Quantum Annealing: Algorithms & Theory

Presentations

• Inducing mean-field criticality in spin glasses on quasi-planar topologies: Improved quantum annealer designs

  ORAL

  March 13, 2017, 8:00 AM – March 13, 2017, 8:12 AM

  Authors

  • Helmut G. Katzgraber

    • Texas A&M University

  • Mark A. Novotny

    • Mississippi State University

  View abstract →

• Patch planting of hard spin-glass problems: Getting ready for the next generation of optimization approaches

  ORAL

  March 13, 2017, 8:12 AM – March 13, 2017, 8:24 AM

  Authors

  • Wenlong Wang

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University

  • Salvatore Mandr{\`a}

    • NASA Ames Research Center
    • NASA Ames Research Center Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (QuAIL) Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies Inc.

  • Helmut Katzgraber

    • Texas A\&M University
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy Texas A\&M University
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University

  View abstract →

• Thermalization, freeze-out and J-chaos: deciphering experimental quantum annealers

  ORAL

  March 13, 2017, 8:24 AM – March 13, 2017, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Itay Hen

    • Univ of Southern California

  • Jeffrey Marshall

    • Univ of Southern California

  • Eleanor Rieffel

    • QuAIL, NASA Ames Research Center

  View abstract →

• Model-based diagnosis in combinational digital circuits: An application with potential for quantum speedup

  ORAL

  March 13, 2017, 8:36 AM – March 13, 2017, 8:48 AM

  Authors

  • Alejandro Perdomo-Ortiz

    • NASA/Ames Res Ctr
    • NASA Ames

  • Alexander Feldman

    • Parc

  • Zheng Zhu

    • Texas A\&M Univ.

  • Asier Ozaeta

    • QC Ware

  • Sergei Isakov

    • Google

  • Vasil Denchev

    • Google Inc.
    • Google

  • Helmut Katzgraber

    • Texas A\&M Univ.

  • Hartmut Neven

    • Google
    • Google Inc.

  • Alexander Diedrich

    • Fraunhofer IOSB-INA

  • Brad Lackey

    • University of Maryland

  • Johan De Kleer

    • Parc

  • Rupak Biswas

    • NASA/Ames Res Ctr
    • NASA Ames

  View abstract →

• Quantum-assisted learning of graphical models with arbitrary pairwise connectivity

  ORAL

  March 13, 2017, 8:48 AM – March 13, 2017, 9:00 AM

  Authors

  • John Realpe-Gómez

    • NASA/Ames Res Ctr

  • Marcello Benedetti

    • University College London

  • Rupak Biswas

    • NASA/Ames Res Ctr
    • NASA Ames

  • Alejandro Perdomo-Ortiz

    • NASA/Ames Res Ctr
    • NASA Ames

  View abstract →

• Quantum walks on the chimera graph and its variants

  ORAL

  March 13, 2017, 9:00 AM – March 13, 2017, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Barry Sanders

    • Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, University of Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
    • University of Calgary
    • Univ of Calgary
    • University of Science and Technology of China

  • Xiangxiang Sun

    • University of Science and Technology of China

  • Shu Xu

    • University of Science and Technology of China

  • Jizhou Wu

    • University of Science and Technology of China

  • Wei-Wei Zhang

    • Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

  • Nigum Arshed

    • University of Science and Technology of China

  View abstract →

• Towards a measureable pathway for learning quantum annealing

  ORAL

  March 13, 2017, 9:12 AM – March 13, 2017, 9:24 AM

  Authors

  • Elizabeth Behrman

    • Wichita State Univ

  • James Steck

    • Wichita State Univ

  View abstract →

• Artificial neural networks as quantum associative memory

  ORAL

  March 13, 2017, 9:24 AM – March 13, 2017, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Kathleen Hamilton

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Jonathan Schrock

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Neena Imam

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Travis Humble

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  View abstract →

• Anti-Kibble-Zurek Behavior in the Quantum Dynamics of Thermally Isolated Systems Driven by a Noisy Control Field

  ORAL

  March 13, 2017, 9:36 AM – March 13, 2017, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Armin Rahmani

    • Western Washington University

  • Anirban Dutta

    • UMass Boston

  • Adolfo del Campo

    • UMass Boston

  View abstract →

• Efficient Online Optimized Quantum Control for Adiabatic Quantum Computation

  ORAL

  March 13, 2017, 9:48 AM – March 13, 2017, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • Gregory Quiroz

    • Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

  View abstract →

• Optimizing Variational Quantum Algorithms using Pontryagin's Minimum Principle

  ORAL

  March 13, 2017, 10:00 AM – March 13, 2017, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Zhi-Cheng Yang

    • Boston University
    • Physics Department, Boston University

  • Armin Rahmani

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy and Quantum Matter Institute, University of British Columbia

  • Alireza Shabani

    • Google Inc.

  • Hartmut Neven

    • Google
    • Google Inc.

  • Claudio Chamon

    • Boston University
    • Boston Univ
    • Physics Department, Boston University

  View abstract →

• General compiler for reducing multi-qubit terms and controlling coupling strengths in AQC Hamiltonians

  ORAL

  March 13, 2017, 10:12 AM – March 13, 2017, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • Nike Dattani

    • Fukui Institute for Theoretical Chemistry

  • Richard Tanburn

    • Oxford University, Mathematical Institute

  • Richard Ngo

    • Oxford University, Department of Computer Science

  • Toby Cathcart-Burn

    • Oxford University, Mathematical Institute

  View abstract →

• Efficient Embedding of Integer Programming Problems on Quantum Annealers

  ORAL

  March 13, 2017, 10:24 AM – March 13, 2017, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • Davide Venturelli

    • NASA Ames Research Center

  • Immanuel Trummer

    • Cornell University

  View abstract →

• Quantum annealing of disordered spin systems

  ORAL

  March 13, 2017, 10:36 AM – March 13, 2017, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • Lukas Sieberer

    • Univ of California - Berkeley

  • Philipp Hauke

    • Univ of Innsbruck

  • Ehud Altman

    • Univ of California - Berkeley

  • Wolfgang Lechner

    • Univ of Innsbruck

  View abstract →

• Goldiocks probes for noisy interferometry via quantum annealing to criticality

  ORAL

  March 13, 2017, 10:48 AM – March 13, 2017, 11:00 AM

  Authors

  • Gabriel Durkin

    • Berkeley Center for Quantum Information and Computation

  View abstract →