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Enjoy today’s breakdown of news, research, & events within quantum.

🤖 🤝 Like Avengers assembling, organizations worldwide are joining to combine quantum computing and AI. Plus, if Feynman diagrams could model fault-tolerance.

🗓️ THIS WEEK

Sunday, June 30 | QTM-X Quantum Education Series 6 of 10

📰 NEWS QUICK BYTES

🧱 Palladium Playdoh: A new method for creating topological superconductors might be just be what we need for error-free quantum computing. A superconducting layer was successfully formed on top of a topological insulator using a "seed" of palladium that ultimately spreads across the insulator's surface at elevated temperatures and forms a new crystalline structure. The resulting material shows zero resistance (think improved qubit coherence and higher qubit connectivity), but further tests are needed to confirm its topological superconductor-ness.

🩹 Quantum as a temporary solve for AI energy crisis, but only if we get there in time: The never-ending demands of generative AI and other related technologies are causing overwhelming energy consumption in data centers. Amidst the exploration of alternative energy sources to reduce consumption stands quantum computing as a potential savior. The technology may offer faster processing capabilities for specific tasks such as drug discovery and financial simulations, provided that we can acheive fault-tolerance and implement the necessary cybersecurity protocols.

⛏️ A riveting tool for quantum workflow execution: Haiqu has just announced the release of Rivet, its open-source toolkit designed to help developers streamline their quantum workflows such as error mitigation and quantum machine learning. Rivet addresses bottlenecks in transpilation which reduces this time from hours to minutes (that’s a lot of $ in terms of computation time). It includes tools for increased control and convenience, such as minimizing qubit usage and debugging. Rivet supports multiple transpiling stacks like Qiskit, BQSKit, and Pytket, and is available on GitHub.

🏋️‍♀️ QML is a combination of epic proportions: Forbes highlights the innovative potential of quantum machine learning to process information more efficiently than classical computers, leading to significant improvement in terms of accuracy and speed as well as new research and applications. In QML, quantum algorithms are used to solve complex problems and manage high-dimensional data. While practical implementations using this technology are already underway, addressing errors and ethical concerns will be a large part of realizing QML's full potential.

🤝 Innovation through collaboration: Newest team-ups within the industry include Giraffe AI Labs Korea and Anzaetek, Inc. to enhance AI-based financial models in the fintech sector using quantum computing. Equal1 and the Irish Centre for High-End Computing are joining hands to promote and advance the combination of HPC and quantum computing across Ireland and Europe. And Mitsui Chemicals joins blueqat Inc. to accelerate the discovery of new applications for its products by integrating natural language processing with quantum computing.

☕️ FRESHLY BREWED RESEARCH

Estimate of the time required to perform a nonadiabatic holonomic quantum computation: A derivation and proof of an isoholonomic inequality for nonadiabatic holonomic quantum computation is presented to establish a theoretical lower bound on the length of cyclic transformations required for holonomic gate implementation. This inequality guarantees time-optimal execution of quantum gates and demonstrates the practical applicability and efficiency of nonadiabatic holonomic quantum computing over adiabatic methods. Breakdown here.

Unifying flavors of fault tolerance with the ZX calculus: A unified framework for fault-tolerant quantum computation is presented, based on ZX calculus. Circuit-based, measurement-based, fusion-based, and Floquet-based models are compared to identify a common structure. This not only highlights the shared stabilizer fault-tolerance properties among these models, but also contributes to the visualization and simplification of complex fault-tolerance protocols. Breakdown here.

Probabilistic error cancellation for dynamic quantum circuits: A new technique to reduce errors in dynamic quantum circuits is presented, coined Probabilistic Error Cancellation. While previously used only for simpler circuits without midcircuit changes, the researchers extended PEC to handle more complex operations and demonstrated that it effectively reduces errors, even when there is interference between qubits.

Arbitrary quantum circuits on a fully integrated two-qubit computation register for a trapped-ion quantum processor: Versatile quantum circuits are implemented using a fully integrated two-qubit system in a trapped-ion quantum processor. This system uses microwave technology to control and manipulate the qubits and acheives high-fidelity quantum gates. This is applicable in the trek towards scalable quantum computing using trapped ions by allowing for more complex quantum operations.

UNTIL TOMORROW.

BREAKDOWN

Estimate of the time required to perform a nonadiabatic holonomic quantum computation

🔍️ SIGNIFICANCE: 

• Adiabatic computing slowly evolves a quantum system’s Hamiltonian so that it remains in its ground state throughout computation. Nonadiabatic computing, on the other hand, performs computations using quantum gates to more rapidly manipulate qubits.

• Holonomies are non-Abelian geometric phases. Holonomic computing uses these geometric phases, acquired over cyclical evolutions of a system’s state, to implement logic gates.

• Combining these frameworks, adiabatic holonomic computing is limited due to the slow process which makes it susceptible to external disturbances. Non-adiabatic holonomic computing is proposed as a way to implement quantum logic gates, quickly. This means retaining both computational speed as well as noise resilience.

• In the derivation presented in the paper, the isoholonomic inequality is established, providing a theoretical lower bound on the length of cyclic transformations of the computational space. This inequality serves as the 'minimum distance' required to implement a holonomic gate, ensuring that the gate is executed in a time-optimal manner.

🧪 METHODOLOGY: 

• The research revolves primarily around establishing an isoholonomic inequality that sets a lower bound on the lengths of cyclic transformations in the computational space to generate specific gates.

• This involved formulating and proving the isoholonomic inequality, deriving a runtime bound based on the inequality, and applying the theory to pracitcal applications.

📊 OUTCOMES & OUTLOOK: 

• Overall, the derived isoholonomic inequality provides a minimum length for cyclic transformations of the computational space, giving a theoretical lower bound on the time required for holonomic gate execution.

• The inequality is proven to be tight under certain conditions, which means that the derived bounds are achievable in practical scenarios.

• Ultimately, the results show that non-adiabatic holonomic computing can achieve faster computations without compromising on robustness. And, the geometric facet of the holonomic gates suggests that it will be highly resilient to noise.

BREAKDOWN

Unifying flavors of fault tolerance with the ZX calculus

🔍️ SIGNIFICANCE: 

• Over the years, we’ve identified several models of quantum computation that exhibit promising features in terms of fault-tolerance computation. This paper compiles those models and seeks out a commonality among them using ZX calculus. By providing a framework for unification, this research may help researchers who are familiar with one model more easily understand similar models. And along the same lines, by visualizing a pattern among concepts, we may more easily accelerate fault-tolerant quantum computing.

🧪 METHODOLOGY: 

• The four models of fault-tolerant quantum computation considered for analysis were circuit-based, measurement-based, fusion-based, and Floquet-based. Commonalities were demonstrated using ZX calculus, which is a graphical language for representing quantum circuits and computations that can depict tensor networks and their transformations.

• A set of local equivalence transformations are developed in order to carry out the mapping between the different models.

• Pauli webs are introduced as a graphical overlay notation to identify checks and stabilizers within ZX diagrams.

📊 OUTCOMES & OUTLOOK: 

• After thorough analysis, it’s found that circuit-based, measurement-based, fusion-based, and Floquet-based quantum computation models share a common structural foundation and can be described within the same stabilizer fault-tolerance framework using ZX diagrams.

• With the unified framework, progress made towards one model can be adapted to the other models.

• Similar to Feynman diagrams and quantum field theory, the visual representation of these protocols using ZX diagrams can make it more intuitive to teach and learn about fault-tolerant quantum computing.