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March 2020

Featured arXiv papers - February 15th - March 14th, 2020

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: Internship Applications for the Quantum Academy at USRA and NASA QuAIL group are open, info here.

NISQ Experiments

NISQ Experiment - Superconducting

Identification of networking quantum teleportation on 14-qubit IBM universal quantum computer

Authors: Ni-Ni Huang, Wei-Hao Huang, Che-Ming Li 21 Feb 2020

Quantum simulations of materials on near-term quantum computers

Authors: He Ma, Marco Govoni, Giulia Galli 27 Feb 2020

Quantum Information Scrambling in a Superconducting Qutrit Processor

Authors: M.S.Blok, V.V.Ramasesh, T.Schuster, K.O'Brien, J.M.Kreikebaum, D.Dahlen, A.Morvan, B.Yoshida, N.Y.Yao, I.Siddiqi 9 Mar 2020

NISQ Experiment - Analog/Quantum Annealing

Precise Quantum Simulations with Optical Lattices

Authors: Xingze Qiu, Xiaopeng Li 4 Mar 2020

Thermodynamics of a Quantum Annealer

Authors: Lorenzo Buffoni, Michele Campisi 5 Mar 2020

NISQ Experiment - Atom Based

Demonstration of the QCCD trapped-ion quantum computer architecture

Authors: J.M.Pino, J.M.Dreiling, C.Figgatt, J.P.Gaebler, S.A.Moses, M.S.Allman, C.H.Baldwin, M.Foss-Feig, D.Hayes, K.Mayer, C.Ryan-Anderson, B.Neyenhuis 4 Mar 2020

NISQ Algorithms

NISQ Algorithm - Machine Learning

QEML (Quantum Enhanced Machine Learning): Using Quantum Computing to Enhance ML Classifiers and Feature Spaces

Authors: Siddharth Sharma 26 Feb 2020

Robust data encodings for quantum classifiers

Authors: Ryan LaRose, Brian Coyle 4 Mar 2020

NISQ Algorithm - Optimization

Characterizing local noise in QAOA circuits

Authors: Jeffrey Marshall, Filip Wudarski, Stuart Hadfield, Tad Hogg 27 Feb 2020

Approximating the Quantum Approximate Optimisation Algorithm

Authors: David Headley, Thorge Müller, Ana Martin, Enrique Solano, Mikel Sanz, Frank K.Wilhelm 28 Feb 2020

A quantum algorithm for model independent searches for new physics

Authors: Konstantin T.Matchev, Prasanth Shyamsundar, Jordan Smolinsky 5 Mar 2020

Cross Entropy Hyperparameter Optimization for Constrained Problem Hamiltonians Applied to QAOA

Authors: Christoph Roch, Alexander Impertro, Thomy Phan, Thomas Gabor, Sebastian Feld, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien 12 Mar 2020

NISQ Algorithm - Simulation

Lattice Gauge Theory for a Quantum Computer

Authors: Richard C.Brower, David Berenstein, Hiroki Kawai 25 Feb 2020

Quantum Algorithms for Simulating the Lattice Schwinger Model

Authors: Alexander F.Shaw, Pavel Lougovski, Jesse R.Stryker, Nathan Wiebe 27 Feb 2020

Calculating transition amplitudes by variational quantum eigensolvers

Authors: Yohei Ibe, Yuya O.Nakagawa, Takahiro Yamamoto, Kosuke Mitarai, Qi Gao, Takao Kobayashi 28 Feb 2020

Near-optimal ground state preparation

Authors: Lin Lin, Yu Tong 2 Mar 2020

Calculating nonadiabatic couplings and Berry's phase by variational quantum eigensolvers

Authors: Shiro Tamiya, Yuya O.Nakagawa 4 Mar 2020

Computing thermodynamic observables on noisy quantum computers with chemical accuracy

Authors: Spencer T.Stober, Stuart M.Harwood, Donny Greenberg, Tanvi P.Gujarati, Sarah Mostame, Sumathy Raman, Dimitar Trenev 6 Mar 2020

NISQ Algorithm - Benchmarking, Software Tools, Compilation

Efficient Quantum Circuit Decompositions via Intermediate Qudits

Authors: Jonathan M.Baker, Casey Duckering, Frederic T.Chong 26 Feb 2020

Planning for Compilation of a Quantum Algorithm for Graph Coloring

Authors: Minh Do, Zhihui Wang, Bryan O'Gorman, Davide Venturelli, Eleanor Rieffel, Jeremy Frank 26 Feb 2020

CODAR: A Contextual Duration-Aware Qubit Mapping for Various NISQ Devices

Authors: Haowei Deng, Yu Zhang, Quanxi Li 26 Feb 2020

Probing quantum processor performance with pyGSTi

Authors: Erik Nielsen, Kenneth Rudinger, Timothy Proctor, Antonio Russo, Kevin Young, Robin Blume-Kohout 2 Mar 2020

Efficient Qubit Routing for a Globally Connected Trapped Ion Quantum Computer

Authors: Mark Webber, Steven Herbert, Sebastian Weidt, Winfried Hensinger 2 Mar 2020

An application benchmark for fermionic quantum simulations

Authors: Pierre-Luc Dallaire-Demers, Michał Stęchły, Jerome F.Gonthier, Ntwali Toussaint Bashige, Jonathan Romero, Yudong Cao 5 Mar 2020

TensorFlow Quantum: A Software Framework for Quantum Machine Learning

Authors: Michael Broughton, Guillaume Verdon, Trevor McCourt, Antonio J.Martinez, Jae Hyeon Yoo, Sergei V.Isakov, Philip Massey, Murphy Yuezhen Niu, Ramin Halavati, Evan Peters, Martin Leib, Andrea Skolik, Michael Streif, David Von Dollen, Jarrod R.McClean, Sergio Boixo, Dave Bacon, Alan K.Ho, Hartmut Neven, Masoud Mohseni 9 Mar 2020

Enhancing a Near-Term Quantum Accelerator's Instruction Set Architecture for Materials Science Applications

Authors: Xiang Zou, Shavindra P.Premaratne, M.Adriaan Rol, Sonika Johri, Viacheslav Ostroukh, David J.Michalak, Roman Caudillo, James S.Clarke, Leonardo Dicarlo, A.Y.Matsuura 10 Mar 2020

Benchmarking protocols for analog quantum simulators

Authors: Ryan Shaffer, Eli Megidish, Joseph Broz, Wei-Ting Chen, Hartmut Häffner 11 Mar 2020

QFAST: Quantum Synthesis Using a Hierarchical Continuous Circuit Space

Authors: Ed Younis, Koushik Sen, Katherine Yelick, Costin Iancu 11 Mar 2020

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Funding for this newsletter is provided by NYSTEC and the Air Force Research Lab. 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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