Lincoln Laboratory, MIT Lincoln Lab

  • Bethany M Niedzielski

    MIT Lincoln Lab, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Cyrus F Hirjibehedin

    MIT Lincoln Lab

  • Kyle Serniak

    MIT Lincoln Lab, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Steven J Weber

    MIT Lincoln Lab

  • Jonilyn L Yoder

    MIT Lincoln Lab, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • William D Oliver

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Evgeny Mozgunov

    University of Southern California

  • Daniel A Lidar

    University of Southern California

  • Adrian Lupascu

    University of Waterloo, Canada, University of Waterloo

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• Effects of XX-Catalysts on Annealing Spectra with a Scalable Weighted Maximum-Independent-SetProblem

  ORAL

  March 15, 2022, 5:48 PM – March 15, 2022, 6:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Natasha J Feinstein

    London Centre for Nanotechnology, UCL

  Authors

  • Natasha J Feinstein

    London Centre for Nanotechnology, UCL

  • Louis Fry-Bouriaux

    London Centre Nanotechnology, London Centre for Nanotechnology, UCL

  • Sougato Bose

    Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCL

  • P. A Warburton

    UCL, London Centre for Nanotechnology, UCL

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• Evidence of coherent quantum annealing

  ORAL

  March 15, 2022, 6:00 PM – March 15, 2022, 6:12 PM

  Publication: Planned paper of similar title.

  Presenters

  • Andrew D King

    D-Wave Systems Inc

  Authors

  • Andrew D King

    D-Wave Systems Inc

  • Daniel A Lidar

    University of Southern California

  • Mohammad Amin

    D-Wave Systems Inc

  • Hidetoshi Nishimori

    Tokyo Institute of Technology

  • Sei Suzuki

    Saitama Medical University

  • Jack Raymond

    D-Wave Systems

  • Alex Zucca

    D-Wave Systems

  • Richard G Harris

    D-Wave Systems

  • Trevor Lanting

    D-Wave Systems

  • Andrew J Berkley

    D-Wave Systems

  • Fabio Altomare

    D-Wave Systems

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• Error Suppression in Continuous-time Quantum Computing

  ORAL

  March 15, 2022, 6:12 PM – March 15, 2022, 6:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Jemma Bennett

    Durham University

  Authors

  • Jemma Bennett

    Durham University

  • Viv Kendon

    Strathclyde University

  • Nicholas Chancellor

    Durham University

  • Adam Callison

    UCL

  • Mia West

    Durham University

  • Tom O'Leary

    Oxford University

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• Many-body localization enables iterative quantum optimization

  ORAL

  March 15, 2022, 6:24 PM – March 15, 2022, 6:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Hanteng Wang

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  Authors

  • Hanteng Wang

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  • Hsiu-Chung Yeh

    University of Minnesota

  • Alex Kamenev

    University of Minnesota

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• Testing Hardness in the Transverse-Field Ising Model using the Perturbed Ferromagnetic Chain

  ORAL

  March 15, 2022, 6:36 PM – March 15, 2022, 6:48 PM

  Publication: D. O'Connor, L. Fry-Bouriaux, and P. Warburton, The Perturbed Ferromagnetic Chain: A Tuneable Test of Quantum Hardness in the Transverse-field Ising Model, (2021),arXiv:2106.11019 [quant-ph].<br><br>Also under submitted to Physical Review A and under review with reference code AJ12244

  Presenters

  • Daniel T O'Connor

    UCL

  Authors

  • Daniel T O'Connor

    UCL

  • Louis Fry-Bouriaux

    London Centre Nanotechnology, London Centre for Nanotechnology, UCL

  • P. A Warburton

    UCL, London Centre for Nanotechnology, UCL

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• Efficient criteria of quantumness for a large system of qubits

  ORAL

  March 15, 2022, 6:48 PM – March 15, 2022, 7:00 PM

  Publication: arXiv:2108.13554

  Presenters

  • Shohei Watabe

    Tokyo Univ of Science, Kagurazaka, Tokyo University of Science

  Authors

  • Shohei Watabe

    Tokyo Univ of Science, Kagurazaka, Tokyo University of Science

  • Michael Serikow

    University of Notre Dame

  • Shiro Kawabata

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

  • Alexandre M Zagoskin

    Loughborough University

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