Webinars

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

An introduction to robust control

The 'introduction to robust control' webinar dives into the topic of robust quantum control, providing an introduction to the practical hardware challenges facing quantum computing in 2020 and a discussion of how robust control can help address them