Webinars

QSI Seminar: Prof Jason Twamley, OIST JPN | MQ AUST, Quantum Machines, 04/08/2020

A review of various types of quantum machines TITLE: Quantum Machines SPEAKER: Professor Jason Twamley AFFILIATION: Unit for Quantum Machines, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan | Macquarie University Research Centre in Quantum Science and Technology, Sydney HOSTED BY: Dr Clara Javaherian, UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information ABSTRACT: A quantum machine is a device that makes use of different interconnected physical quantum subsystems to provide an overall functionality not possible in any subsystem alone

QSI Seminar: Dr Audrey Bienfait, ENS Lyon | U.Chicago, Phonon-mediated quantum state transfer, 28/07

TITLE: Phonon-mediated quantum state transfer, remote entanglement and quantum erasure SPEAKER: Dr Audrey Bienfait AFFILIATION: École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France | University of Chicago, USA HOSTED BY: A/Prof Nathan Langford, UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information ABSTRACT: Heavily used in classical signal processing, surface acoustic waves (SAWs) have also been proposed as a means to coherently couple distant solid-state quantum systems

QSI Seminar: Dr Markus Heyl, Max Planck Inst., Reinforcement Learning for Digital Quantum Simulation

Machine learning quantum circuits for digital quantum simulation TITLE: Reinforcement Learning for Digital Simulation SPEAKER: Dr Markus Heyl AFFILIATION: Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Dresden HOSTED BY: A/Prof Nathan Langford, UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information ABSTRACT: Digital quantum simulation is a promising application for quantum computers

QSI Seminar: Pantita Palittapongarnpim, Chulalongkorn U., ML for Adaptive Phase Estimation, 10/07/20

How a known framework in control engineering, namely data-driven control can be formulated for quantum control

QSI Seminar: Dr Adrian Chapman, USyd, Characterization of free-fermion-solvable spin models 07/07/20

Free-Fermion Solutions and Frustration Graphs TITLE: Characterization of free-fermion-solvable spin models via graph invariants SPEAKER: Dr Adrian Chapman AFFILIATION: ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS), University of Sydney, Australia HOSTED BY: A/Prof Chris Ferrie, UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information ABSTRACT: Finding exact solutions to spin models is a fundamental problem of many-body physics

QSI Seminar: Ramis Movassagh, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, Cayley Path and Quantum Supremacy, 03/07/2020

Hardness of Random Circuit Sampling (Google's supremacy experiment) TITLE: Cayley Path and Quantum Supremacy SPEAKER: Dr Ramis Movassagh AFFILIATION: MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, Cambridge MA, USA HOSTED BY: Prof Michael Bremner, UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information ABSTRACT: Given the large push by academia and industry (e

QSI Seminar: Prof. Rodney Van Meter, Keio University, Engineering the Quantum Internet, 30/06/2020

'RuleSet-based Quantum Internet' architecture and the simulation tools for working protocols TITLE: Engineering the Quantum Internet SPEAKER: Professor Rodney Van Meter AFFILIATION: Keio University Quantum Computing Center, Tokyo, Japan HOSTED BY: Dr Simon Devitt, UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information ABSTRACT: Experimental progress toward a general-purpose Quantum Internet is advancing rapidly, but the challenges in building a Quantum Internet extend far beyond having a physical layer that can create entanglement across a distance

QSI Seminar: Prof Lieven Vandersypen, QuTech, Delft U, 25/06/2020

Silicon spin qubits gain traction for large-scale quantum computation and simulation

QSI Seminar: Lana Mineh, U.Bristol, Solving the Fermi-Hubbard Model on Near-Term Q.Computers 24/06

Finding the ground state of the Hubbard model using hybrid quantum-classical computing

QSI Seminar: Guillaume Verdon, X, Quantum-probabilistic Generative Models, 19/06/2020

Building better deep learning representations for quantum mixed states by adding quantum layers to classical probabilistic models