3.1 Executive Session: Design Automation for Quantum Computing
Date: Tuesday 20 March 2018
Time: 14:30 - 16:00
Location / Room: Saal 2
Chair:
Charbon Edoardo, TU Delft / EPFL, NL
Co-Chair:
Große Daniel, University of Bremen, DE
Recent developments in quantum hardware indicate that systems featuring more than 50 physical qubits are within reach. At this scale, classical simulation will no longer be feasible and there is a possibility that such quantum devices may outperform even classical supercomputers at certain tasks. With the rapid growth of qubit numbers and coherence times comes the increasingly difficult challenge of quantum program compilation. This entails the translation of a high-level description of a quantum algorithm to hardware-specific low-level operations which can be carried out by the quantum device. Some parts of the calculation may still be performed manually due to the lack of efficient methods. This, in turn, may lead to a design gap, which will prevent the programming of a quantum computer. In this session, we discuss the challenges in fully-automatic quantum compilation. We motivate directions for future research to tackle these challenges. Yet, with the algorithms and approaches that exist today, we demonstrate how to automatically perform the quantum programming flow from algorithm to a physical quantum computer for a simple algorithmic benchmark, namely the hidden shift problem. We present and use two tool flows which invoke RevKit. One which is based on ProjectQ and which targets the IBM Quantum Experience or a local simulator, and one which is based on Microsoft's quantum programming language Q#.
| Time | Label | Presentation Title Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 14:30 | 3.1.1 | QUANTUM ALGORITHMS: THE QUEST FOR SCALABLE PROGRAMMING, SYNTHESIS, AND TEST Author: Martin Roetteler, Microsoft, US Abstract tbd |
| 15:00 | 3.1.2 | PROJECTQ: A SOFTWARE FRAMEWORK FOR PROGRAMMING QUANTUM COMPUTERS Author: Thomas Haener, ETHZ, CH Abstract tbd |
| 15:30 | 3.1.3 | REVKIT: AUTOMATIC COMPILATION AND DESIGN SPACE EXPLORATION FOR QUANTUM PROGRAMS Author: Mathias Soeken, Integrated System Laboratory – EPFL, CH Abstract tbd |
| 16:00 | End of session Coffee Break in Exhibition Area
On all conference days (Tuesday to Thursday), coffee and tea will be served during the coffee breaks at the below-mentioned times in the exhibition area (Terrace Level of the ICCD). Lunch Breaks (Großer Saal + Saal 1)On all conference days (Tuesday to Thursday), a seated lunch (lunch buffet) will be offered in the rooms "Großer Saal" and "Saal 1" (Saal Level of the ICCD) to fully registered conference delegates only. There will be badge control at the entrance to the lunch break area. Tuesday, March 20, 2018
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