5/18/2018 Meeting notes

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Last updated: May 29, 2018 by Parixit Dave

Date

Meeting goals

  • Explore, connect and learn about quantum computing

Attendees

  • Katayun Barmak
  • Thomas Barrerr
  • Agron Bauta

  • Alex Bergier

  • Jim Bossio

  • Nicholas Buonincontri

  • Richard Campbell

  • Tzvi Abel Chajet

  • May Chin

  • Tom Chow

  • Aurora Collado

  • Gabriella Corbo

  • Lacarnly Creech

  • Parixit Dave
  • Michael DeMeo
  • Chris Dowden
  • Carmine Elvezio
  • Markeisha Ensley
  • Andrew Flatgard
  • Brian Gardner

  • Irina F. Guletsky

  • John Guy
  • Ian Headley
  • Lokke Highstein

  • Lior Horesh

  • Arkadiy Izberskiy

  • Andrew Johnston

  • Frida Lekhter

  • Frank Ling

  • Mark Lu
  • Greg Maskel
  • Kyle Mandli
  • Ron Miguel
  • David Park
  • Hoi Pham
  • Dalibor Plavsic
  • Pawel Polak
  • Solomon Prophete
  • Matt Quint
  • Mohammad Rahman
  • Satish Rao
  • Marc Raymond
  • Jess Rowe
  • Georgelle Russell
  • Letty Moss-Salentijn
  • Ellen Schwartz
  • Mehmet Hazar Seren
  • Satwinder Singh
  • Blake Stoner
  • Faisal Tahir
  • Tom Theis
  • Kirsten Thien
  • Jorge Villa
  • Eric Vlach
  • Michael Weisner
  • Stacy Whelley

  • Shangmin Xiong

  • Kefeng Ying

Purpose

  • To collaborate and share information amongst groups engaged in emerging technologies by discussing and documenting best practices, challenges, and standards and by developing support structure, sharing resources and learning from each other
  • To foster and support innovation by identifying and engaging forward thinkers interested in getting started  and by promoting creative thinking and cross-disciplinary collaborations
  • To publicize new initiatives and projects as an aggressive marketing strategy to invite industry partners and set up potential collaborations and/or to seek corporate sponsorship

Action items from previous meeting:

Today's Agenda

TimeItemWhoNotes
15 minsOpen network and discussion/welcome

Maneesha Aggarwal & Parixit Davé



75 minsPresentation

IBM Research - An Introduction to Quantum Computing

Quantum Computing and IBM Q: An Introduction

Scott Crowder, VP IBM Q

CTO &VP, Technical Strategy & Transformation, IBM Systems

A New Style of Computing

Built on the principles of quantum mechanics, quantum computers take a new approach to processing information.  We expect them to open doors that we once thought would remain locked indefinitely.

  • 2 major differences from classical computing
    • exponential scaling
    • access to internet
  • Exponential scaling
    • solving problems that classical computing can't - problems with a runtime that grows exponentially and factoring
  • How do quantum computers work?
    • superposition - can put in a definite state b/w 1 and 0
    • entanglement - state of qubits can't be described independently of each other
  • Types of quantum computers
    • D-Wave Annealing
    • Approximate Universal Quantum Computing
    • Fault-tolerant Universal Quantum Computer
  • Performance metric benchmark
    • effective error + number of qubits
  • IBM Next Steps
    • Q experience - publicly available now designed for education
    • QISKit - open source software, program in Python api to quantum computer, results in Jupyterhub
    • Q Network - partnership program
  • IBM Quantum Experience launched in 2016
    • 5 & 16 qubit systems available
    • Github software
    • 85,000 + users, 4,400,000 + experiments
  • IBM Q Network - launched Dec. 2017
    • accelerate research, launch commercial applications, educate and prepare