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Featured arXiv papers - February 2021

The noisy-intermediate-scale-quantum (NISQ) Computing newsletter is a curated ArXiv Digest published once a month by the USRA Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science. We feature exclusively experiments and algorithms that advance the field of applied quantum computing in existing hardware. The team of editors collaborates with the NASA Ames Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (QuAIL) to produce the content. To submit a paper for consideration please visit the NISQC newsletter page at http://riacs.usra.edu/quantum/NISQC-NL. Announcement: We are looking for sponsors for supporting the newsletter digest curation and database. Please contact us if you are interested.

NISQ Experiments

NISQ Experiments - Superconducting

Comparison of Cloud-Based Ion Trap and Superconducting Quantum Computer Architectures

Authors: S. Blinov, B. Wu, C. Monroe January 31, 2021

Exploiting dynamic quantum circuits in a quantum algorithm with superconducting qubits

Authors: Antonio D. Corcoles, Maika Takita, Ken Inoue, Scott Lekuch, Zlatko K. Minev, Jerry M. Chow, Jay M. Gambetta February 02, 2021

Implementation of improved quantum search algorithms on IBM quantum processors

Authors: Kun Zhang, Pooja Rao, Kwangmin Yu, Hyunkyung Lim, Vladimir Korepin February 02, 2021

Quantum walks on a programmable two-dimensional 62-qubit superconducting processor

Authors: Ming Gong, Shiyu Wang, Chen Zha, Ming-Cheng Chen, He-Liang Huang, Yulin Wu, Qingling Zhu, Youwei Zhao, Shaowei Li, Shaojun Guo, Haoran Qian, Yangsen Ye, Fusheng Chen, Chong Ying, Jiale Yu, Daojin Fan, Dachao Wu, Hong Su, Hui Deng, Hao Rong, Kaili Zhang, Sirui Cao, Jin Lin, Yu Xu, Lihua Sun, Cheng Guo, Na Li, Futian Liang, V. M. Bastidas, Kae Nemoto, W. J. Munro, Yong-Heng Huo, Chao-Yang Lu, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Xiaobo Zhu, Jian-Wei Pan February 04, 2021

Simulating collider physics on quantum computers using effective field theories

Authors: Christian W. Bauer, Marat Freytsis, Benjamin Nachman February 09, 2021

Observation of strong and weak thermalization in a superconducting quantum processor

Authors: Fusheng Chen, Zheng-Hang Sun, Ming Gong, Qingling Zhu, Yu-Ran Zhang, Yulin Wu, Yangsen Ye, Chen Zha, Shaowei Li, Shaojun Guo, Haoran Qian, He-Liang Huang, Jiale Yu, Hui Deng, Hao Rong, Jin Lin, Yu Xu, Lihua Sun, Cheng Guo, Na Li, Futian Liang, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Heng Fan, Xiaobo Zhu, Jian-Wei Pan February 17, 2021

SU(2) hadrons on a quantum computer

Authors: Yasar Atas, Jinglei Zhang, Randy Lewis, Amin Jahanpour, Jan F. Haase, Christine A. Muschik February 17, 2021

Preparation of Strongly Correlated Superconducting States on a Quantum Computer with Hints of Quantum Advantage

Authors: LeeAnn M. Sager, David A. Mazziotti February 17, 2021

Whole-device entanglement in a 65-qubit superconducting quantum computer

Authors: Gary J. Mooney, Gregory A. L. White, Charles D. Hill, Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg February 23, 2021

Simulation of Collective Neutrino Oscillations on a Quantum Computer

Authors: Benjamin Hall, Alessandro Roggero, Alessandro Baroni, Joseph Carlson February 24, 2021

NISQ Experiments - Analog/Quantum Annealing

Sampling electronic structure QUBOs with Ocean and Mukai solvers

Authors: Alexander Teplukhin, Brian K. Kendrick, Susan M. Mniszewski, Sergei Tretiak, Pavel A. Dub February 01, 2021

Focusing on the Hybrid Quantum Computing -- Tabu Search Algorithm: new results on the Asymmetric Salesman Problem

Authors: Eneko Osaba, Esther Villar-Rodriguez, Izaskun Oregi, Aitor Moreno-Fernandez-de-Leceta February 11, 2021

Performance of Domain-Wall Encoding for Quantum Annealing

Authors: Jie Chen, Tobias Stollenwerk, Nicholas Chancellor February 24, 2021

NISQ Experiments - Atom Based

Comparison of Cloud-Based Ion Trap and Superconducting Quantum Computer Architectures

Authors: S. Blinov, B. Wu, C. Monroe January 31, 2021

Efficient and Accurate Electronic Structure Simulation Demonstrated on a Trapped-Ion Quantum Computer

Authors: Yukio Kawashima, Marc P. Coons, Yunseong Nam, Erika Lloyd, Shunji Matsuura, Alejandro J. Garza, Sonika Johri, Lee Huntington, Valentin Senicourt, Andrii O. Maksymov, Jason H. V. Nguyen, Jungsang Kim, Nima Alidoust, Arman Zaribafiyan, Takeshi Yamazaki February 14, 2021

Demonstration of quantum advantage by a joint detection receiver for optical communications using quantum belief propagation on a trapped-ion device

Authors: Conor Delaney, Kaushik P. Seshadreesan, Ian MacCormack, Alexey Galda, Saikat Guha, Prineha Narang February 25, 2021

NISQ Experiments - Photonic

Quantum Computational Supremacy via High-Dimensional Gaussian Boson Sampling

Authors: Abhinav Deshpande, Arthur Mehta, Trevor Vincent, Nicolas Quesada, Marcel Hinsche, Marios Ioannou, Lars Madsen, Jonathan Lavoie, Haoyu Qi, Jens Eisert, Dominik Hangleiter, Bill Fefferman, Ish Dhand February 24, 2021

NISQ Algorithms

NISQ Algorithms - Machine Learning

Ansatz-Independent Variational Quantum Classifier

Authors: Hideyuki Miyahara, Vwani Roychowdhury February 02, 2021

An end-to-end trainable hybrid classical-quantum classifier

Authors: Samuel Yen-Chi Chen, Chih-Min Huang, Chia-Wei Hsing, Ying-Jer Kao February 04, 2021

Quantum computing models for artificial neural networks

Authors: Stefano Mangini, Francesco Tacchino, Dario Gerace, Daniele Bajoni, Chiara Macchiavello February 07, 2021

Quantum machine learning with adaptive linear optics

Authors: Ulysse Chabaud, Damian Markham, Adel Sohbi February 08, 2021

NISQ Algorithms - Optimization

Layer VQE: A Variational Approach for Combinatorial Optimization on Noisy Quantum Computers

Authors: Xiaoyuan Liu, Anthony Angone, Ruslan Shaydulin, Ilya Safro, Yuri Alexeev, Lukasz Cincio February 10, 2021

Quantum Variational Optimization of Ramsey Interferometry and Atomic Clocks

Authors: Raphael Kaubruegger, Denis V. Vasilyev, Marius Schulte, Klemens Hammerer, Peter Zoller February 10, 2021

NISQ Algorithms - Simulation

Adaptive Variational Quantum Imaginary Time Evolution Approach for Quantum Chemistry Calculations

Authors: Niladri Gomes, Anirban Mukherjee, Feng Zhang, Thomas Iadecola, Cai-Zhuang Wang, Kai-Ming Ho, Peter P. Orth, Yong-Xin Yao February 02, 2021

Optimization of the Variational Quantum Eigensolver for Quantum Chemistry Applications

Authors: R. J. P. T. de Keijzer, V. E. Colussi, B. Škorić, S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans February 02, 2021

Improving the variational quantum eigensolver using variational adiabatic quantum computing

Authors: Stuart M. Harwood, Dimitar Trenev, Spencer T. Stober, Panagiotis Barkoutsos, Tanvi P. Gujarati, Sarah Mostame February 04, 2021

Unitary Block Optimization for Variational Quantum Algorithms

Authors: Lucas Slattery, Benjamin Villalonga, Bryan K. Clark February 16, 2021

Resource-efficient digital bosonic quantum simulations

Authors: Marco Majland, Nikolaj Thomas Zinner February 23, 2021

NISQ Algorithms - Benchmarking; Software Tools; Compilation

DisQ: A Novel Quantum Output State Classification Method on IBM Quantum Computers using OpenPulse

Authors: Tirthak Patel, Devesh Tiwari February 01, 2021

Special-Purpose Quantum Processor Design

Authors: Bin-Han Lu, Yu-Chun Wu, Wei-Cheng Kong, Qi Zhou, Guo-Ping Guo February 01, 2021

Cache Blocking Technique to Large Scale Quantum Computing Simulation on Supercomputers

Authors: Jun Doi, Hiroshi Horii February 05, 2021

Benchmarking Quantum Chemistry Computations with Variational, Imaginary Time Evolution, and Krylov Space Solver Algorithms

Authors: Kübra Yeter-Aydeniz, Bryan T. Gard, Jacek Jakowski, Swarnadeep Majumder, George S. Barron, George Siopsis, Travis Humble, Raphael C. Pooser February 10, 2021

Qubit-efficient exponential suppression of errors

Authors: Piotr Czarnik, Andrew Arrasmith, Lukasz Cincio, Patrick J. Coles February 11, 2021

Evaluating the Performance of Some Local Optimizers for Variational Quantum Classifiers

Authors: Nisheeth Joshi, Pragya Katyayan, Syed Afroz Ahmed February 17, 2021

Quantum Gate Pattern Recognition and Circuit Optimization for Scientific Applications

Authors: Wonho Jang, Koji Terashi, Masahiko Saito, Christian W. Bauer, Benjamin Nachman, Yutaro Iiyama, Tomoe Kishimoto, Ryunosuke Okubo, Ryu Sawada, Junichi Tanaka February 19, 2021

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Bold title denotes papers authored by NASA QuAIL members. Disclaimer: the papers showcased in the newsletter have typically not been peer-reviewed. Their appearance in the newsletter is purely indicative of the first impressions of the editors and does not constitute an endorsement. To contact the editors write to dventurelli@usra.edu.

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