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Quantum Annealing: Routes to Understanding and Improving Scaling
Quantum annealing is yet to demonstrate the elusive goal of a scaling speedup when benchmarked against classical heuristic optimisers. In this INQA conference we will meet to learn about, consider and discuss possible routes to understanding and improving scaling of QA metrics with system size. Theoretical, numerical and experimental approaches will be discussed. Contributions within this theme or in any other related area of quantum annealing research are welcome.
Dates: Wednesday 9 November 09:00 - Friday 11 November 16:00
Location: Roberts Building, Sir David Davies Lecture Theatre G08, University College London Roberts Building (Engineering) Torrington Place London WC1E 7JE
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Programme
View the detailed programme with talk abstracts. Please note that this document will update regularly and will not be available for download until the contents are finalised.
See below, for a simplified programme:
Wednesday 9th November 2022
| Time | Session | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Coffee and Pastries | |
| 09:30 | Welcome | Paul Warburton, UCL, UK |
| 09:45 | Fast tunneling of frozen chains using AC drives and tone synchronization | Eliot Kapit, Colorado School of Mines, USA |
| 10:30 | Using quantum annealers for brief periods of time | Juanjo Jośe García-Ripoll, CSIC, Spain |
| 11:15 | Coffee | |
| 11:45 | Application specific annealers: a case study for Fermi-Hubbard annealers | Filip Wudarski, USRA, USA |
| 12:30 | Quantum Annealing: From theory to practice | Nick Chancellor, University of Durham, UK |
| 13:15 | Lunch | |
| 14:30 | A graph-theoretical analysis on first order quantum phase transitions for adiabatic quantum computing | Matthias Werner, Qilimanjaro, Spain |
| 14:52 | Rapid quantum approximate solvers for combinatorial optimisation problems inspired by Hamiltonians for optimal state-transfer | Bobby Banks, UCL, UK |
| 15:14 | Tea | |
| 15:45 | Effects of targeted XX-catalysts on quantum annealing spectra with perturbative crossings | Natasha Feinstein, UCL, UK |
| 16:30 | Analysis on gaps, encodings and hybrid approaches at Qilimanjaro | Ana Palacios, Qilimanjaro, Spain |
| 17:15 | Reception |
Thursday 10th November 2022
| Time | Session | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Coffee and Pastries | |
| 09:30 | Talk TBA | Glen Mbeng, University of Innsbruck, Austria |
| 10:15 | Applications on quantum annealers at FZJ | Dennis Willsch, FZ-Jülich, Germany |
| 11:00 | Coffee | |
| 11:30 | Accreditation of analogue simulators | Theo Kapourniotis, University of Warwick, UK |
| 11:52 | Constrained optimization on quantum annealers using linear penalty functions | Puya Mirkarimi, University of Durham, UK |
| 12:14 | Adiabatic quantum computing with parameterized quantum circuits | Ioannis Kolotouros, University of Edinburgh, UK |
| 12:36 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Coherent quantum annealing and quantum critical spin-glass dynamics | Andrew King, D-Wave, Canada |
| 14:45 | Superconducting quantum annealer based on application specific architecture | Shiro Kawabata, AIST, Japan |
| 15:30 | Tea | |
| 16:00 | AVaQus project progress | Pol Forn-Díaz, IFAE, Spain |
Friday 11th November 2022
| Time | Session | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Coffee and Pastries | |
| 09:30 | Shortcuts in quantum annealing | Adolfo Del Campo, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
| 10:15 | Navigating Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Changing Tides of Quantum Technologies | Abbie Bray, UCL, UK |
| 11:00 | Coffee | |
| 11:30 | Error Mitigation for Quantum Approximate Optimization | Anita Weidinger, University of Innsbruck, Austria |
| 12:15 | Using copies to improve precision in continuous-time quantum computing | Jemma Bennett, University of Durham, UK |
| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:15 | Engineering challenges in quantum annealing using Kerr-parametric oscillators | Aiko Yamaguchi, NEC, Japan |
| 15:00 | Landau-Zener tunneling: from weak to strong environment coupling | Adrian Lupascu, University of Waterloo, Canada |
| 15:45 | Tea |
Contact
If you have any enquires about the conference please email the organising team.