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Featured arXiv papers - January 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

Protecting a Bosonic Qubit with Autonomous Quantum Error Correction

Authors: Jeffrey M. Gertler, Brian Baker, Juliang Li, Shruti Shirol, Jens Koch, Chen Wang April 20, 2020

QAOA-based Fair Sampling on NISQ Devices

Authors: John Golden, Andreas Bärtschi, Daniel O'Malley, Stephan Eidenbenz January 08, 2021

Preparation and study of the entanglement of the Schrödinger cat state on the ibmq-melbourne quantum computer

Authors: A. R. Kuzmak, V. M. Tkachuk January 13, 2021

Simulating Energy Transfer in Molecular Systems with Digital Quantum Computers

Authors: Chee-Kong Lee, Jonathan Wei Zhong Lau, Liang Shi, Leong Chuan Kwek January 18, 2021

Quantum assisted simulation of time dependent Hamiltonians

Authors: Jonathan Wei Zhong Lau, Kishor Bharti, Tobias Haug, Leong Chuan Kwek January 19, 2021

Information Scrambling in Computationally Complex Quantum Circuits

Authors: Xiao Mi, Pedram Roushan, Chris Quintana, Salvatore Mandra, Jeffrey Marshall, Charles Neill, Frank Arute, Kunal Arya, Juan Atalaya, Ryan Babbush, Joseph C. Bardin, Rami Barends, Andreas Bengtsson, Sergio Boixo, Alexandre Bourassa, Michael Broughton, Bob B. Buckley, David A. Buell, Brian Burkett, Nicholas Bushnell, Zijun Chen, Benjamin Chiaro, Roberto Collins, William Courtney, Sean Demura, Alan R. Derk, Andrew Dunsworth, Daniel Eppens, Catherine Erickson, Edward Farhi, Austin G. Fowler, Brooks Foxen, Craig Gidney, Marissa Giustina, Jonathan A. Gross, Matthew P. Harrigan, Sean D. Harrington, Jeremy Hilton, Alan Ho, Sabrina Hong, Trent Huang, William J. Huggins, L. B. Ioffe, Sergei V. Isakov, Evan Jeffrey, Zhang Jiang, Cody Jones, Dvir Kafri, Julian Kelly, Seon Kim, Alexei Kitaev, Paul V. Klimov, Alexander N. Korotkov, Fedor Kostritsa, David Landhuis, Pavel Laptev, Erik Lucero, Orion Martin, Jarrod R. McClean, Trevor McCourt, Matt McEwen, Anthony Megrant, Kevin C. Miao, Masoud Mohseni, Wojciech Mruczkiewicz, Josh Mutus, Ofer Naaman, Matthew Neeley, Michael Newman, Murphy Yuezhen Niu, Thomas E. O'Brien, Alex Opremcak, Eric Ostby, Balint Pato, Andre Petukhov, Nicholas Redd, Nicholas C. Rubin, Daniel Sank, Kevin J. Satzinger, Vladimir Shvarts, Doug Strain, Marco Szalay, Matthew D. Trevithick, Benjamin Villalonga, Theodore White, Z. Jamie Yao, Ping Yeh, Adam Zalcman, Hartmut Neven, Igor Aleiner, Kostyantyn Kechedzhi, Vadim Smelyanskiy, Yu Chen January 21, 2021

Testing Scalable Bell Inequalities for Quantum Graph States on IBM Quantum Devices

Authors: Bo Yang, Rudy Raymond, Hiroshi Imai, Hyungseok Chang, Hidefumi Hiraishi January 25, 2021

A Trailhead for Quantum Simulation of SU(3) Yang-Mills Lattice Gauge Theory in the Local Multiplet Basis

Authors: Anthony Ciavarella, Natalie Klco, Martin J. Savage January 25, 2021

NISQ Experiments - Analog/Quantum Annealing

Cellular Automata on Quantum Annealing Systems

Authors: Robert A. Dunn January 07, 2021

Observation of thermalization and information scrambling in a superconducting quantum processor

Authors: Qingling Zhu, Zheng-Hang Sun, Ming Gong, Fusheng Chen, 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 January 20, 2021

Characterization of QUBO reformulations for the maximum k-colorable subgraph problem

Authors: Rodolfo Quintero, David Bernal, Tamás Terlaky, Luis F. Zuluaga January 23, 2021

Garden optimization problems for benchmarking quantum annealers

Authors: Carlos D. Gonzalez Calaza, Dennis Willsch, Kristel Michielsen January 26, 2021

NISQ Experiments - Atom Based

A compact ion-trap quantum computing demonstrator

Authors: Ivan Pogorelov, Thomas Feldker, Christian D. Marciniak, Georg Jacob, Verena Podlesnic, Michael Meth, Vlad Negnevitsky, Martin Stadler, Kirill Lakhmanskiy, Rainer Blatt, Philipp Schindler, Thomas Monz January 27, 2021

NISQ Experiments - Photonic

Fusion-based quantum computation

Authors: Sara Bartolucci, Patrick Birchall, Hector Bombin, Hugo Cable, Chris Dawson, Mercedes Gimeno-Segovia, Eric Johnston, Konrad Kieling, Naomi Nickerson, Mihir Pant, Fernando Pastawski, Terry Rudolph, Chris Sparrow January 22, 2021

NISQ Algorithms

NISQ Algorithms - Machine Learning

Denoising quantum states with Quantum Autoencoders -- Theory and Applications

Authors: Tom Achache, Lior Horesh, John Smolin December 29, 2020

Branching Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks

Authors: Ian MacCormack, Conor Delaney, Alexey Galda, Nidhi Aggarwal, Prineha Narang December 28, 2020

Hybrid Quantum-Classical Graph Convolutional Network

Authors: Samuel Yen-Chi Chen, Tzu-Chieh Wei, Chao Zhang, Haiwang Yu, Shinjae Yoo January 15, 2021

Variational Quantum Support Vector Machine based on Γ matrix expansion and Variational Universal-Quantum-State Generator

Authors: Motohiko Ezawa January 20, 2021

Quantum Generative Adversarial Networks in a Continuous-Variable Architecture to Simulate High Energy Physics Detectors

Authors: Su Yeon Chang, Sofia Vallecorsa, Elías F. Combarro, Federico Carminati January 26, 2021

NISQ Algorithms - Optimization

Qualifying quantum approaches for hard industrial optimization problems. A case study in the field of smart-charging of electric vehicles

Authors: Constantin Dalyac, Loïc Henriet, Emmanuel Jeandel, Wolfgang Lechner, Simon Perdrix, Marc Porcheron, Margarita Veshchezerova December 29, 2020

Quantum annealing initialization of the quantum approximate optimization algorithm

Authors: Stefan H. Sack, Maksym Serbyn January 14, 2021

Enhancing Combinatorial Optimization with Quantum Generative Models

Authors: Javier Alcazar, Alejandro Perdomo-Ortiz January 15, 2021

Solving Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization with divide-and-conquer and quantum algorithms

Authors: Gian Giacomo Guerreschi January 19, 2021

NISQ Algorithms - Simulation

Quantum Simulation of Many-Body Effects in the Li-, Be, and B+ Isoelectronic Systems using the Variational Quantum Eigensolver Algorithm

Authors: Sumeet, V. S. Prasannaa, B. P. Das, B. K. Sahoo January 14, 2021

Towards Cosmological Simulations of Dark Matter on Quantum Computers

Authors: Philip Mocz, Aaron Szasz January 14, 2021

Randomizing multi-product formulas for improved Hamiltonian simulation

Authors: Paul K. Faehrmann, Mark Steudtner, Richard Kueng, Maria Kieferova, Jens Eisert January 19, 2021

Improved accuracy on noisy devices by non-unitary Variational Quantum Eigensolver for chemistry applications

Authors: Francesco Benfenati, Guglielmo Mazzola, Chiara Capecci, Panagiotis Kl. Barkoutsos, Pauline J. Ollitrault, Ivano Tavernelli, Leonardo Guidoni January 22, 2021

Quantum Simulation of Molecules without Fermionic Encoding of the Wave Function

Authors: David A. Mazziotti, Alexander R. Mazziotti January 27, 2021

NISQ Algorithms - Benchmarking; Software Tools; Compilation

MISTIQS: An open-source software for performing quantum dynamics simulations on quantum computers

Authors: Connor Powers, Lindsay Bassman, Thomas Linker, Ken-ichi Nomura, Sahil Gulania, Rajiv K. Kalia, Aiichiro Nakano, Priya Vashishta January 05, 2021

Distributed Quantum Computing and Network Control for Accelerated VQE

Authors: Stephen DiAdamo, Marco Ghibaudi, James Cruise January 07, 2021

Efficient decomposition of unitary matrices in quantum circuit compilers

Authors: A. M. Krol, A. Sarkar, I. Ashraf, Z. Al-Ars, K. Bertels January 08, 2021

Composable Programming of Hybrid Workflows for Quantum Simulation

Authors: Thien Nguyen, Lindsay Bassman, Dmitry Lyakh, Alexander McCaskey, Vicente Leyton-Ortega, Raphael Pooser, Wael Elwasif, Travis S. Humble, Wibe A. de Jong January 20, 2021

Enabling Dataflow Optimization for Quantum Programs

Authors: David Ittah, Thomas Häner, Vadym Kliuchnikov, Torsten Hoefler January 26, 2021

NISQ Algorithms - Other

Pricing Financial Derivatives with Exponential Quantum Speedup

Authors: Javier Gonzalez-Conde, Ángel Rodríguez-Rozas, Enrique Solano, Mikel Sanz January 11, 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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