Unifying Circuit-Model Quantum Computing and Quantum Annealing (UniQ)

• funded by: LANL
• funding level: $225,000
• duration: 4/13/2021 - 09/30/2023

The goal of this research is to both unify and facilitate the exploitation of circuit-model quantum computers and quantum annealers. As a result, productivity of computational scientists is increased in all scientific disciplines.

Publications:

• Combining Hard and Soft Constraints in Quantum Constraint-Satisfaction Systems by Ellis Wilson, Frank Mueller, Scott Pakin in Supercomputing (SC), Nov 2022, pages (accepted). Software artifact github and NchooseK main repo
• Mapping Constraint Problems onto Quantum Gate and Annealing Devices by Ellis Wilson, Frank Mueller, Scott Pakin in International Workshop on Quantum Computing Software, Nov 2021.

Refereed Posters:

• Synthesis of Approximate Parametric Circuits for Variational Quantum Algorithms by Blake Burgstahler, Frank Mueller and Scott Pakin in Quantum Simulation Conference (QSim), Aug 2023; later version in IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), Sep 2023.
• Building a Constraint Based Domain Specific Language for Quantum Computers: NchooseK by Ellis Wilson, Frank Mueller and Scott Pakin in Quantum Simulation Conference (QSim), Aug 2023.
• Modular Embedding of Problems onto Quantum Annealers by Ellis Wilson, Frank Mueller and Scott Pakin in Adiabatic Quantum Computing (AQC), Jun 2023.

• "Software Techniques for Improving the Accessibility and Performance of NISQ Era Quantum Computing" by E. Wilson, Ph.D. Thesis, North Carolina State University, Apr 2024