State-of-the-art Classical Tools to Benchmark NISQ Devices

ORAL

Abstract

In the race to show quantum advantage, early quantum devices must be compared to the state-of-the-art classical technology currently available. At the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab (QuAIL) at NASA Ames, we are continuously developing new classical algorithms to benchmark/validate quantum hardware and to raise the bar to claim quantum advantage. In my talk, I will present some of our latest state-of-the-art classical tools to optimize classical cost functions (in collaboration with Texas A&M University), including numerical results on hard benchmark problem sets. Moreover, I will present our optimized classical simulator for large quantum circuits (in collaboration with the Google AI team), including numerical simulations of the Google Bristlecone quantum processing unit.

*This research is based upon work supported by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), via Interagency Umbrella Agreement IA1-1198, the AFRL Information Directorate under grant F4HBKC4162G001 and the NASA Ames Research Center, including the NASA Transformative Aeronautic Concepts program.

Presenters

  • Salvatore Mandra

    • Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab (QuAIL) @ NASA Ames - Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (SGT)

Authors

  • Salvatore Mandra

    • Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab (QuAIL) @ NASA Ames - Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (SGT)
  • Benjamin Villalonga

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab (QuAIL) @ NASA Ames - USRA Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS)
  • Sergio Boixo

    • Google Inc.
    • Quantum A. I. Laboratory, Google
  • Helmut Katzgraber

    • Physics, Texas A&M University
    • Microsoft Quantum, Microsoft
    • Microsoft Quantum
    • Texas A&M University
  • Eleanor Rieffel

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