Lecture Notes and Reading Material

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Introduction PPT
- The Most Awesome Animation About Quantum Computers You Will Ever See by John Preskill and Spiros Michalakis.
Quantum Annealing PPT
- Quantum annealing with more than one hundred qubits by Boixo et al. in arXiv:1304.4595v1.
D-Wave Programming PPT
- Quantum Apprentice Worksheet
- Problem Formulation Guide, D-Wave whitepaper, Jan 10, 2022
- A Simple Heuristic for Expressing a Truth Table as a Quadratic Pseudo-Boolean Function by Scott Pakin in IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE) 2021
Foundations: Linear Algebra and Quantum Mechanics PPT
Quantum gates and Circuits and Quantum Mechanics PPT and video with passcode: .cG%KyC3
Programming with IBM Qiskit PPT
Quantum Algorithms PPT
Advanced Quantum Algorithms PPT
Oct 28 at 10am: IBM webinar "Multi-Core Quantum Computation with Optical Interconnects" like based on the paper "The Future of Quantum Computing with Superconducting Qubits" by Sergey Bravyi, Oliver Dial, Jay M. Gambetta, Dario Gil, Zaira Nazario, arXiv:2209.06841
Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) Computing PPT
Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQA) PPT
Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) PPT
- Qiskit Textbook VQE
- "A variational eigenvalue solver on a photonic quantum processor" by Peruzzo, Alberto; McClean, Jarrod; Shadbolt, Peter; Yung, Man-Hong; Zhou, Xiao-Qi; Love, Peter J.; Aspuru-Guzik, Alán; O’Brien, Jeremy L. in Nature Communications. 5 (1): 4213 (2014).
Quantum Approxiamte Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) PPT
- QAOA p=1 (Quirk)
- QAOA p=2 (Quirk)
- Qiskit textbook QAOA
- Qiskit Runtime QAOA
- A Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm by Edward Farhi, Jeffrey Goldstone, Sam Gutmann in MIT-CTP/4610 and arXiv:1411.4028v1 (2014)
NISQ Research Part 1 PPT
- ScaffCC: A Framework for Compilation and Analysis of Quantum Computing Programs. Ali JavadiAbhari, Shruti Patil, Daniel Kudrow, Jeff Heckey, Alexey Lvov, Frederic T. Chong, Margaret Martonosi in Frontiers'14. Best Paper Award. ScaffCC on github.
- Full-Stack, Real-System Quantum Computer Studies: Architectural Comparisons and Design Insights. by P. Murali, N. M. Linke, M. Martonosi, A. J. Abhari, N. H. Nguyen, C. H. Alderete. International Symposium on Computer Architecture in ISCA'19
- Tackling the Qubit Mapping Problem for NISQ-Era Quantum Devices by Gushu Li, Yufei Ding, Yuan Xie in ASPLOS'19
- Not all SWAPs Have the Same Cost by Ji Liu, Peiyi Li, Huiyang Zhou in HPCA'22
- Optimal Qubit Mapping with Simultaneous Gate Absorption by Bochen Tan, Jason Cong in ICCAD'21
- Paulihedral: A Generalized Block-Wise Compiler Optimization Framework For Quantum Simulation Kernels by Gushu Li, Anbang Wu, Yunong Shi, Ali Javadi-Abhari, Yufei Ding, Yuan Xie in ASPLOS'22
NISQ Research Part 2 PPT
- Ensemble of Diverse Mappings: Improving Reliability of Quantum Computers by Orchestrating Dissimilar Mistakes by Swamit Tannu and Moinuddin Qureshi, in MICRO'19
- Mitigating Measurement Errors in Quantum Computers by Exploiting State-Dependent Bias by Swamit Tannu and Moinuddin Qureshi, In proc. of 52nd Intl. Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Oct 2019 Just-in-time Quantum Circuit Transpilation Reduces Noise by Ellis Wilson, Sudhakar Singh, Frank Mueller in QCE'20 Mitiq: A software package for error mitigation on noisy quantum computers by Ryan LaRose, Andrea Mari, Sarah Kaiser, Peter J. Karalekas, Andre A. Alves, Piotr Czarnik, Mohamed El Mandouh, Max H. Gordon, Yousef Hindy, Aaron Robertson, Purva Thakre, Misty Wahl, Danny Samuel, Rahul Mistri, Maxime Tremblay, Nick Gardner, Nathaniel T. Stemen, Nathan Shammah, William J. Zeng in QCE'22 https://arcb.csc.ncsu.edu/~mueller/ftp/pub/mueller/papers/sc22.pdf"Empirical Evaluation of Circuit Approximations on Noisy Quantum Devices" by Ellis Wilson, Frank Mueller, Lindsay Bassman, Constin Iancu, in SC'21