Quantum Annealing and Optimization III

Presentations

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

  ORAL

  March 15, 2022, 3:00 PM – March 15, 2022, 3:12 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, 3:12 PM – March 15, 2022, 3:24 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, 3:24 PM – March 15, 2022, 3:36 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).
  [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, 3:36 PM – March 15, 2022, 4:12 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, 4:12 PM – March 15, 2022, 4:24 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, 4:24 PM – March 15, 2022, 4:36 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, 4:36 PM – March 15, 2022, 4:48 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, 4:48 PM – March 15, 2022, 5:00 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, 5:00 PM – March 15, 2022, 5:12 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, 5:12 PM – March 15, 2022, 5:24 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, 5:24 PM – March 15, 2022, 5:36 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, 5:36 PM – March 15, 2022, 5:48 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].
  
  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, 5:48 PM – March 15, 2022, 6:00 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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