Quantum Computing 2022

Forth Interest Group 2022-01-22

IBM 127-bit Eagle Chip

Some of the slides were prepared by my friend and Qiskit Advocate Farai Mazhandu of Zimbabwe, currently working on his doctorate at Colorado School of Mines. The slides are used by permission.

Scroll down on https://www.ibm.com/quantum-computing/systems/

Or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qBrLqvESNM if you don’t mind a YouTube advertisement first

Currently about 24,000 accounts on Qiskit Slack

Probably about ⅓ - ½ are from India

IONQ seems to be doing very well

There’s an IONQ pluggable Provider for Qiskit

https://www.xanadu.ai/

https://photonic.com/

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/full-stack-ahead-pioneering-quantum-hardware-allows-for-controlling-up-to-thousands-of-qubits-at-cryogenic-temperatures/

If I understand correctly from this Jan 2021 blurb

• Still pursuing topological QC
• Using and innovating in superconduction transmon-based QC

Google focusing on AI aspects of QC https://quantumai.google/

https://aws.amazon.com/braket/

QUANTUM SOFTWARE

COMPANIES

Quantum Software companies by funding

OpenQASM 3 new level of Quantum Assembly Language

OpenQASM 3: A broader and deeper quantum assembly language

Andrew W. Cross, Ali Javadi-Abhari, Thomas Alexander, Niel de Beaudrap, Lev S. Bishop, Steven Heidel, Colm A. Ryan, John Smolin, Jay M. Gambetta, Blake R. Johnson

[Submitted on 30 Apr 2021]

OpenQASM 3.x Live Specification

https://github.com/qiskit/openqasm/ for the ANTLR grammar

Qiskit Advocate Mentorship Project Fall 2021�OpenQASM 3 Reference Implementation

Create an OpenQASM 3 Reference Implementation as a mentorship project https://mentor-fall2021-openqasm.github.io/

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OpenQASM Technical Steering Committee

https://medium.com/qiskit/introducing-a-technical-steering-committee-for-openqasm3-f9db808108e1

… I am currently the secretary of the OpenQASM TSC (not a member, just a note-taker and co-ordinator)

Catching and Reversing a Quantum Jump Mid-Flight

Zlatko K. Minev

This paper is an example of how quantum computing impacts our understanding of quantum mechanics.

Know any bright young grad students?

Quantum computing models the world in Linear Algebra

Wikimedia User:Bilou GNU Free Documentation License

Glosser.ca Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-VnFQb01FPstQc9kjd966ROS243wjDHYCTclXVQMixo/edit?usp=sharing