NQVL:QTSD:Pilot: Quantum Advantage-Class Trapped Ion system (QACTI)

funded by: NSF
(phase 1 award abstract) via subcontract from Duke U.
- funding level: $100,000
- duration: 08/29/2024 - 07/31/2025
- lead PI: Ken Brown, Duke
- accouncement

The primary goal of the QACTI quantum system and technology demonstrator is to build an advantage-class trapped-ion quantum-computer capable of being used by the broader scientific community remotely. The secondary goals are to discover algorithms suited for near-term quantum computers, improve and democratize ion trap quantum technology, and develop a workforce capable of utilizing and building advantage-class machines.These goals only become achievable by performing device-oriented experiments at fine-grained control levels that are not available on commercial platforms, thereby contributing to the development of a combined hardware/software stack in an open-source manner.

Publications:

Genesis: A Compiler for Hamiltonian Simulation on Hybrid CV-DV Quantum Computers by Zihan Chen, Jiakang Li, Minghao Guo, Henry Chen, Zirui Li, Joel Bierman, Yipeng Huang, Huiyang Zhou, Yuan Liu, Eddy Z. Zhang, ISCA '25: Proceedings of the 52nd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Pages 1583 - 1597, Jun 2025.
Synthesis of Approximate Parametric Circuits for Variational Quantum Algorithms by Blake Burgstahler, Frank Mueller and Scott Pakin in IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), Sep 2024.
OpenMP-Q: Quantum Task Offloading in OpenMP by Swastik Mittal, Atulya Mahesh, Frank Mueller in International Workshop on OpenMP, Oct 2025.
CONQURE: A Co-Execution Environment for Quantum and Classical Resources by Atulya Mahesh, Frank Mueller in International Workshop on Integrating High-Performance and Quantum Computing, Sep 2025.
Currency Arbitrage Optimization using Quantum Annealing, QAOA and Constraint Mapping Sangram Deshpande, Elin Ranjan Das and Frank Mueller in Quantum Computing Applications in Economics and Finance Conference (QCAEFC), Apr 2025, Preprint arXiv:2502.15742
Fully Parallelized BP Decoding for Quantum LDPC Codes Can Outperform BP-OSD by Ming Wang, Ang Li and Frank Mueller in ArXiv 2507.00254, Jun 2025.
CONQURE: A Co-Execution Environment for Quantum and Classical Resources by Atulya Mahesh, Swastik Mittal, Frank Mueller in arXiv:2505.02241, May 2025.
Assessing Teleportation of Logical Qubits in a Distributed Quantum Architecture under Error Correction by John Stack, Ming Wang and Frank Mueller in arXiv:2504.05611, Apr 2025.
Coprime Bivariate Bicycle Codes and their Properties by Ming Wang and Frank Mueller, Refereed poster in Quantum Information Processing Conference (QIP), 2025. See also ArXiv 2408.10001, Aug/Nov 2024.
Currency Arbitrage Optimization using Quantum Annealing, QAOA and Constraint Mapping by Sangram Deshpande, Elin Ranjan Das and Frank Mueller in arXiv:2502.15742, Feb 2025.
Coprime Bivariate Bicycle Codes and their Properties by Ming Wang and Frank Mueller in ArXiv 2408.10001, Aug/Nov 2024.

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"This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2410675."

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