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completed / Historical program; documented outputs 2019–2021

AFRL QIS

The AFRL–NYSTEC–USRA Quantum Information Science program supported quantum algorithms, annealing, software, and Feynman Quantum Academy research.

Award
FA8750-19-3-6101
Funding / support
Air Force Research Laboratory / NYSTEC

Program publications

Latest 3 of 7
Staff involved

Davide VenturelliFilip WudarskiZhihui WangDavid Bernal NeiraEugeniu PlamadealaKyle BoothMasoud MohseniSergey Knysh

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2021
Open paper

Mixer-Phaser Ansätze for Quantum Optimization with Hard Constraints

Ryan LaRose, Eleanor Rieffel, Davide Venturelli Quantum Machine Intelligence

DOI arXiv Academy
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2021
Open paper

Physics-Inspired Heuristics for Soft MIMO Detection in 5G New Radio and Beyond

Minsung Kim, Salvatore Mandrà, Davide Venturelli, Kyle Jamieson Proceedings of the 27th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, 42-55

DOI arXiv Academy
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2020
Open paper

Quantum algorithms with local particle number conservation: noise effects and error correction

Michael Streif, Martin Leib, Filip Wudarski, Eleanor Rieffel, Zhihui Wang Physical Review A, 103(4), 042412

DOI arXiv Academy
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completed / 2020–2024

DARPA ONISQ

Scheduling Applications with Advanced Mixers (SAAM): a USRA-led collaboration with Rigetti Computing and NASA QuAIL to develop and benchmark quantum optimization algorithms on superconducting processors.

Award
HR00112090058; DARPA–NASA IAA 8839, Annex 114
Funding / support
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Program publications

Latest 3 of 23
Staff involved

Davide VenturelliStuart HadfieldFilip MaciejewskiZhihui WangFilip WudarskiAta Akbari AsanjanAaron LottDavid Bernal NeiraErik GustafsonJacob BiamonteJames SudJeffrey MarshallM. Sohaib AlamNishchay SuriNorman TubmanTad HoggZoe Gonzalez Izquierdo

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2026
Open paper

Partitioned Iterative Quantum Scheduling of Satellites for Urgent Disaster Response: Case study of Wildfire

Lucas T. Braydwood, Taejin Park, Hirofumi Hashimoto, Zoe Gonzalez Izquierdo, Andrew Michaelis, Eleanor Rieffel, Shon Grabbe arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.12310

arXiv
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2024
Open paper

FOCQS: Feedback Optimally Controlled Quantum States

Lucas T Brady, Stuart Hadfield arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.15426

arXiv
Figure-derived thumbnail for A Multilevel Approach For Solving Large-Scale QUBO Problems With Noisy Hybrid Quantum Approximate Optimization
2024
Open paper

A Multilevel Approach For Solving Large-Scale QUBO Problems With Noisy Hybrid Quantum Approximate Optimization

Filip B Maciejewski, Bao Gia Bach, Maxime Dupont, P Aaron Lott, Bhuvanesh Sundar, David E Bernal Neira, Ilya Safro, Davide Venturelli 2024 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC), 1-10

DOI arXiv Hardware: Rigetti
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completed / 2018–2022

NSF SpecEES

Advancing the Wireless Spectral Frontier with Quantum-Enabled Computational Techniques (QENeTs): quantum and quantum-inspired methods for high-performance wireless decoding and MIMO processing.

Award
NSF CNS-1824470 (USRA); collaborative award CNS-1824357 (Princeton)
Funding / support
National Science Foundation

Program publications

Latest 3 of 6
Staff involved

Davide VenturelliFilip WudarskiDavid Bernal Neira

Figure-derived thumbnail for Benchmarking the Operation of Quantum Heuristics and Ising Machines: Scoring Parameter Setting Strategies on Optimization Applications
2024
Open paper

Benchmarking the Operation of Quantum Heuristics and Ising Machines: Scoring Parameter Setting Strategies on Optimization Applications

David E Bernal Neira, Robin Brown, Pratik Sathe, Filip Wudarski, Marco Pavone, Eleanor G Rieffel, Davide Venturelli Quantum Machine Intelligence, 7(2), 86

DOI arXiv Academy Google Scholar recordGoogle Scholar record
2021
Open paper

Ising Machines' Dynamics and Regularization for Near-Optimal Large and Massive MIMO Detection

Abhishek Kumar Singh, Kyle Jamieson, Davide Venturelli, Peter McMahon in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 21, no. 12, pp. 11080-11094, Dec. 2022

DOI arXiv Academy
Figure-derived thumbnail for Physics-Inspired Heuristics for Soft MIMO Detection in 5G New Radio and Beyond
2021
Open paper

Physics-Inspired Heuristics for Soft MIMO Detection in 5G New Radio and Beyond

Minsung Kim, Salvatore Mandrà, Davide Venturelli, Kyle Jamieson Proceedings of the 27th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, 42-55

DOI arXiv Academy
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