A team of researchers have presented the Scaled QUantum IDentifier (SQUID), an open-source framework for exploring hybrid Quantum-Classical algorithms for classification problems. The classical infrastructure is based on PyTorch and they provide a standardized design […]
A variational quantum algorithm for deep Q-learning
Research in Quantum Machine Learning (QML) has focused primarily on variational quantum algorithms (VQAs), and several proposals to enhance supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms with VQAs have been put forward. Out of the […]
Quantum circuit architecture search for Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs)
Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) are expected to be a path to quantum advantages on noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices. However, both empirical and theoretical results exhibit that the deployed ansatz heavily affects the performance of VQAs […]
A quantum implementation of the Stochastic Series Expansion (SSE) Monte Carlo
Researchers have proposed a quantum implementation of the Stochastic Series Expansion (SSE) Monte Carlo method and shown it offers significant advantages over classical implementations of SSE. In particular, for problems where classical SSE encounters the […]
Team simulates collider physics on quantum computer
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory physicists have leveraged an IBM Q quantum computer through the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility to capture part of a calculation of two protons colliding. The calculation can show the probability […]
NVIDIA unveils onramp to Hybrid Quantum Computing
NVIDIA cuQuantum debuts with an expanding ecosystem and a collaboration building the programming model for tomorrow’s most powerful systems. As quantum computers improve, researchers share a vision of a hybrid computing model where quantum and […]
Making quantum computing more resilient to noise
Researchers at MIT are working to mitigate the noise problem in quantum computing by developing a technique that makes the quantum circuit itself resilient to noise. (Specifically, these are “parameterized” quantum circuits that contain adjustable […]
Toward a quantum computer that calculates molecular energy
Researchers have developed an algorithm that uses the most quantum bits to date to calculate ground state energy, the lowest-energy state in a quantum mechanical system. The discovery could make it easier to design new […]
Minimizing the guesswork of a quantum ensemble
A Quantum Ensemble — a set of quantum states with their corresponding probabilities — is essential to the encoding of classical information for transmission over quantum channels. But receivers must be able to ‘guess’ the […]
A Quantum solution to an 18th-Century puzzle
A sudoku-style mathematical puzzle that is known to have no classical solution has been found to be soluble if the objects being arrayed in a square grid show quantum behavior. The problem, posed by Swiss […]