{"id":1890,"date":"2021-02-15T23:06:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T23:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qce21.computer.org\/?p=1890"},"modified":"2021-10-17T14:24:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T14:24:39","slug":"technical-papers-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qce.quantum.ieee.org\/2021\/blog\/2021\/02\/15\/technical-papers-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Technical Papers Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1890\" class=\"elementor elementor-1890\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-88aae7e elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"88aae7e\" data-element_type=\"section\" 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Technical papers are peer-reviewed, can be on any topic related to quantum computing and engineering, and will be considered by one of the following technical paper tracks.<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0<\/span>\n<h3>Technical Paper Tracks<\/h3>\n<ul>\n \t<li>Quantum Computing &amp; Systems (QCS)<\/li>\n \t<li>Quantum Algorithms &amp; Applications (QAA)<\/li>\n \t<li>Quantum Networking &amp; Communications (QNC)<\/li>\n \t<li>Quantum Engineering, Devices &amp; Sensing (QEDS)<\/li>\n \t<li>Quantum Workforce &amp; Society (QWS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Contact<\/h3>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 16px; background-color: #ffffff;\">\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Program Board Chair:<\/span>\u00a0Greg Byrd, NC State University \u2014\u00a0<a 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elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-210667e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"210667e\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-20 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-dc60d02\" data-id=\"dc60d02\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-260a5ff elementor-widget elementor-widget-template\" data-id=\"260a5ff\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"template.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-template\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"page\" data-elementor-id=\"11695\" class=\"elementor elementor-11695\" data-elementor-post-type=\"elementor_library\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5d16030 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5d16030\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c3d9da1\" data-id=\"c3d9da1\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e19b1cf elementor-widget elementor-widget-template\" data-id=\"e19b1cf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"template.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-template\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"page\" data-elementor-id=\"11691\" class=\"elementor elementor-11691\" data-elementor-post-type=\"elementor_library\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6a7bd57 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6a7bd57\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a0e106c\" data-id=\"a0e106c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-88cf0bd elementor-button-success elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"88cf0bd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/ieeecsqce.wpengine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\"><big>Participate<br>in QCE22<\/big><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-20 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c1aab1a\" data-id=\"c1aab1a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6382b0d elementor-widget elementor-widget-template\" data-id=\"6382b0d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"template.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-template\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"page\" data-elementor-id=\"11166\" class=\"elementor elementor-11166\" data-elementor-post-type=\"elementor_library\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5d16030 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5d16030\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c3d9da1\" data-id=\"c3d9da1\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e19b1cf elementor-widget elementor-widget-template\" data-id=\"e19b1cf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"template.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-template\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"page\" data-elementor-id=\"11163\" class=\"elementor elementor-11163\" data-elementor-post-type=\"elementor_library\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0f41a16 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0f41a16\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2ffc030\" data-id=\"2ffc030\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4f3ccf3 elementor-align-center elementor-mobile-align-justify elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-tablet-align-justify elementor-button-success elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"4f3ccf3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-lg\" href=\"https:\/\/ieeecs-media.computer.org\/media\/conferences\/resources\/quantum-program-2021.pdf\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Fancy Final Program<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-20 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-73f8f72\" data-id=\"73f8f72\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a2c240f elementor-widget elementor-widget-template\" data-id=\"a2c240f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"template.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-template\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"page\" data-elementor-id=\"10039\" class=\"elementor elementor-10039\" data-elementor-post-type=\"elementor_library\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5d16030 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5d16030\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c3d9da1\" data-id=\"c3d9da1\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e19b1cf elementor-widget elementor-widget-template\" data-id=\"e19b1cf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"template.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-template\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"page\" data-elementor-id=\"10036\" class=\"elementor elementor-10036\" data-elementor-post-type=\"elementor_library\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0f41a16 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0f41a16\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2ffc030\" data-id=\"2ffc030\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4f3ccf3 elementor-align-center elementor-mobile-align-justify elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-tablet-align-justify elementor-button-success elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"4f3ccf3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-lg\" href=\"https:\/\/ieeecsqce.wpengine.com\/2021\/program\/#\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Final<br>Program<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-20 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-bb98b2a\" data-id=\"bb98b2a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bdcc615 elementor-widget elementor-widget-template\" data-id=\"bdcc615\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"template.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-template\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"page\" data-elementor-id=\"8994\" class=\"elementor elementor-8994\" data-elementor-post-type=\"elementor_library\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5d16030 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5d16030\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c3d9da1\" data-id=\"c3d9da1\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e19b1cf elementor-widget elementor-widget-template\" data-id=\"e19b1cf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"template.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-template\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"page\" data-elementor-id=\"8989\" class=\"elementor elementor-8989\" data-elementor-post-type=\"elementor_library\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0f41a16 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0f41a16\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2ffc030\" data-id=\"2ffc030\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4f3ccf3 elementor-align-center elementor-mobile-align-justify elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-tablet-align-justify elementor-button-info elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"4f3ccf3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-lg\" href=\"https:\/\/ieeecsqce.wpengine.com\/2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/QCE21-Final-Program-at-a-Glance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Program-at-a-Glance<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-20 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-bff3e7e\" data-id=\"bff3e7e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b4aac70 elementor-widget elementor-widget-template\" data-id=\"b4aac70\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"template.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-template\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"page\" data-elementor-id=\"11695\" class=\"elementor elementor-11695\" data-elementor-post-type=\"elementor_library\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5d16030 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5d16030\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c3d9da1\" data-id=\"c3d9da1\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e19b1cf elementor-widget elementor-widget-template\" data-id=\"e19b1cf\" 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Linz), Charles Hadfield (IBM Quantum), Rudy Raymond (IBM Quantum), Antonia Mezzacapo (IBM Quantum), Robert Wille (Johannes Kepler Univ. Linz)<br><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Multi-car Paint Shop Optimization with Quantum Annealing<\/span><br>Sheir Yarkoni, Alex Alekseyenko, Michael Streif, David Von Dollen, Florian Neukart (Volkswagen), Thomas B\u00e4ck (Leiden Univ.)<br><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">The Effect of Noise on the Performance of Variational Algorithms for Quantum Chemistry<\/span><br> Waheeda Saib (IBM Quantum), Petros Wallden (Univ. of Edinburgh), Ismail Akhalwaya (IBM Research)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7c81e4c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7c81e4c\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-124d447\" data-id=\"124d447\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-da81b76 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"da81b76\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QAA-3\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Mon, Oct 18 @ 15:15-16:45 \u2014 QAA-3: Quantum Algorithms &amp; Applications 3\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-down\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QAA-3\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMon, Oct 18 @ 15:15-16:45 \u2014 QAA-3: Quantum Algorithms &amp; Applications 3\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">A Simple Method for Sampling Random Clifford Operators<\/span><br>Ewout van den Berg (IBM Quantum)<br><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">PT-Enhanced Bayesian Parameter Estimation<\/span><br>Yaroslav Balytskyi, Manohar Raavi, Sang-Yoon Chang (Univ. 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Lab), Shuai Xu (Case Western Reserve Univ.)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-baaa950 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"baaa950\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2884525\" data-id=\"2884525\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bf41445 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"bf41445\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QCS-1\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Tue, Oct 19 @ 10:45-12:15 \u2014 QCS-1: Quantum Computing &amp; Systems 1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-down\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QCS-1\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTue, Oct 19 @ 10:45-12:15 \u2014 QCS-1: Quantum Computing &amp; Systems 1\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Sampling Strategy Optimization for Randomized Benchmarking<\/span><br>Toshinari Itoko, Rudy Raymond (IBM Quantum)<br><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Hybrid Schr\u00f6dinger-Feynman Simulation of Quantum Circuits With Decision Diagrams<\/span><br>Lukas Burgholzer, Hartwig Bauer, Robert Wille (Johannes Kepler Univ. Linz)<br><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Sampling on NISQ Devices: \"Who's the Fairest One of All?\"<\/span><br>Elijah Pelofski, John Golden, Andreas B\u00e4rtschi, Daniel O'Malley, Stephan Eidenbenz (Los Alamos Natl. Lab)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-30e0f5a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"30e0f5a\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5483a5c\" data-id=\"5483a5c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c549654 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"c549654\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QCS-2\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Tue, Oct 19 @ 13:00-14:30 \u2014 QCS-2: Quantum Computing &amp; Systems 2\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-down\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QCS-2\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTue, Oct 19 @ 13:00-14:30 \u2014 QCS-2: Quantum Computing &amp; Systems 2\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">A Simple Heuristic for Expressing a Truth Table as a Quadratic Pseudo-Boolean Function<\/span><br>Scott Pakin (Los Alamos Natl. Lab)<br><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Resource Optimal Executable Quantum Circuit Generation Using Approximate Computing<\/span><br>Smaran Adarsh, Matthias M\u00f6ller (Delft Univ. of Tech.)<br><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">QFAST: Conflating Search and Numerical Optimization for Scalable Quantum Circuit Synthesis<\/span><br>Ed Younis (Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab), Koushik Sen (UC-Berkeley), Katherine Yelick (UC-Berkeley), Costin Iancu (LBNL)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7c890e8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7c890e8\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ad1d9d1\" data-id=\"ad1d9d1\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c678a02 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"c678a02\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QCS-3\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Tue, Oct 19 @ 15:15-16:45 \u2014 QCS-3: Quantum Computing &amp; Systems 3\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-down\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QCS-3\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTue, Oct 19 @ 15:15-16:45 \u2014 QCS-3: Quantum Computing &amp; Systems 3\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">A Quantum Computing Programming Language for Transparent Experiment Descriptions<\/span><br>Virginia Frey, Rich Rademacher, Elijah Durso-Sabina, Matthew Day, Noah Greenberg, Nikolay Videnov, Rajibul Islam, Crystal Senko (Univ. of Waterloo)<br><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">A MLIR Dialect for Quantum Assembly Languages<\/span><br>Alexander McCaskey, Thien Nguyen (Oak Ridge Natl. Lab)<br><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Quantum Annealing Stencils with Applications to Fuel Loading of a Nuclear Reactor<\/span><br>Joseph Fustero, Scott Palmtag, Frank Mueller (NC State Univ.)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-068ec96 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"068ec96\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e77bf89\" data-id=\"e77bf89\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-75dbf72 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"75dbf72\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QWS-1\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Tue, Oct 19 @ 10:45-12:15 \u2014 QWS-1: Quantum Workforce &amp; Society 1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-down\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QWS-1\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTue, Oct 19 @ 10:45-12:15 \u2014 QWS-1: Quantum Workforce &amp; Society 1\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">GraphStateVis: Interactive Visual Analysis of Qubit Graph States and their Stabilizer Groups<\/span><br>Matthias Miller (Univ. Konstanz), Daniel Miller (Heinrich-Heine-Univ. D\u00fcsseldorf)<br><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Teaching Quantum Computing with an Interactive Textbook<\/span><br>James Wootton, Francis Harkins, Nick Bronn, Almudena Carrera Vazquez, Anna Phan, Abraham Asfaw (IBM Quantum)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-940235a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"940235a\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5dca1ac\" data-id=\"5dca1ac\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a6dde4d elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"a6dde4d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QWS-2\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Tue, Oct 19 @ 13:00-14:30 \u2014 QWS-2: Quantum Workforce &amp; Society 2\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-down\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QWS-2\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTue, Oct 19 @ 13:00-14:30 \u2014 QWS-2: Quantum Workforce &amp; Society 2\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">IBM-HBCU Quantum Center: A Model for Industry Academic Partnerships for Advancing a Diverse, Quantum Aware Workforces<\/span><br>Kayla Lee (IBM), Thomas Searles (Howard Univ.)<br><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Quantum Computing for Undergraduate Engineering Students: Report of an Experience<\/span><br>Rafael Sotelo, Laura Gatti (Univ. de Montevideo)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-535231e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"535231e\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-de81782\" data-id=\"de81782\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e9b890c elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"e9b890c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QAA-4\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Wed, Oct 20 @ 10:45-12:15 \u2014 QAA-4: Quantum Algorithms &amp; Applications 4\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-down\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QAA-4\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWed, Oct 20 @ 10:45-12:15 \u2014 QAA-4: Quantum Algorithms &amp; Applications 4\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Modified Layerwise Learning for Data Re-uploading Classifier in High-Energy Physics Event Classification<\/span><br>Eraraya Ricardo Muten (Inst. Teknologi Bandung), Togan Tlimakhov Yusuf (Ankara Univ.), Andrei Voicu Tomut (Babe\u015f-Bolyai Univ.)<br><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Quantum Image Representation on Clusters<\/span><br>Arijit Mandal (Visvesvaraya Natl. Instl of Technology), Shreya Banerjee , Prasanta K. Panigrahi (Indian Inst. of Science Ed. and Res.)<br><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Optimizing Parameterized Quantum Circuits with Free-Axis Selection<\/span><br>Hiroshi Watanabe (Keio Univ.), Rudy Raymond (IBM Quantum), Yu-ya Ohnishi (JSR Corp.), Eriko Kaminishi (Keio Univ.), Michihiko Sugawara (Keio Univ.)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a91f1c7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a91f1c7\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-406916d\" data-id=\"406916d\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f5cdf03 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"f5cdf03\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QAA-5\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Wed, Oct 20 @ 13:00-14:30 \u2014 QAA-5: Quantum Algorithms &amp; Applications 5\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-down\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QAA-5\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWed, Oct 20 @ 13:00-14:30 \u2014 QAA-5: Quantum Algorithms &amp; Applications 5\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Simpler (Classical) and Faster (Quantum) Algorithms for Gibbs Partition Functions<\/span><br>Srinivasan Arunachalam, Vojtech Havlicek, Giacommo Nannicini, Kristan Temme, Pawel Wocjan (IBM Quantum)<br><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Photonic Quantum Policy Learning in OpenAI Gym<\/span> <br>D\u00e1niel Nagy (Wigner Res. Ctr for Physics), Zsolt Tabi (Ericsson), P\u00e9ter H\u00e1ga, Zs\u00f3fia Kallus (Ericsson Res.) Zolt\u00e1n Zimbor\u00e1s (Wigner Res. Ctr for Physics)<br><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Towards a Quantum Modeling Approach to Reactive Agents<\/span><br>Abder Koukam, Abdeljalil Abbas-Turki, Vincent Hilaire, Yassine Ruichek (Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comt\u00e9, UTBM)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-de4ee7e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"de4ee7e\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6703078\" data-id=\"6703078\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e603e8b elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"e603e8b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QAA-6\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Wed, Oct 20 @ 15:15-16:45 \u2014 QAA-6: Quantum Algorithms &amp; Applications 6\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-down\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QAA-6\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWed, Oct 20 @ 15:15-16:45 \u2014 QAA-6: Quantum Algorithms &amp; Applications 6\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Threshold-Based Quantum Optimization<\/span><br>John Golden, Andreas B\u00e4rtschi, Dan O'Malley, Stephan Eidenbenz (Los Alamos Natl. Lab)<br><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">A Quantum-Inspired Classical Solver for k-Satisfiability Problems<\/span><br>S. Andrew Lanham, Brian La Cour (ARL, UT Austin)<br><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Numerical Simulations of Noisy Variational Quantum Eigensolver Ansatz Circuits<\/span><br>Meenambika Gowrishankar (Univ. of Tennessee\/ORNL), Daniel Claudino, Jerimiah Wright, Alex McCaskey, Thien Nguyen, Travis Humble (Oak Ridge Natl. Lab)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1e5dddf elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1e5dddf\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-aa919b4\" data-id=\"aa919b4\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ad2d259 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"ad2d259\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QEDS-1\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Wed, Oct 20 @ 13:00-14:30 \u2014 QEDS-1: Quantum Engineering, Devices, and Sensing 1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-down\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QEDS-1\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWed, Oct 20 @ 13:00-14:30 \u2014 QEDS-1: Quantum Engineering, Devices, and Sensing 1\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Practical Implications of SFQ-based Two-qubit Gates<\/span><br>Mohammad Reza Jokar, Richard Rines, Fred Chong (Univ. of Chicago)<br><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Efficient Quantum Gate Discovery with Optimal Control<\/span> <br>Paul Kairys (Univ. of Tennessee), Travis Humble (Oak Ridge Natl. Lab)<br><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Adaptive Circuit Learning for Quantum Metrology<\/span><br>Ziqi Ma, Pranav Gokhale, Tian-Xing Zheng, Sisi Zhou, Xiaofei Yu, Liang Jiang, Peter Maurer, Fred Chong (Univ. of Chicago)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-982f5de elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"982f5de\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ae3ae50\" data-id=\"ae3ae50\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e38d33a elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"e38d33a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QEDS-2\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Wed, Oct 20 @ 15:15-16:45 \u2014 QEDS-2: Quantum Engineering, Devices, and Sensing 2\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-down\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QEDS-2\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWed, Oct 20 @ 15:15-16:45 \u2014 QEDS-2: Quantum Engineering, Devices, and Sensing 2\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Quantum Engineering of Nitrogen Vacancy Diamond Magnetometers (Invited Presentation)<\/span><br>Danielle Braje (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)<br><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Perspectives and Progress on Scaling Subsystems for Trapped-Ion Quantum Computing (Invited Presentation)<\/span> <br>Steve Sanders (Honeywell Quantum Solutions)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2b31c14 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2b31c14\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7dfcbd6\" data-id=\"7dfcbd6\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7993a25 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"7993a25\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QNC-1\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Thu, Oct 21 @ 10:45-12:15 \u2014 QNC-1: Quantum Networking &amp; Communications 1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-down\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QNC-1\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThu, Oct 21 @ 10:45-12:15 \u2014 QNC-1: Quantum Networking &amp; Communications 1\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Optically Active Nanophotonic Spin Systems in Diamond as Resource for Quantum Communication (Invited Presentation)<\/span><br>Tim Schr\u00f6der (Humbold-Univ. zu Berlin)<br><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Distance-Independent Entanglement Generation in a Quantum Network using Space-Time Multiplexed Greenberger\u2013Horne\u2013Zeilinger (GHZ) Measurements<\/span><br>Ashlesha Patil, Joshua I. Jacobson, Emily Van Milligen (Univ. of Arizona), Don Towsley (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst), Saikat Guha (Univ. of Arizona)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8d7ec84 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8d7ec84\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a4e25ca\" data-id=\"a4e25ca\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-825d595 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"825d595\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QNC-2\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Thu, Oct 21 @ 13:00-14:30 \u2014 QNC-2: Quantum Networking &amp; Communications 2\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-down\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QNC-2\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThu, Oct 21 @ 13:00-14:30 \u2014 QNC-2: Quantum Networking &amp; Communications 2\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">A Quantum-Walk Control Plane for Distributed Quantum Computing in Quantum Networks<\/span><br>Matheus Guedes de Andrade (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst), Saikat Guha (Univ. of Arizona), Don Towsley, Wenhan Dai (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst)<br><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Distributing Graph States Across Quantum Networks<\/span> <br>Alex Fischer, Don Towsley (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst)<br><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Towards Optical Quantum Networks with Rare Earth Ions (Invited Presentation)<\/span><br>Andrei Faraon, Andrei Ruskuc, Chun Ju Wu, Jake Rochman, Tian Xie, Mi Lei, Rikuto Fukumori, Daniel Riedel (California Inst. of Technology)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-78db2e0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"78db2e0\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-de962c4\" data-id=\"de962c4\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ed78369 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"ed78369\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QNC-3\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Thu, Oct 21 @ 15:15-16:45 \u2014 QNC-3: Quantum Networking &amp; Communications 3\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-down\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QNC-3\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThu, Oct 21 @ 15:15-16:45 \u2014 QNC-3: Quantum Networking &amp; Communications 3\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Password Authentication Schemes on a Quantum Computer<\/span><br>Sherry Wang, Carlisle Adams, Anne Broadbent (Univ. of Ottawa)<br><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Performance Analysis of the Quantum Safe Multivariate Polynomial Public Key Algorithm<\/span><br>Randy Kuang, Michel Barbeau (Quantropi)<br><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Pseudo Quantum Random Number Generator with Quantum Permutation Pad<\/span><br>Randy Kuang, Dafu Lou, Alex He, Chris McKenzie, Michael Redding (Quantropi)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4a92528 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4a92528\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b704e36\" data-id=\"b704e36\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fdf1dc0 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"fdf1dc0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QNC-4\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Fri, Oct 22 @ 10:45-12:15 \u2014 QNC-4: Quantum Networking &amp; Communications 4\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-down\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QNC-4\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFri, Oct 22 @ 10:45-12:15 \u2014 QNC-4: Quantum Networking &amp; Communications 4\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">The Quantum Internet: A Communication Engineering Perspective (Invited Presentation)<\/span><br>Marcello Caleffi, Jessica Illiano, Seid Koudia, Angela Sara Cacciapuoti (Univ. of Naples Federico II)<br><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Networking Trapped-Ion Quantum Computers (Invited Presentation)<\/span><br>Chris Ballance (Univ. of Oxford)<br><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">A Complete Quantum Circuit to Solve the Information Set Decoding Problem<\/span><br>Simone Perriello, Alessandro Barenghi, Gerardo Pelosi (Polytecnico di Milano)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7a99553 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7a99553\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-959615c\" data-id=\"959615c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a239469 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"a239469\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QAA-7\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Fri, Oct 22 @ 13:00-14:30 \u2014 QAA-7: Quantum Algorithms &amp; Applications 7\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-down\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QAA-7\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFri, Oct 22 @ 13:00-14:30 \u2014 QAA-7: Quantum Algorithms &amp; Applications 7\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Quantum Optimization Heuristics with an Application to Knapsack Problems<\/span><br>Wim van Dam (UC-Santa Barbara), Karim Eldefrawy, Nicholas Genise (SRI Intl.), Natalie Parham (Univ. of Waterloo)<br><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Transferability of Optimal QAOA Parameters between Random Graphs<\/span><br>Alexey Galda (Univ. of Chicago), Danylo Lykov (Argonne Natl. Lab), Xiaoyuan Liu, Ilya Safro (Univ. of Delaware), Yuri Alexeev (Argonne Natl. Lab)<br><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Adapting Quantum Approximation Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) for Unit Commitment<\/span><br>Samantha Koretsky (Univ. of Chicago), Pranav Gokhale (Super.tech), Jonathan Baker, Joshua Viszlai (Univ. of Chicago), Hanhao Zheng, Niroj Gurung, Ruan Burg, Aleksi Paaso (Commonwealth Edison), Amin Khodaei (Univ. of Denver), Rozhin Eskandarpour (Resilient Entanglement), Fred Chong (Univ. of Chicago)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6b31888 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6b31888\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d637db9\" data-id=\"d637db9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-644459b elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"644459b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QCS-4\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Fri, Oct 22 @ 15:15-16:45 \u2014 QCS-4: Quantum Computing &amp; Systems 4\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-down\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#QCS-4\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFri, Oct 22 @ 15:15-16:45 \u2014 QCS-4: Quantum Computing &amp; Systems 4\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Quantum Fan-out: Circuit Optimizations and Technology Modeling<\/span><br>Pranav Gokhale (Super.tech), Samantha Koretsky (Univ. of Chicago), Shilin Huang, Swarnadeep Majumder (Duke Univ.), Andrew Drucer (Univ. of Chicago), Kenneth Brown (Duke Univ.), Fred Chong (Univ. of Chicago)<br><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Error Mitigation for Deep Quantum Optimization Circuits by Leveraging Problem Symmetries<\/span><br>Ruslan Shaydulin (Argonne Natl. Lab), Alexey Galda (Univ. of Chicago)<br><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Adaptive Job and Resource Management for the Growing Quantum Cloud<\/span><br>Gokul Subramanian, Kaitlin Smith (Univ. of Chicago), Prakash Murali (Princeton Univ.), Fred Chong (Univ. of Chicago)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e8af529 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e8af529\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2e5d9df\" data-id=\"2e5d9df\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6cb6e55 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"6cb6e55\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b24177e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b24177e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<hr style=\"background: #F87431; border: 0; height: 7px;\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b7cd2c9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"b7cd2c9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">QCE21 Technical Paper Abstracts<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ee24085 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ee24085\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4ba1061\" data-id=\"4ba1061\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4219800 elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"4219800\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"QAA-1\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5dc8ee4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"5dc8ee4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7b35212 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7b35212\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<hr style=\"background: #F87431; border: 0; height: 3px;\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-8f64b9d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8f64b9d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-21b2223\" data-id=\"21b2223\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2c0f071 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"2c0f071\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Mon, Oct 18 @ 10:45-12:15 \u2014 QAA-1: Quantum Algorithms &amp; Applications 1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMon, Oct 18 @ 10:45-12:15 \u2014 QAA-1: Quantum Algorithms &amp; Applications 1\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Normalized Gradient Descent for Variational Quantum Algorithms<\/span><br>Yudai Suzuki (Keio Univ.), Hiroshi Yano (Keio Univ.), Rudy Raymond (IBM Quantum), Naoki Yamamoto (Keio Univ.)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-49cf0b7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"49cf0b7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">10:45-11:15 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c54c887 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c54c887\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) are promising methods that leverage noisy quantum computers and classical computing techniques for practical applications. In VQAs, the classical optimizers such as gradient-based optimizers are utilized to adjust the parameters of the quantum circuit so that the objective function is minimized. However, they often suffer from the so-called vanishing gradient or barren plateau issue. On the other hand, the normalized gradient descent (NGD) method, which employs the normalized gradient vector to update the parameters, has been successfully utilized in several optimization problems. Here, we study the performance of the NGD methods in the optimization of VQAs for the first time. Our goal is two-fold. The first is to examine the effectiveness of NGD and its variants for overcoming the vanishing gradient problems. The second is to propose a new NGD that can attain the faster convergence than the ordinary NGD. We performed numerical simulations of these gradient-based optimizers in the context of quantum chemistry where VQAs are used to find the ground state of a given Hamiltonian. The results show the effective convergence property of the NGD methods in VQAs, compared to the relevant optimizers without normalization. Moreover, we make use of some normalized gradient vectors at the past iteration steps to propose the novel historical NGD that has a theoretical guarantee to accelerate the convergence speed, which is observed in the numerical experiments as well.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-84d1bf5 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"84d1bf5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Parameters Fixing Strategy for Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm<\/span><br>Xinwei Lee (Univ. of Tsukuba), Yoshiyuki Saito (Univ. of Aizu), Dongsheng Cai (Univ. of Tsukuba), Nobuyoshi Asai (Univ. of Aizu)<br>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-516b162 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"516b162\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">11:15-11:45 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8652c4e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8652c4e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) has numerous promising applications in solving the combinatorial optimization problems on near-term Noisy Intermediate Scalable Quantum (NISQ) devices. QAOA has a quantum-classical hybrid structure. Its quantum part consists of a parameterized alternating operator ansatz, and its classical part consists of an optimization algorithm, which optimizes the parameters to maximize the expectation value of the problem Hamiltonian. This expectation value depends highly on the parameters. This implies that a set of good parameters leads to an accurate solution. However, at large circuit depth of QAOA, it is difficult to achieve global optimization due to the multiple occurrences of local minima or maxima. In this paper, we propose a parameters fixing strategy which gives high approximation ratio on average, even at large circuit depths, by initializing QAOA with the optimal parameters obtained from the previous depths. We test our strategy on the Max-cut problem of a certain classes<br \/>of graphs such as the 3-regular graphs and the Erd\u00f6s-R\u00e9nyi graphs.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-63a6de5 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"63a6de5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Quantum-inspired Algorithm for Vehicle Sharing Problem<\/span><br>Whei Yeap Suen, Chun Yat Lee, Hoong Chuin Lau (Singapore Mgmt. Univ.)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b8bf00f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b8bf00f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">11:45-12:15 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1a71c71 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1a71c71\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Recent developments in quantum technologies have inspired a myriad of special-purpose hardwares tasked to solve optimization problems. In this paper, we explore the application of Fujitsu\u2019s quantum-inspired CMOS-based Digital Annealer (DA) in solving constrained routing problems arising in transportation and logistics. More precisely, we study the vehicle sharing problem and show that DA as a QUBO solver can potentially fill the gap between two common methods: exact solvers like Cplex and heuristics. We benchmark the scalability and quality of solutions obtained by DA with Cplex and with a greedy heuristic. Our results show that DA is a general QUBO solver that is more robust than heuristics, and more scalable than Cplex. Our methodology and framework is also directly applicable to other quantum-inspired and fully quantum devices that are undergoing development.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-71de07e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"71de07e\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2aed4f8\" data-id=\"2aed4f8\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a4220df elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"a4220df\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"QAA-2\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a3695a5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"a3695a5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-009ac20 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"009ac20\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<hr style=\"background: #F87431; border: 0; height: 3px;\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-5059f3e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5059f3e\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-3b5facd\" data-id=\"3b5facd\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c951ff4 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"c951ff4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Mon, Oct 18 @ 13:00-14:30 \u2014 QAA-2: Quantum Algorithms &amp; Applications 2\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMon, Oct 18 @ 13:00-14:30 \u2014 QAA-2: Quantum Algorithms &amp; Applications 2\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Decision Diagrams for Quantum Measurements with Shallow Circuits<\/span><br> Stefan Hillmich (Johannes Kepler Univ. Linz), Charles Hadfield (IBM Quantum), Rudy Raymond (IBM Quantum), Antonia Mezzacapo (IBM Quantum), Robert Wille (Johannes Kepler Univ. Linz)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e4c3897 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e4c3897\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">13:00-13:30 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-30ea2b7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"30ea2b7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">We consider the problem of estimating quantum observables on a collection of qubits, given as a linear combination of Pauli operators, with shallow quantum circuits consisting of single-qubit rotations. We introduce estimators based on randomised measurements, which use decision diagrams to sample from probability distributions on measurement bases. This approach generalises previously known uniform and locally-biased randomised estimators. The decision diagrams are constructed given target quantum operators and can be optimised considering different strategies. We show numerically that the estimators introduced here can produce more precise estimates on some quantum chemistry Hamiltonians, compared to previously known randomised protocols and Pauli grouping methods.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3584edc elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"3584edc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Multi-car Paint Shop Optimization with Quantum Annealing<\/span><br>Sheir Yarkoni, Alex Alekseyenko, Michael Streif, David Von Dollen, Florian Neukart (Volkswagen), Thomas B\u00e4ck (Leiden Univ.)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5a297eb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5a297eb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">13:30-14:00 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d8dabb6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d8dabb6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">We present a generalization of the binary paint shop problem (BPSP) to tackle an automotive industry application, the multi-car paint shop (MCPS) problem. The objective of the optimization is to minimize the number of color switches between cars in a paint shop queue during manufacturing, a known NP-hard problem. We distinguish between different sub-classes of paint shop problems, and show how to formulate the basic MCPS problem as an Ising model. The problem instances used in this study are generated using real-world data from a factory in Wolfsburg, Germany. We compare the performance of the D-Wave 2000Q and Advantage quantum processors to other classical solvers and a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm offered by D-Wave Systems. We observe that the quantum processors are well-suited for smaller problems, and the hybrid algorithm for intermediate sizes. However, we find that the performance of these algorithms quickly approaches that of a simple greedy algorithm in the large size limit.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-38d5d17 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"38d5d17\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">The Effect of Noise on the Performance of Variational Algorithms for Quantum Chemistry<\/span><br> Waheeda Saib (IBM Quantum), Petros Wallden (Univ. of Edinburgh), Ismail Akhalwaya (IBM Research)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-81c6aec elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"81c6aec\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">14:00-14:30 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8061507 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8061507\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Variational quantum algorithms are suitable for use on Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices. One of the most important use-cases is the quantum simulation of materials, using the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE). To optimize VQE performance, a suitable parameterized quantum circuit (ansatz) must be selected. We investigate a class of ansatz that incorporates knowledge of the quantum hardware, namely the hardware efficient ansatz. Since the performance of the hardware efficient ansatz is affected differently by noise, our goal is to see how noise changes which ansatz is the best for a chemistry problem. First, we study the effect of noise on the different hardware efficient ansatz by benchmarking and ranking the performance of each ansatz family on a chemistry application using VQE and by a recently established metric called \u201cexpressibility\u201d. The results demonstrate the ranking of optimal circuits does not remain constant in the presence of noise. Second, we evaluate the validity of the expressibility measure, by performing a correlation study between expressibility and the performance of the circuits on a chemistry application using VQE. Our simulations reveal a weak correlation and therefore demonstrate that expressibility is not an adequate measure to quantify the effectiveness of parameterized quantum circuits for quantum chemistry. Third, we evaluate the effect of different quantum device noise models on the ordering of which ansatz family is best. Interestingly, we see that to decide which ansatz is optimal for use, one needs to consider the specific hardware used even within the same family of quantum hardware.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a817cf3 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a817cf3\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-32a3a54\" data-id=\"32a3a54\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f69d60d elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"f69d60d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"QAA-3\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e941085 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"e941085\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e748fbf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e748fbf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<hr style=\"background: #F87431; border: 0; height: 3px;\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-874efd1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"874efd1\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-6dac0c1\" data-id=\"6dac0c1\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cbe12e4 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"cbe12e4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Mon, Oct 18 @ 15:15-16:45 \u2014 QAA-3: Quantum Algorithms &amp; Applications 3\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMon, Oct 18 @ 15:15-16:45 \u2014 QAA-3: Quantum Algorithms &amp; Applications 3\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\", sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none;white-space: pre-wrap;font-size: 20px\">A Simple Method for Sampling Random Clifford Operators<\/span><br style=\", sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none;white-space: pre-wrap\">Ewout van den Berg (IBM Quantum)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3b7a973 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3b7a973\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">15:15-15:45 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5f06515 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5f06515\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">We describe a simple algorithm for sampling n-qubit Clifford operators uniformly at random. The algorithm outputs the Clifford operators in the form of quantum circuits with at most 5n+2n^2 elementary gates and a maximum depth of O(n log(n)) on fully connected topologies. The circuit can be output in a streaming fashion as the algorithm proceeds, and different parts of the circuit can be generated in parallel. The algorithm has an O(n^2) time complexity, which matches the current state of the art. The main advantage of the proposed algorithm, however, lies in its simplicity and elementary derivation.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c39bdb4 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"c39bdb4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">PT-Enhanced Bayesian Parameter Estimation<\/span><br>Yaroslav Balytskyi, Manohar Raavi, Sang-Yoon Chang (Univ. Colorado, Colorado Springs)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-72885bd elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"72885bd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">15:45-16:15 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8217a26 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8217a26\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">The frequentist (local) quantum parameter estimation based on the Cramer-Rao bound is an asymptotic theory and therefore requires an infinite number of samples for the measurements. On the other hand, by introducing the prior probability distribution, Bayesian parameter estimation approach relaxes this requirement and can be successfully applied under realistic assumption of possessing a limited prior information about the parameter value under investigation. Meanwhile, recent advances in PT-symmetric quantum mechanics, both theoretically and experimentally, provide an opportunity to significantly enhance the parameter estimation precision by manipulating the Hilbert space of the system. Taking advantage of these, we develop the Bayesian parameter estimation approach for the two-level system possessing PT symmetry. We consider both options available in PT-symmetric quantum mechanics, namely the CPT and Hermitian measurements, for encoding the probe state and manipulation of the quantum Fisher information of the system and take into account possible decoherence effects inherent for the practical implementations. Our approach should be particularly relevant for applications where the accuracy of quantum parameter estimation is crucial, such as quantum randomness sources and the quantum key distribution. Finally, to bridge the gap with the practical implementations, we consider the relation of our scheme with the current implementation of PT symmetry on the IBM quantum processor.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-79a9e51 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"79a9e51\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">QuGAN: A Quantum State Fidelity based Generative Adversarial Network<\/span><br>Samuel A. Stein (Pacific NW Natl. Lab), Betis Baheri (Kent State Univ.), Daniel Chen (Case Western Reserve Univ.), Ying Mao (Fordham Univ.), Qiang Guan (Kent State Univ.), Ang Li, Bo Feng (Pacific NW Natl. Lab), Shuai Xu (Case Western Reserve Univ.)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-01a675f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"01a675f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">16:15-16:45 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a8def1a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a8def1a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Tremendous progress has been witnessed in artificial intelligence, where neural network backed deep learning systems have been used, with applications in almost every domain. As a representative deep learning framework, Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) has been widely used for generating artificial images, text-to-image or image augmentation across areas of science, arts and video games. However, GANs are computationally expensive, sometimes computationally prohibitive. Furthermore, training GANs may suffer from convergence failure and modal collapse. Aiming at the acceleration of use cases for practical quantum computers, we propose QuGAN, a quantum GAN architecture that provides stable convergence, quantum-states based gradients and significantly reduced parameter sets. The QuGANarchitecture runs both the discriminator and the generator purely on quantum state fidelity and utilizes the swap test on qubits to calculate the values of quantum-based loss functions. Built on quantum layers, QuGAN achieves similar performance with a 94.98% reduction on the parameter set when compared to classical GANs. With the same number of parameters, addition-ally, QuGAN outperforms state-of-the-art quantum based GANsin the literature providing a 48.33% improvement in system performance compared to others attaining less than 0.5% in terms of similarity between generated distributions and original data sets.\n\n\n<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3b14283 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3b14283\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e65524e\" data-id=\"e65524e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6db61b6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"6db61b6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"QCS-1\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d17316b elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"d17316b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-aaf9442 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"aaf9442\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<hr style=\"background: #F87431; border: 0; height: 3px;\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-e402e13 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e402e13\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-700b527\" data-id=\"700b527\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6ecc9bf elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"6ecc9bf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Tue, Oct 19 @ 10:45-12:15 \u2014 QCS-1: Quantum Computing &amp; Systems 1\u200b\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTue, Oct 19 @ 10:45-12:15 \u2014 QCS-1: Quantum Computing &amp; Systems 1\u200b\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Sampling Strategy Optimization for Randomized Benchmarking<\/span><br>Toshinari Itoko, Rudy Raymond (IBM Quantum)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9c031b0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9c031b0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">10:45-11:15 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-281f89b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"281f89b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Randomized benchmarking (RB) is a widely used method for estimating the average fidelity of gates implemented on a quantum computing device. The stochastic error of the average gate fidelity estimated by RB depends on the sampling strategy (i.e., how to sample sequences to be run in the protocol). The sampling strategy is determined by a set of configurable parameters (an RB configuration) that includes Clifford lengths (a list of the number of independent Clifford gates in a sequence) and the number of sequences for each Clifford length. The RB configuration is often chosen heuristically and there has been little research on its best configuration. Therefore, we propose a method for fully optimizing an RB configuration so that the confidence interval of the estimated fidelity is minimized while not increasing the total execution time of sequences. By experiments on real devices, we demonstrate the efficacy of the optimization method against heuristic selection in reducing the variance of the estimated fidelity.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0449796 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"0449796\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Hybrid Schr\u00f6dinger-Feynman Simulation of Quantum Circuits With Decision Diagrams<\/span>Lukas Burgholzer, Hartwig Bauer, Robert Wille (Johannes Kepler Univ. Linz)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c06277d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c06277d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">11:15-11:45 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2378e5c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2378e5c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Classical simulations of quantum computations are vital for the future development of this emerging technology. To this end, decision diagrams have been proposed as a complementary technique which frequently allows to tackle the inherent exponential complexity of these simulations. In the worst case, however, they still cannot escape this complexity. Additionally, while other techniques make use of all the available processing power, decision diagram-based simulation to date cannot exploit the many processing units of today&#8217;s systems. In this work, we show that both problems can be tackled together by employing a hybrid Schr\u00f6dinger-Feynman scheme for the simulation. More precisely, we show that realizing such a scheme with decision diagrams is indeed possible, we discuss the resulting problems in its realization, and propose solutions how they can be handled. Experimental evaluations confirm that this significantly advances the state of the art in decision diagram-based simulation&#8212;allowing to simulate certain hard circuits within minutes that could not be simulated in a whole day thus far.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-201c438 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"201c438\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Sampling on NISQ Devices: \"Who's the Fairest One of All?\"<\/span><br>Elijah Pelofski, John Golden, Andreas B\u00e4rtschi, Daniel O'Malley, Stephan Eidenbenz (Los Alamos Natl. Lab)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3efffa7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3efffa7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">11:45-12:15 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5d45948 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5d45948\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Modern NISQ devices are subject to a variety of biases and sources of noise that degrade the solution quality of computations carried out on these devices. A natural question that arises in the NISQ era, is how fairly do these devices sample ground state solutions. To this end, we run five fair sampling problems (each with at least three ground state solutions) that are based both on quantum annealing and on the Grover Mixer-QAOA algorithm for gate-based NISQ hardware. In particular, we use seven IBMQ devices, the Aspen-9 Rigetti device, the IonQ device, and three D-Wave quantum annealers. For each of the fair sampling problems, we measure the ground state probability, the relative fairness of the frequency of each ground state solution with respect to the other ground state solutions, and the aggregate error as given by each hardware provider. Overall, our results show that NISQ devices do not achieve fair sampling yet. We also observe differences in the software stack with a particular focus on compilation techniques that illustrate what work will still need to be done to achieve a seamless integration of frontend (i.e. quantum circuit description) and backend compilation.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-77b9603 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"77b9603\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7f50332\" data-id=\"7f50332\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-360ba67 elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"360ba67\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"QCS-2\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1752c2b elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"1752c2b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0e77345 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0e77345\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<hr style=\"background: #F87431; border: 0; height: 3px;\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-be04334 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"be04334\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-447811e\" data-id=\"447811e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e573b83 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"e573b83\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Tue, Oct 19 @ 13:00-14:30 \u2014 QCS-2: Quantum Computing &amp; Systems 2\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTue, Oct 19 @ 13:00-14:30 \u2014 QCS-2: Quantum Computing &amp; Systems 2\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">A Simple Heuristic for Expressing a Truth Table as a Quadratic Pseudo-Boolean Function<\/span><br>Scott Pakin (Los Alamos Natl. Lab)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6e31bd9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6e31bd9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">13:00-13:30 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a6f1525 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a6f1525\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Quadratic pseudo-Boolean functions (i.e., quadratic functions with real-valued coefficients and two-valued variables) are the native input to quantum annealers and also a common problem format to optimize with the QAOA algorithm on a circuit-model quantum computer. In both cases, large, complex optimization problems can be expressed in terms of combinations of simpler problems. A key challenge in problem set-up lies in finding the coefficients for the constituent sub-problems. These need to be chosen such that the function is minimized on valid inputs and is higher elsewhere. One difficulty is that it is not possible in general to solve for a sub-problem&#8217;s coefficients without introducing ancillary variables, the number of which and their corresponding per-row values being unknown a priori. These unknowns lead to solving for a sub-problem&#8217;s coefficients being an NP-complete problem. In this paper we present a simple heuristic that considers a prioritized subset of the exponential number of possibilities for each per-row ancillary variable. Using this heuristic, coefficients can be found substantially faster than would be possible using a brute-force search and with less software complexity than is required by prior approaches.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ecdad44 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"ecdad44\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Resource Optimal Executable Quantum Circuit Generation Using Approximate Computing<\/span><br>Smaran Adarsh, Matthias M\u00f6ller (Delft Univ. of Tech.)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e47b7b5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e47b7b5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">13:30-14:00 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7aec9ce elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7aec9ce\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Quantum Computing is an emerging technology that combines the principles of computer science and quantum mechanics to solve computationally challenging problems significantly faster than classical computers. In this paper, we present a proof-of-principle procedure for generating hardware-executable quantum circuits for Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices that follows the paradigm of approximate computing. Our approach starts from the reference circuit and transforms it into an executable circuit with tuneable parameters by replacing the high-level quantum operations by approximate decompositions into hardware-native gates. An inner optimization loop over the gates&#8217; rotation angles ensures that the so-created circuit behaves in the same way as the reference one in terms of its expectation-value landscape. This technique is complemented by compiler-based optimizations to further reduce or aggregate gate groups of the optimized circuit. This three-step procedure is embedded into an outer genetic algorithm framework that inspects many different circuit designs with placements of single- and multi-qubit gates according to the hardware&#8217;s lattice structure, and returns a set of approximate quantum circuits that can be executed on NISQ devices directly. We have validated our approach for superconducting quantum systems from IBM and Rigetti for various benchmark algorithms. In nearly all cases, our approach outperforms the vendors&#8217; quantum-compiler frameworks and produces significantly smaller circuits with up to 50% reduction in the number of gates.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-708dafd elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"708dafd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">QFAST: Conflating Search and Numerical Optimization for Scalable Quantum Circuit Synthesis<\/span><br>Ed Younis (Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab), Koushik Sen (UC-Berkeley), Katherine Yelick (UC-Berkeley), Costin Iancu (LBNL)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2b3b364 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2b3b364\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">14:00-14:30 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-496a462 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"496a462\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">We present a topology aware quantum synthesis algorithm designed to produce short circuits and to scale well in practice. The main contribution is a novel representation of circuits able to encode placement and topology using generic \u201cgates\u201d, which allows the QFAST algorithm to replace expensive searches over circuit structures with few steps of numerical optimization. When compared against optimal depth, search based state-of-the-art techniques, QFAST produces comparable results: 1.19\u00d7 longer circuits up to four qubits, with an increase in compilation speed of 3.6\u00d7. In addition, QFAST scales up to seven qubits. When compared with the state-of-the-art \u201crule\u201d based decomposition techniques in Qiskit, QFAST produces circuits shorter by up to two orders of magnitude (331\u00d7), albeit 5.6\u00d7 slower. We also demonstrate the composability with other techniques and the tunability of our formulation in terms of circuit depth and running time.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7342b7e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7342b7e\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0d76176\" data-id=\"0d76176\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ac978da elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"ac978da\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"QCS-3\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4be8abd elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"4be8abd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ccea445 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ccea445\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<hr style=\"background: #F87431; border: 0; height: 3px;\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-d050d8a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d050d8a\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-4e20c8a\" data-id=\"4e20c8a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d7cce09 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"d7cce09\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Tue, Oct 19 @ 15:15-16:45 \u2014 QCS-3: Quantum Computing &amp; Systems 3\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTue, Oct 19 @ 15:15-16:45 \u2014 QCS-3: Quantum Computing &amp; Systems 3\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">A Quantum Computing Programming Language for Transparent Experiment Descriptions<\/span><br>Virginia Frey, Rich Rademacher, Elijah Durso-Sabina, Matthew Day, Noah Greenberg, Nikolay Videnov, Rajibul Islam, Crystal Senko (Univ. of Waterloo)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-98d8600 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"98d8600\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">15:15-15:45 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dd435f2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"dd435f2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">We present a new quantum programming language that enables true full-stack programming of quantum hardware. Our language allows seamless integration of abstraction layers such as the digital circuit layer and the analog control pulse waveform layer. Additionally, our language supports user-issued low-level hardware instructions like FPGA actions. Mid-circuit measurements and branching decision logic support real-time, adaptive programs. This flexibility allows users to write code for everything from quantum error correction all the way to analog quantum simulation. The combination of a user-facing calibration database and a powerful symbolic algebra framework provides users with an unprecedented level of expressiveness and transparency. We display the salient characteristics of the language structure and describe how the accompanying compiler can translate programs written in any abstraction layer into precisely timed hardware commands. We intend for this language to bridge the gap between circuit-level programming and physical operations on real hardware while maintaining full transparency in each level of the stack. This eliminates the need for &#8220;behind-the-scenes&#8221; compilation and provides users with insights into the day-to-day calibration routines.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-adfafdd elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"adfafdd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">A MLIR Dialect for Quantum Assembly Languages<\/span><br>Alexander McCaskey, Thien Nguyen (Oak Ridge Natl. Lab)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9d233dd elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9d233dd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">15:45-16:15 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6d17e8b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6d17e8b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">We demonstrate the utility of the Multi-Level Intermediate Representation (MLIR) for quantum computing. Specifically, we extend MLIR with a new quantum dialect that enables the expression and compilation of common quantum assembly languages. The true utility of this dialect is in its ability to be lowered to the LLVM intermediate representation (IR) in a manner that is adherent to the quantum intermediate representation (QIR) specification recently proposed by Microsoft. We leverage a qcor-enabled implementation of the QIR quantum runtime API to enable a retargetable (quantum hardware agnostic) compiler workflow mapping quantum languages to hybrid quantum-classical binary executables and object code. We evaluate and demonstrate this novel compiler workflow with quantum programs written in OpenQASM 2.0. We provide concrete examples detailing the generation of MLIR from OpenQASM source files, the lowering process from MLIR to LLVM IR, and ultimately the generation of executable binaries targeting available quantum processors.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2d8e9fb elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"2d8e9fb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Quantum Annealing Stencils with Applications to Fuel Loading of a Nuclear Reactor<\/span><br>Joseph Fustero, Scott Palmtag, Frank Mueller (NC State Univ.)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ec3e175 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ec3e175\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">16:15-16:45 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fef8d87 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fef8d87\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">A method for mapping quadratic unconstrained binary optimizations expressed as nearest neighbor stencils onto contemporary quantum annealing machines is developed. The method is shown to provide higher utilization of annealing hardware resources than prior work. Applying the technique to the problem of determining an effective fuel loading pattern for nuclear reactors shows that densely mapped quantum stencils result in higher fidelity solutions of optimization problems then the sparser default solutions. These results are likely to generalize to quadratic unconstrained binary optimizations that can be expressed as dense quantum stencils, thereby improving optimization results obtained from noisy quantum devices.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2d240fb elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2d240fb\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0f7aebf\" data-id=\"0f7aebf\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c5544fc elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"c5544fc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"QWS-1\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4ad6650 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"4ad6650\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-83feb81 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"83feb81\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<hr style=\"background: #F87431; border: 0; height: 3px;\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-a415b4d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a415b4d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-1dc5f67\" data-id=\"1dc5f67\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dbc914c elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"dbc914c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Tue, Oct 19 @ 10:45-12:15 \u2014 QWS-1: Quantum Workforce &amp; Society 1\u200b\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTue, Oct 19 @ 10:45-12:15 \u2014 QWS-1: Quantum Workforce &amp; Society 1\u200b\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">GraphStateVis: Interactive Visual Analysis of Qubit Graph States and their Stabilizer Groups<\/span><br>Matthias Miller (Univ. Konstanz), Daniel Miller (Heinrich-Heine-Univ. D\u00fcsseldorf)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a616e0c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a616e0c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">10:45-11:15 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-beef4d8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"beef4d8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Fathoming out quantum state space is a challenging endeavor due to its exponentially growing dimensionality. At the expense of being bound in its expressiveness, the discrete and finite subspace of graph states is easier to investigate via a pictorial framework accompanied with a theoretical toolkit from the stabilizer formalism. Analyzing hand-drawn graphs is a tedious and time-consuming task and imposes limitations to the problem sizes that can be addressed. Similarly, algorithmic studies using adjacency matrices alone lack the benefit of a visual representation of the states. We argue that applying visual analytics to investigate graph states can be advantageous. To this end, we introduce GraphStateVis, a web-based application for the visual analysis of qubit graph states and their stabilizer groups. Our tool facilitates the interactive construction of a graph through multiple components supported by linking and brushing. The user can explore graph-state-specific properties, including the Pauli-weight distribution of its stabilizer operators and noise thresholds for entanglement criteria. We propose a use case in the context of near-term quantum algorithms to illustrate the capabilities of our prototype. We provide access to GraphStateVis as an open-source project and invite the broader quantum computing and engineering communities to take advantage of this tool and further boost its development.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-efa52be elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"efa52be\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Teaching Quantum Computing with an Interactive Textbook<\/span><br>James Wootton, Francis Harkins, Nick Bronn, Almudena Carrera Vazquez, Anna Phan, Abraham Asfaw (IBM Quantum)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-89afdbb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"89afdbb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">11:15-11:45 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b009b9a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b009b9a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Quantum computing is a technology that promises to offer significant advantages during the coming decades. Though the technology is still in a prototype stage, the last few years have seen many of these prototype devices become accessible to the public. This has been accompanied by the open-source development of the software required to use and test quantum hardware in increasingly sophisticated ways. Such tools provide new education opportunities, not just for quantum computing specifically, but also more broadly for quantum information science and even quantum physics as a whole. In this paper we present a case study of one education resource which aims to take advantage of the opportunities: the open-source online textbook `Learn Quantum Computation using Qiskit&#8217;. An overview of the topics covered is given, as well as an explanation of the approach taken for each.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-04eb1c0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"04eb1c0\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e4d12c3\" data-id=\"e4d12c3\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-71ed6b2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"71ed6b2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"QWS-2\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f949b0d elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"f949b0d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-98f1da2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"98f1da2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<hr style=\"background: #F87431; border: 0; height: 3px;\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-f05ed92 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"f05ed92\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-18a030e\" data-id=\"18a030e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c6dcd30 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"c6dcd30\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Tue, Oct 19 @ 13:00-14:30 \u2014 QWS-2: Quantum Workforce &amp; Society 2\u200b\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTue, Oct 19 @ 13:00-14:30 \u2014 QWS-2: Quantum Workforce &amp; Society 2\u200b\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">IBM-HBCU Quantum Center: A Model for Industry Academic Partnerships for Advancing a Diverse, Quantum Aware Workforces<\/span><br>Kayla Lee (IBM), Thomas Searles (Howard Univ.)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-92a9b4b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"92a9b4b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">13:00-13:30 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-378706c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"378706c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">The IBM-HBCU Quantum Center is a first-of-a-kind collaboration between IBM and a consortium of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) that seeks to address the lack of representation and build a diverse and aware workforce in quantum information science and engineering (QISE). Key pillars of the Center are focused on 1) building community and fostering a sense of belonging, 2) strengthening relationships internally and with the broader quantum community, and 3) providing funding to support undergraduate, graduate, and faculty research. As a part of the program, students and faculty are invited to participate in grant development workshops, a QISE invited speaker series, community hack-a-thons, and other opportunities to build competencies in the growing field of QISE. Since its launch, the IBM-HBCU Quantum Center has engaged a community of over 400 students, faculty, and researchers and will continue to establish a research presence in QISE and increase opportunities for research and workforce development.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6d8b279 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"6d8b279\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Quantum Computing for Undergraduate Engineering Students: Report of an Experience<\/span><br>Rafael Sotelo, Laura Gatti (Univ. de Montevideo)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-72e5f65 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"72e5f65\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">13:30-14:00 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-91cc471 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"91cc471\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">This paper presents the experience of a Quantum Computer course addressed for the first time for undergraduate engineering students. Students\u2019 levels varied from year two to five of their careers, and had strong previous knowledge on Calculus, Linear Algebra and Programming, but not on Quantum Mechanics or on Modern Physics. The main objective of the course was that students acquire programming skills in Quantum Computing, so it had a practical approach. Instead of beginning by introducing the physical phenomenology under the field, the course started directly with presenting the logic of quantum computing from an abstract point of view. The language used was Q#. The curricula was based on the one available for the Microsoft Quantum Network.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-dc6880b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"dc6880b\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-bd7c8a3\" data-id=\"bd7c8a3\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e0b82b0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"e0b82b0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"QAA-4\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e585eb7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"e585eb7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-885d3f1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"885d3f1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<hr style=\"background: #F87431; border: 0; height: 3px;\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-e44d751 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e44d751\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-057936d\" data-id=\"057936d\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d800de7 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"d800de7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Wed, Oct 20 @ 10:45-12:15 \u2014 QAA-4: Quantum Algorithms &amp; Applications 4\u200b\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWed, Oct 20 @ 10:45-12:15 \u2014 QAA-4: Quantum Algorithms &amp; Applications 4\u200b\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Modified Layerwise Learning for Data Re-uploading Classifier in High-Energy Physics Event Classification<\/span><br>Eraraya Ricardo Muten (Inst. Teknologi Bandung), Togan Tlimakhov Yusuf (Ankara Univ.), Andrei Voicu Tomut (Babe\u015f-Bolyai Univ.)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-810ff0b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"810ff0b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">10:45-11:15 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-11fc3c9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"11fc3c9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">This paper aims to demonstrate the use of modified layerwise learning on a data-reuploading classifier, where the parameterized quantum circuit will be used as a quantum classifier to classify the SUSY dataset. We managed to produce a better result using this approach compared to the previous related research with fewer qubits. We obtained an AUC of 0.849 on a testing dataset with 5000 training and testing samples, trained and tested using a state-vector simulator. We also tested to run the circuit on Rigetti&#8217;s Aspen-9 quantum processing unit provided by AWS using the already optimized parameter to predict 2000 samples of the test dataset and obtained an AUC of 0.830.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d25a1e8 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"d25a1e8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Quantum Image Representation on Clusters<\/span><br>Arijit Mandal (Visvesvaraya Natl. Instl of Technology), Shreya Banerjee , Prasanta K. Panigrahi (Indian Inst. of Science Ed. and Res.)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a49618c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a49618c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">11:15-11:45 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0f7dbef elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0f7dbef\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">We propose a novel scheme for quantum image representation using the cluster states (QIRC). This scheme is capable to represent images of any size and color. We emphasize the use of cluster states in this scheme due to its high entanglement and various experimental realization across several hardware. We also propose a secure image encryption scheme embedded with QIRC. Further, we discuss the possibility of QIRC to be implemented successfully with a real quantum device in the NISQ era, by executing example representations of a 2&#215;2 and a 3x2binary image on a real quantum processor provided by IBM Quantum.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a0ecae1 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"a0ecae1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Optimizing Parameterized Quantum Circuits with Free-Axis Selection<\/span><br>Hiroshi Watanabe (Keio Univ.), Rudy Raymond (IBM Quantum), Yu-ya Ohnishi (JSR Corp.), Eriko Kaminishi (Keio Univ.), Michihiko Sugawara (Keio Univ.)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-67898d9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"67898d9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">11:45-12:15 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-03042d8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"03042d8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs), which are essential for variational quantum algorithms, have conventionally been optimized by parameterized rotational angles of single-qubit gates around a predetermined set of axes. We propose a new method to optimize a PQC by continuous parameterization of both the angles and the axes of its single-qubit rotations. The method is based on the observation that when rotational angles are fixed, optimal axes of rotations can be computed by solving a system of linear equations whose coefficients can be determined from the PQC with a small computational overhead. The method can be further simplified to select axes freely from continuous parameters with rotational angles fixed to pi. We show the simplified free-axis selection method has better expressibility against other structural optimization methods when measured with Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence. We also demonstrate PQCs with free-axis selection are more effective to search the ground states of Heisenberg models and molecular Hamiltonians. Because free-axis selection allows designing PQCs without specifying their single-qubit rotational axes, it may significantly improve the handiness of PQCs.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-19dc0a3 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"19dc0a3\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-224f07d\" data-id=\"224f07d\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4c3b84e elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"4c3b84e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"QAA-5\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a489879 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"a489879\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e3a3221 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e3a3221\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<hr style=\"background: #F87431; border: 0; height: 3px;\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-f3448f6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"f3448f6\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-6c2b24f\" data-id=\"6c2b24f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3ef5c74 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"3ef5c74\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Wed, Oct 20 @ 13:00-14:30 \u2014 QAA-5: Quantum Algorithms &amp; Applications 5\u200b\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWed, Oct 20 @ 13:00-14:30 \u2014 QAA-5: Quantum Algorithms &amp; Applications 5\u200b\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Simpler (Classical) and Faster (Quantum) Algorithms for Gibbs Partition Functions<\/span><br>Srinivasan Arunachalam, Vojtech Havlicek, Giacommo Nannicini, Kritan Temme, Pawel Wocjan (IBM Quantum)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5e0ae61 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5e0ae61\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">13:00-13:30 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-14430ee elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"14430ee\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">We give classical and quantum algorithms for approximating partition functions of classical Hamiltonians at a given temperature. Specifically, we modify the classical algorithm of Stefankovic, Vempala and Vigoda (J. ACM, 56(3), 2009) to improve its sample complexity; and we quantize this new algorithm, improving upon the previously best quantum algorithm for computing Gibbs partition functions due to Harrow and Wei (SODA 2020). The conventional approach to estimate partition functions requires approximating the mean of Gibbs distributions at nearby inverse temperatures that satisfy certain properties; this set of temperatures is called a cooling schedule. The length of the cooling schedule directly affects the complexity of the algorithm. Combining our improved version of the algorithm of Stefankovic, Vempala and Vigoda with the paired-product estimator of Huber (Ann. Appl. Probab., 25(2), 2015), our new quantum algorithm uses a shorter cooling schedule than previously known. This length matches the optimal length conjectured by Stefankovic, Vempala and Vigoda. The quantum algorithm also achieves a quadratic advantage in the number of required quantum samples compared to the number of random samples drawn by the best classical algorithm, and its computational complexity has quadratically better dependence on the spectral gap of the Markov chains used to produce the quantum samples.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e49d6b5 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"e49d6b5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Photonic Quantum Policy Learning in OpenAI Gym<\/span> <br>D\u00e1niel Nagy (Wigner Res. Ctr for Physics), Zsolt Tabi (Ericsson), P\u00e9ter H\u00e1ga, Zs\u00f3fia Kallus (Ericsson Res.) Zolt\u00e1n Zimbor\u00e1s (Wigner Res. Ctr for Physics)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-40d3716 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"40d3716\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">13:30-14:00 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e4416e8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e4416e8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">In recent years, near-term noisy intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) computing devices have become available. One of the most promising application areas to leverage such NISQ quantum computer prototypes is quantum machine learning. While quantum neural networks are widely studied for supervised learning, quantum reinforcement learning is still just an emerging field of this area. To solve a classical continuous control problem, we used continuous-variable quantum machine learning. We introduce proximal policy optimization for photonic variational quantum agent and also study the effect of the data re-uploading. We present performance assessment via empirical study using Strawberry Fields photonic simulator Fock backend and a hybrid training framework connected to an OpenAI Gym environment and TensorFlow. For the restricted CartPole problem, the two variations of the photonic policy learning achieve comparable performance levels and a faster convergence than the baseline classical neural network of same number of trainable parameters.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-124660e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"124660e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">14:00-14:30 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-86e5ce4 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"86e5ce4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Towards a Quantum Modeling Approach to Reactive Agents<\/span><br>Abder Koukam, Abdeljalil Abbas-Turki, Vincent Hilaire, Yassine Ruichek (Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comt\u00e9, UTBM)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-aab7a67 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"aab7a67\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Quantum computing offers a new approach to the problem modeling and solving. This paper deals with the quantum modeling of reactive agents. It also proposes a quantum algorithm to implement the subsumption architecture, widely used by reactive agents, particularly in robotics. This work shows the contribution of the formalism proposed by quantum mechanics to the modeling and the proof of certain properties of the agent behavior. After, the definition of the reactive agent state modeling, the paper suggests a behavior modeling approach based on two steps for subsumption architecture. The first one models the preset behavior that links each action to the perception states. The second one determines among several actuated actions, the one that the robot must achieve. The subsumption architecture raises the challenge of modeling hierarchical priority of actions. To this end, a multipartite entanglement is used in the second step. More precisely, the paper proposes and generalizes a W-state circuit in order to be used for modeling hierarchical priority actions and controlling the robot accordingly. The result of both steps provides a formal model that links the robot&#8217;s perception (input) to the actions (output), with respect to the subsumption architecture. The proposed model of agent is simulated using IBM quantum computer. The simulation shows that the model can either be served as a control unit of the robot (CU) to obtain the suitable action or to simulate the robot behavior.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-03bc4d7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"03bc4d7\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1ca567c\" data-id=\"1ca567c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-96e4a91 elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"96e4a91\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"QAA-6\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1f8d3d2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"1f8d3d2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1b2c6f2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1b2c6f2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<hr style=\"background: #F87431; border: 0; height: 3px;\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-5f3182b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5f3182b\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-5ad9f03\" data-id=\"5ad9f03\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9a7db93 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"9a7db93\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Wed, Oct 20 @ 15:15-16:45 \u2014 QAA-6: Quantum Algorithms &amp; Applications 6\u200b\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWed, Oct 20 @ 15:15-16:45 \u2014 QAA-6: Quantum Algorithms &amp; Applications 6\u200b\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Threshold-Based Quantum Optimization<\/span><br>John Golden, Andreas B\u00e4rtschi, Dan O'Malley, Stephan Eidenbenz (Los Alamos Natl. Lab)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5d47353 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5d47353\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">15:15-15:45 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-07e67f8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"07e67f8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">We propose and study Th-QAOA (pronounced Threshold QAOA), a variation of the Quantum Alternating Operator Ansatz (QAOA) that replaces the standard phase separator operator, which encodes the objective function, with a threshold function that returns a value 1 for solutions with an objective value above the threshold and a 0 otherwise. We vary the threshold value to arrive at a quantum optimization algorithm. We focus on a combination with the Grover Mixer operator; the resulting GM-Th-QAOA can be viewed as a generalization of Grover&#8217;s quantum search algorithm and its minimum\/maximum finding cousin to approximate optimization. Our main findings include: (i) we show semi-formally that the optimum parameter values of GM-Th-QAOA (angles and threshold value) can be found with O(log p * log M) iterations of the classical outer loop, where p is the number of QAOA rounds and M is an upper bound on the solution value (often the number of vertices or edges in an input graph), thus eliminating the notorious outer-loop parameter finding issue of other QAOA algorithms; (ii) GM-Th-QAOA can be simulated classically with little effort up to 90 qubits through a set of tricks that cut down memory requirements; (iii) somewhat surprisingly, GM-Th-QAOA outperforms its non-thresholded counterparts in terms of approximation ratios achieved. This third result holds across a range of optimization problems (MaxCut, Max k-VertexCover, Max k-DensestSubgraph, MaxBisection) and various experimental design parameters, such as different input edge densities and constraint sizes.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-10c05e9 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"10c05e9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">A Quantum-Inspired Classical Solver for k-Satisfiability Problems<\/span><br>S. Andrew Lanham, Brian La Cour (ARL, UT Austin)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4cc768b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4cc768b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">15:45-16:15 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1c36c28 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1c36c28\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">We detail a classical algorithmic approach to the k-satisfiability (k-SAT) problem that is inspired by the quantum amplitude amplification algorithm. This work falls under the emerging field of quantum-inspired classical algorithms. To propose our modification, we adopt an existing problem model for k-SAT known as Universal SAT (UniSAT), which casts the Boolean satisfiability problem as a non-convex global optimization over a real-valued space. The quantum-inspired modification to UniSAT is to apply a conditioning operation to the objective function that has the effect of &#8220;amplifying\u201d the function value at points corresponding to optimal solutions. We describe the algorithm for achieving this amplification, termed &#8220;AmplifySAT,&#8221; which follows a familiar two-step process of applying an oracle-like operation followed by a reflection about the average. We then discuss opportunities for meaningfully leveraging this processing in a classical digital or analog computing setting, attempting to identify the strengths and limitations of AmplifySAT in the context of existing non-convex optimization strategies like simulated annealing and gradient descent.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1254d08 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"1254d08\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Numerical Simulations of Noisy Variational Quantum Eigensolver Ansatz Circuits<\/span><br>Meenambika Gowrishankar (Univ. of Tennessee\/ORNL), Daniel Claudino, Jerimiah Wright, Alex McCaskey, Thien Nguyen, Travis Humble (Oak Ridge Natl. Lab)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b7c68b7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b7c68b7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">16:15-16:45 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8267d04 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8267d04\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">This is a case study of the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) method using numerical simulations to test the influence of noise on the accuracy of the underlying circuit ansatz. We investigate a computational chemistry application of VQE to calculate the electronic ground state and its energy for Sodium Hydride (NaH), a prototypical two-electron problem. Using a one-parameter ansatz derived from unitary coupled cluster (UCC) theory, we simulate the effects of noise on the energy expectation value and variance with respect to the ansatz parameter. These numerical simulations provide insights into the accuracy of the prepared quantum state and the efficiency of the classical optimizer that iteratively refines the ansatz. We conduct a comparative study between analytical results derived for the UCC ansatz in the absence of noise and the noisy numerical simulation results obtained using an isotropic depolarizing noise model for each gate. We also compare the relative increase in noise on logically equivalent UCC ansatz circuits generated by randomized compiling. Notably, we observe that the intrinsic variance in the energy due to the simplicity of the ansatz itself compares with the noise induced by the bare circuit.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6acca2f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6acca2f\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-da29298\" data-id=\"da29298\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b852b01 elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"b852b01\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"QEDS-1\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e521ff0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"e521ff0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d29f4d1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d29f4d1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<hr style=\"background: #F87431; border: 0; height: 3px;\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-cda5c5f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"cda5c5f\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-1d386e0\" data-id=\"1d386e0\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-783e255 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"783e255\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Wed, Oct 20 @ 13:00-14:30 \u2014 QEDS-1: Quantum Engineering, Devices, and Sensing 1\u200b\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWed, Oct 20 @ 13:00-14:30 \u2014 QEDS-1: Quantum Engineering, Devices, and Sensing 1\u200b\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Practical Implications of SFQ-based Two-qubit Gates<\/span><br>Mohammad Reza Jokar, Richard Rines, Fred Chong (Univ. of Chicago)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0e8980d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0e8980d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">13:00-13:30 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-29a006b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"29a006b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Scalability of today&#8217;s superconducting quantum computers is limited due to the huge costs of generating\/routing microwave control pulses per qubit from room temperature. One active research area in both industry and academia is to push the classical controllers to the dilution refrigerator in order to increase the scalability of quantum computers. Superconducting Single Flux Quantum (SFQ) is a classical logic technology with low power consumption and ultra-high speed, and thus is a promising candidate for in-fridge classical controllers with maximized scalability. Prior work has demonstrated high-fidelity SFQ-based single-qubit gates. However, little research has been done on SFQ-based multi-qubit gates, which are necessary to realize SFQ-based universal quantum computing. In this paper, we present the first thorough analysis of SFQ-based two-qubit gates. Our observations show that SFQ-based two-qubit gates tend to have high leakage to qubit non-computational subspace, which presents severe design challenges. We show that despite these challenges, we can realize gates with high fidelity by carefully designing optimal control methods and qubit architectures. We develop optimal control methods that suppress leakage, and also investigate various qubit architectures that reduce the leakage. After carefully engineering our SFQ-friendly quantum system, we show that it can achieve similar gate fidelity and gate time to microwave-based quantum systems. The promising results of this paper show that (1) SFQ-based universal quantum computation is both feasible and effective; and (2) SFQ is a promising approach in designing classical controller for quantum machines because it can increase the scalability while preserving gate fidelity and performance.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-faff09b elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"faff09b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Efficient Quantum Gate Discovery with Optimal Control<\/span> <br>Paul Kairys (Univ. of Tennessee), Travis Humble (Oak Ridge Natl. Lab)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-856066a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"856066a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">13:30-14:00 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-77c57e1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"77c57e1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Optimal control theory provides a framework for numerical discovery of device controls that implement quantum logic gates, but common objective functions used for optimization often assign arbitrarily high costs to otherwise useful controls. We propose a framework for designing objective functions that permit novel gate designs such as echo pulses or locally-equivalent gates. We use numerical simulations to demonstrate the efficacy of the new objective functions by designing microwave-only pulses that act as entangling gates for superconducting transmon architectures. We observe that the proposed objective functions lead to higher fidelity controls in fewer optimization iterations than obtainable by traditional objective functions.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f3a75c0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f3a75c0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">14:00-14:30 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2ac55f5 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"2ac55f5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Adaptive Circuit Learning for Quantum Metrology<\/span><br>Ziqi Ma, Pranav Gokhale, Tian-Xing Zheng, Sisi Zhou, Xiaofei Yu, Liang Jiang, Peter Maurer, Fred Chong (Univ. of Chicago)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1e90ff8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1e90ff8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Quantum sensing is an important application of emerging quantum technologies. We explore whether a hybrid system of quantum sensors and quantum circuits can surpass the classical limit of sensing. In particular, we use optimization techniques to search for encoder and decoder circuits that scalably improve sensitivity under given application and noise characteristics. Our approach uses a variational algorithm that can learn a quantum sensing circuit based on platform-specific control capacity, noise, and signal distribution. The quantum circuit is composed of an encoder which prepares the optimal sensing state and a decoder which gives an output distribution containing information of the signal. We optimize the full circuit to maximize the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR). Furthermore, this learning algorithm can be run on real hardware scalably by using the \u201cparameter-shift\u201d rule which enables gradient evaluation on noisy quantum circuits, avoiding the exponential cost of quantum system simulation. We demonstrate up to 13.12x SNR improvement over existing fixed protocol (GHZ), and 3.19x Classical Fisher Information (CFI) improvement over the classical limit on 15 qubits using IBM quantum computer. More notably, our algorithm overcomes the decreasing performance of existing entanglement-based protocols with increased system sizes.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b0d7d37 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b0d7d37\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3c9e04d\" data-id=\"3c9e04d\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ee6c6ac elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"ee6c6ac\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"QEDS-2\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0c851bb elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"0c851bb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-65d1a45 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"65d1a45\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<hr style=\"background: #F87431; border: 0; height: 3px;\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-a58d82e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a58d82e\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-8acba49\" data-id=\"8acba49\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6f3a608 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"6f3a608\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Wed, Oct 20 @ 15:15-16:45 \u2014 QEDS-2: Quantum Engineering, Devices, and Sensing 2\u200b\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWed, Oct 20 @ 15:15-16:45 \u2014 QEDS-2: Quantum Engineering, Devices, and Sensing 2\u200b\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Quantum Engineering of Nitrogen Vacancy Diamond Magnetometers (Invited Presentation)<\/span><br>Danielle Braje (MIT Lincoln Laboratory<\/span>)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e462b40 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e462b40\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">15:15-15:45 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-57e991b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"57e991b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">For a well-defined laboratory proof-of-principle demonstration, quantum mechanics defines limits of sensor performance.  A pivotal aspect of quantum engineering is rethinking the system for the goal.  Sensitivity might be traded for power consumption; manufacturability and cost could supersede the need for miniaturization; or environmental tolerance could be the primary design driver.   This talk will discuss the quantum engineering of solid-state magnetometers.\n<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f013d68 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"f013d68\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Perspectives and Progress on Scaling Subsystems for Trapped-Ion Quantum Computing (Invited Presentation)<\/span> <br>Steve Sanders (Honeywell Quantum Solutions)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7af2fbb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7af2fbb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">15:45-16:15 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a9e9664 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a9e9664\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Progress in quantum computing depends strongly on the ability to scale critical components and subsystems for every given computer architecture. As systems scale from dozens to thousands of qubits, the subsystems must scale by 100x or more in capability. Yet they cannot grow commensurately in size\/power\/cost\/failure rate (SPCFR) if the technology is to be economical. This economy implies the need for new scalable subsystems which grow much faster in capability than in SPCFR. At the same time, to move out of the noisy \u201cNISQ\u201d era and into the stage of low gate error and quantum error correction, the subsystems require lower noise and better performance. Hence, subsystem development faces the challenges of becoming more capable and yet less costly, simultaneously.  In this talk we will discuss such subsystem scaling challenges for one particular architecture, namely that of the trapped-ion quantum charge coupled-device (TIQCCD). We will present a broad survey of major subsystems used in TIQCCD, their critical functional requirements and performance metrics, and some of the most important challenges in scaling these subsystems. Examples from control systems, lasers, and laser beam delivery to ions will be discussed.\n<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4285f03 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4285f03\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-cc92b19\" data-id=\"cc92b19\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7169dff elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"7169dff\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"QNC-1\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f251b89 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"f251b89\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f52030e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f52030e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<hr style=\"background: #F87431; border: 0; height: 3px;\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-3205ee6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3205ee6\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-65a5754\" data-id=\"65a5754\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4b514a3 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"4b514a3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Thu, Oct 21 @ 10:45-12:15 \u2014 QNC-1: Quantum Networking &amp; Communications 1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThu, Oct 21 @ 10:45-12:15 \u2014 QNC-1: Quantum Networking &amp; Communications 1\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Optically Active Nanophotonic <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Spin Systems in Diamond as Resource for Quantum Communication (Invited Presentation)<\/span><br>Tim Schr\u00f6der (Humbold-Univ. zu Berlin)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-426236d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"426236d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">10:45-11:15 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6420c0d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6420c0d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Optically active spin defects in diamond have proven to be a promising resource for the implementation of quantum communication and have recently enabled the first demonstration of a 3-node network. In this presentation I bridge ongoing and anticipated work in the control, analysis and engineering of single spin systems for applications in quantum communication. I introduce a recent proposal in which we demonstrate theoretically that the realization of quantum communication over 1000 km becomes achievable with relatively few solid-state spin qubits that are efficiently coupled to an optical nanostructure. These coupled devices and their coherent control, however, have complex requirements that go beyond current state-of-the-art. In our work, we focus on understanding the devices\u2019 nano- and microscopic noise environment, on device fabrication, and on system control schemes. To illustrate these efforts, I outline how to coherently control diamond spin qubits, how to enhance qubit-to-photon coupling with nanostructures, and how to mitigate noise in such nanostructures. In particular, I discuss how to achieve single \u2018central\u2019 spin qubits with long coherence times through decoupling from spin bath noise, and how several of such quantum memories can be controlled simultaneously in a sub-diffraction volume. For enhanced qubit-to-photon coupling I introduce photonic nanostructures and methods for their fabrication, and demonstrate how such qubit-nanostructure devices facilitate flux control of electromagnetic radiation. One important (yet undesired) \u2018side-effect\u2019 of nanostructures is spectral diffusion of the spin system\u2019s optical transition frequency induced by time-varying electrostatic field noise. I introduce ways to investigate and mitigate the impact of this noise, and show that certain spin defect centres are immune to electric field noise to first order. Finally, I look into the near future and lay out how we plan to generate multi-qubit entangled states\u2014an important step towards applying solid-state spin systems for the implementation of long-distance quantum communication and quantum networks.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2127e67 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"2127e67\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Distance-Independent Entanglement Generation in a Quantum Network using Space-Time Multiplexed Greenberger\u2013Horne\u2013Zeilinger (GHZ) Measurements<\/span><br>Ashlesha Patil, Joshua I. Jacobson, Emily Van Milligen (Univ. of Arizona), Don Towsley (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst), Saikat Guha (Univ. of Arizona)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d7b24aa elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d7b24aa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">11:15-11:45 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4d5dd30 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4d5dd30\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">In a quantum network that successfully creates links&#8211;shared Bell states between neighboring repeater nodes&#8212;with probability p, and performs Bell State Measurements at nodes with success probability q<1, the end-to-end entanglement generation rate drops exponentially with the distance between consumers, despite multi-path routing. If repeaters can perform multi-qubit projective measurements in the GHZ basis that succeed with probability q, the rate does not change with distance in a certain (p,q) region, but decays exponentially outside. This region where the distance-independent rate occurs is the super-critical region of a new percolation problem. We extend this GHZ protocol to incorporate a time-multiplexing blocklength k, the number of time slots over which a repeater can mix-and-match successful links to perform fusion on. As k increases, the super-critical region expands. For a given (p,q), the entanglement rate initially increases with k, and once inside the super-critical region for a high enough k, it decays as 1\/k GHZ states per time slot. When memory coherence time exponentially distributed with mean mu is incorporated, it is seen that increasing k does not indefinitely increase the super-critical region; it has a hard mu-dependent limit. Finally, we find that incorporating space-division multiplexing, i.e., running the above protocol independently in up to d disconnected network regions, where d is the network\u2019s node degree, one can go beyond the 1 GHZ state per time slot rate that the above randomized local-link-state protocol cannot surpass. As (p,q) increases, one can approach the ultimate min-cut entanglement-generation capacity of d GHZ states per slot.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-9e205c3 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"9e205c3\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5c234a6\" data-id=\"5c234a6\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-31a2c7e elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"31a2c7e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"QNC-2\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fe61f52 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"fe61f52\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a66a52d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a66a52d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<hr style=\"background: #F87431; border: 0; height: 3px;\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-528bfe1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"528bfe1\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-07c233e\" data-id=\"07c233e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4c47a43 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"4c47a43\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Thu, Oct 21 @ 13:00-14:30 \u2014 QNC-2: Quantum Networking &amp; Communications 2\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThu, Oct 21 @ 13:00-14:30 \u2014 QNC-2: Quantum Networking &amp; Communications 2\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">A Quantum-Walk Control Plane for Distributed Quantum Computing in Quantum Networks<\/span><br>Matheus Guedes de Andrade (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst), Saikat Guha (Univ. of Arizona), Don Towsley, Wenhan Dai (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a81b61c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a81b61c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">13:00-13:30 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7c6a373 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7c6a373\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Quantum networks are complex systems formed by the interaction among quantum processors through quantum channels. Analogous to classical computer networks, quantum networks allow for the distribution of quantum computation among quantum computers. In this work, we describe a quantum walk protocol to perform distributed quantum computing in a quantum network. The protocol uses a quantum walk as a quantum control signal to perform distributed quantum operations. We consider a generalization of the discrete-time coined quantum walk model that accounts for the interaction between a quantum walker system in the network graph with quantum registers inside the network nodes. The protocol logically captures distributed quantum computing, abstracting hardware implementation and the transmission of quantum information through channels. Control signal transmission is mapped to the propagation of the walker system across the network, while interactions between the control layer and the quantum registers are embedded into the application of coin operators. We demonstrate how to use the quantum walker system to perform a distributed CNOT operation, which shows the universality of the protocol for distributed quantum computing. Furthermore, we apply the protocol to the task of entanglement distribution in a quantum network.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-544a1d0 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"544a1d0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Distributing Graph States Across Quantum Networks<\/span> <br>Alex Fischer, Don Towsley (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c8ae51c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c8ae51c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">13:30-14:00 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fa08e6c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fa08e6c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Graph states are an important class of multipartite entangled quantum states. We propose a new approach for distributing graph states across a quantum network. We consider a quantum network consisting of nodes-quantum computers within which local operations are free-and EPR pairs shared between nodes that can continually be generated. We prove upper bounds for our approach on the number of EPR pairs consumed, number of timesteps taken, and amount of classical communication required, all of which are equal to or better than that of prior work. We also reduce the problem of minimizing the number of timesteps taken to distribute a graph state using our approach to a network flow problem having polynomial time complexity.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2714df1 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"2714df1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Towards Optical Quantum Networks with Rare Earth Ions (Invited Presentation)<\/span> <br>Andrei Faraon, Andrei Ruskuc, Chun Ju Wu, Jake Rochman, Tian Xie, Mi Lei, Rikuto Fukumori, Daniel Riedel (California Inst. of Technology)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-90b9214 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"90b9214\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">14:00-14:30 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c293a85 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c293a85\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Quantum optical networks will enable distribution of quantum entanglement at long distances, with applications including interconnects between future quantum computers and secure quantum communications. I will present our recent work on developing quantum networking components based on rare-earth ions such as single optically addressable quantum bits based on ytterbium 171 in yttrium orthovanadate, microwave to optical transducers based on erbium doped crystals coupled to microwave and optical resonators, and on-chip telecom optical quantum memories.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0bc63ed elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0bc63ed\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-76b3e5d\" data-id=\"76b3e5d\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2a9062a elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"2a9062a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"QNC-3\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3b519cc elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"3b519cc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2d4cd47 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2d4cd47\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<hr style=\"background: #F87431; border: 0; height: 3px;\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-65eaa2e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"65eaa2e\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-49bfb00\" data-id=\"49bfb00\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2565061 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"2565061\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Thu, Oct 21 @ 15:15-16:45 \u2014 QNC-3: Quantum Networking &amp; Communications 3\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThu, Oct 21 @ 15:15-16:45 \u2014 QNC-3: Quantum Networking &amp; Communications 3\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Password Authentication Schemes on a Quantum Computer<\/span><br>Sherry Wang, Carlisle Adams, Anne Broadbent (Univ. of Ottawa)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b26c9db elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b26c9db\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">15:15-15:45 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-23b85d6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"23b85d6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">In a post-quantum world, where attackers may have access to full-scale quantum computers, all classical password-based authentication schemes will be compromised. Quantum copy-protection prevents adversaries from making copies of existing quantum software; we suggest this as a possible approach for designing post-quantum-secure password authentication systems. In this paper, we show an implementation of quantum copy-protection for password verification on IBM quantum computers. We also share our quantum computation results and analyses, as well as lessons learned.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-db28de9 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"db28de9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Performance Analysis of the Quantum Safe Multivariate Polynomial Public Key Algorithm<\/span><br>Randy Kuang, Michel Barbeau (Quantropi)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-73b09f1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"73b09f1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">15:45-16:15 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c01e84d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c01e84d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">The Multivariate Polynomial Public Key (MPPK) algorithm, over a prime Galois field, takes a multiplier multivariate polynomial and two multiplicand univariate linear polynomials to create two product multivariate polynomials. The public key consists of all coefficients of the product multivariate polynomials, except the two constant terms. The private key is made of both constant terms. Encryption takes a list of random numbers, over the prime Galois field. The first number is the secret to exchange. The other random numbers generate noise automatically cancelled by decryption. The secret is easily extracted from the evaluation of a linear equation. The level of security provided by Multivariate Polynomial Public Key (MPPK) is adaptable. The algorithm can be used in several different ways. In this paper, we review the performance achieved by MPPK for several combinations of polynomial configurations and Galois field sizes. For every combination, we calculated the public key size, key generation time, encryption time and decryption time. We also compare the effectiveness of MPPK with the performance of all four NIST PQC finalists. For MPPK, the data has been collected from the execution of an implementation in Java. In comparison to the NIST PQC finalists, MPPK key generation, encryption and decryption performance is excellent.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-28ffeb3 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"28ffeb3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Pseudo Quantum Random Number Generator with Quantum Permutation Pad<\/span><br>Randy Kuang, Dafu Lou, Alex He, Chris McKenzie, Michael Redding (Quantropi)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3cc079a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3cc079a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">16:15-16:45 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9bc7ff1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9bc7ff1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Cryptographic random number generation is critical for any quantum safe encryption. Based on the natural uncertainty of some quantum processes, variety of quantum random number generators or QRNGs have been created with physical quantum processes. They generally generate random numbers with good unpredictable randomness. Of course, physical QRNGs are costic and require physical integrations with computing systems. This paper proposes a pseudo quantum random number generator with a quantum algorithm called quantum permutation pad or QPP, leveraging the high entropy of quantum permutation space. Unlike the Boolean algebra where the size of information space is 2^n for a n-bit system, a n-bit quantum permutation space consists of 2n! quantum permutation matrices, representing all quantum permutation gates over a n-bit computational basis. This permutation space holds an equivalent Shannon information entropy log_2(2^n!). A QPP can be used to create a pseudo QRNG or pQRNG capable integrated with any classical computing system or directly with any application for good quality deterministic random number generation. Using a QPP pad with 64 8-bit permuation matrices, pQRNG holds 107,776 bits of entropy for the pseudo random number generation, comparing with 4096 bits of entropy in Linux \/dev\/random. It can be used as a deterministic PRNG or entropy booster of other PRNGs. It can also be used as a whitening algorithm for any hardware random number generator including QRNG without discarding physical bias bits.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c32f026 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c32f026\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6e05e13\" data-id=\"6e05e13\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0787075 elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"0787075\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"QNC-4\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0cb482c elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"0cb482c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-eb8b33c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"eb8b33c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<hr style=\"background: #F87431; border: 0; height: 3px;\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-99b8ecf elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"99b8ecf\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-0b8fe6f\" data-id=\"0b8fe6f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c1da14a elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"c1da14a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Fri, Oct 22 @ 10:45-12:15 \u2014 QNC-4: Quantum Networking &amp; Communications 4\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFri, Oct 22 @ 10:45-12:15 \u2014 QNC-4: Quantum Networking &amp; Communications 4\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">The Quantum Internet: A Communication Engineering Perspective (Invited Presentation)<\/span><br>Marcello Caleffi, Jessica Illiano, Seid Koudia, Angela Sara Cacciapuoti (Univ. of Naples Federico II)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-44ec111 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"44ec111\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">10:45-11:15 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-eb5f18d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"eb5f18d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Internet just turned 50: five decades that shaped the world we live in. Indeed, Internet itself evolved astonishingly since the beginning, from a network prototype consisting of a few static nodes in the early days to a leviathan interconnecting with billions of devices half of the world\u2019s population. Yet the fundamental assumption underlying Internet\u2019s design \u2013 i.e., transmitting messages that can be encoded in a sequence of classical bits \u2013 remained unchanged during these five decades. But the dawn of the engineering phase of quantum technologies is challenging Internet\u2019s fundamental assumption. Quantum devices demand for communication primitives \u2013 namely, the ability to distribute entangled states and to transmit quantum information \u2013 governed by the laws of quantum mechanics. Hence, principles and phenomena with no counterpart in classical networks require a major network-paradigm shift to harness the quantum mechanics specificities. This presentation aims at shedding light on the challenges and the open problems arising with the design of a protocol stack for the Quantum Internet.\n<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b7b9ec3 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"b7b9ec3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Networking Trapped-Ion Quantum Computers (Invited Presentation)<\/span><br>Chris Ballance (Univ. of Oxford)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-710d265 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"710d265\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">11:15-11:45 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f2e4886 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f2e4886\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Quantum networks of quantum computers offer a promising way to build quantum supercomputing clusters, as well as enabling many new applications. In this talk, I will present our work on networking trapped-ion quantum computers. There are many different physical systems used for quantum computing and for quantum networking; it is challenging to find systems that offer both high performance qubits and high performance networking. I will describe a scalable approach to networking trapped-ion quantum processors, and present results showing a network-link fidelity and rate comparable to the intra-processor operations, allowing the networking operation to be used as a practical computing primitive. I will then present two applications of these networking primitives: (1) demonstrating Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution (DIQKD), taking advantage of the processor&#8217;s local operations and quantum memory to securely distribute a secret key across the network; (2) performing entanglement enhancement spectroscopy between two networked optical atomic clocks.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-873429c elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"873429c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">A Complete Quantum Circuit to Solve the Information Set Decoding Problem<\/span><br>Simone Perriello, Alessandro Barenghi, Gerardo Pelosi (Polytecnico di Milano)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8939373 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8939373\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">11:45-12:15 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-41ccd60 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"41ccd60\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Providing strong security margins against cryptanalytic attackers equipped with quantum computers is a major research direction fostered by the USA National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Post-quantum Cryptography Standardization process. Among the viable candidates, code-based asymmetric cryptosystems are one of the prominent approaches. In this work, we propose the first fully detailed quantum circuit to accelerate the solution of the Information Set Decoding problem, the main cryptanalytic tool against such cryptosystems. Our circuit design employs only the Clifford+T gate set, one of the most promising candidates for fault-tolerant quantum computation and does not require quantum RAM. We evaluate the cryptanalytic effort with our circuit design on actual parameters from cryptosystems admitted to the final stage of the NIST standardization process and compare it with the previous conservative asymptotic estimates. We show that the actual computational effort of our solution is smaller than the one estimated via asymptotics by a factor ranging from 4 to 16; while reporting that the conservative margins taken in the design parameters of code-based cryptosystems allow them to benefit of a computational security margin greater than the one needed to quantum-accelerate the brute-forcing of the secret key of an AES cipher, as per the NIST requirements, for various security levels.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-764b7ea elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"764b7ea\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0a8c253\" data-id=\"0a8c253\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e4d38f3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"e4d38f3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"QAA-7\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b15168b elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"b15168b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bf6527d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bf6527d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<hr style=\"background: #F87431; border: 0; height: 3px;\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-109ce43 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"109ce43\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-80b94a5\" data-id=\"80b94a5\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2a3ea97 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"2a3ea97\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Fri, Oct 22 @ 13:00-14:30 \u2014 QAA-7: Quantum Algorithms &amp; Applications 7\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFri, Oct 22 @ 13:00-14:30 \u2014 QAA-7: Quantum Algorithms &amp; Applications 7\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Quantum Optimization Heuristics with an Application to Knapsack Problems<\/span><br>Wim van Dam (UC-Santa Barbara), Karim Eldefrawy, Nicholas Genise (SRI Intl.), Natalie Parham (Univ. of Waterloo)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c5a6aad elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c5a6aad\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">13:00-13:30 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4146675 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4146675\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">This paper introduces two techniques that make the standard Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) more suitable for constrained optimization problems. The first technique describes how to use the outcome of a prior greedy classical algorithm to define an initial quantum state and mixing operation to adjust the quantum optimization algorithm to explore the possible answers around this initial greedy solution. The second technique is used to nudge the quantum exploration to avoid the local minima around the greedy solutions. To analyze the benefits of these two techniques we run the quantum algorithm on known hard instances of the Knapsack Problem using unit depth quantum circuits. The results show that the adjusted quantum optimization heuristic typically perform better than various classical heuristics. The paper concludes by describing how solutions to Knapsack-like problems have applications in the cybersecurity setting of defending oneself against Distributed Denial of Service attacks.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a65cf44 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"a65cf44\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Transferability of Optimal QAOA Parameters between Random Graphs<\/span><br>Alexey Galda (Univ. of Chicago), Danylo Lykov (Argonne Natl. Lab), Xiaoyuan Liu, Ilya Safro (Univ. of Delaware), Yuri Alexeev (Argonne Natl. Lab)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2f2f399 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2f2f399\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">13:30-14:00 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0510551 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0510551\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">The Quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is one of the most promising candidates for achieving quantum advantage through quantum-enhanced combinatorial optimization. In a typical QAOA setup, a set of quantum circuit parameters is optimized to prepare a quantum state used to find the optimal solution of a combinatorial optimization problem. Several empirical observations about optimal parameter concentration effects for special QAOA MaxCut problem instances have been made in recent literature, however, a rigorous study of the subject is still lacking. We show that convergence of the optimal QAOA parameters around specific values and, consequently, successful transferability of parameters between different QAOA instances can be explained and predicted based on the local properties of the graphs, specifically the types of subgraphs (lightcones) from which the graphs are composed. We apply this approach to random regular and general random graphs. For example, we demonstrate how optimized parameters calculated for a 6-node random graph can be successfully used without modification as nearly optimal parameters for a 64-node random graph, with less than 1% reduction in approximation ratio as a result. This work presents a pathway to identifying classes of combinatorial optimization instances for which such variational quantum algorithms as QAOA can be substantially accelerated.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d3ca13f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d3ca13f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">14:00-14:30 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6494f56 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"6494f56\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Adapting Quantum Approximation Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) for Unit Commitment<\/span>Samantha Koretsky (Univ. of Chicago), Pranav Gokhale (Super.tech), Jonathan Baker , Joshua Viszlai (Univ. of Chicago), Hanhao Zheng, Niroj Gurung, Ruan Burg, Aleksi Paaso (Commonwealth Edison), Amin Khodaei (Univ. of Denver), Rozhin Eskandarpour (Resilient Entanglement), Fred Chong (Univ. of Chicago)\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-09fd597 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"09fd597\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">In the present Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ), hybrid algorithms that leverage classical resources to reduce quantum costs are particularly appealing. We formulate and apply such a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm to a power system optimization problem called Unit Commitment, which aims to satisfy a target power load at minimal cost. Our algorithm extends the Quantum Approximation Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) with a classical minimizer in order to support mixed binary optimization. Using Qiskit, we simulate results for sample systems to validate the effectiveness of our approach. We also compare to purely classical methods. Our results indicate that classical solvers are effective for our simulated Unit Commitment instances with fewer than 400 power generation units. However, for larger problem instances, the classical solvers either scale exponentially in runtime or must resort to coarse approximations. This opens the door to potential quantum advantage for systems with several hundred units, though quantum error correction may be necessary at this scale.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-df91bdc elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"df91bdc\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4c30076\" data-id=\"4c30076\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f7831cc elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"f7831cc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"QCS-4\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6d93fda elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"6d93fda\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bce69a4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bce69a4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<hr style=\"background: #F87431; 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Systems 4\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-icon-box-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFri, Oct 22 @ 15:15-16:45 \u2014 QCS-4: Quantum Computing &amp; Systems 4\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Quantum Fan-out: Circuit Optimizations and Technology Modeling<\/span><br>Pranav Gokhale (Super.tech), Samantha Koretsky (Univ. of Chicago), Shilin Huang, Swarnadeep Majumder (Duke Univ.), Andrew Drucer (Univ. of Chicago), Kenneth Brown (Duke Univ.), Fred Chong (Univ. of Chicago))\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6bb8e73 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6bb8e73\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Time:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">15:15-15:45 Mountain Time (MDT) \u2014 UTC-6<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-60ee3a3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"60ee3a3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">Abstract: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\">Instruction scheduling is a key compiler optimization in quantum computing, just as it is for classical computing. Current schedulers optimize for data parallelism by allowing simultaneous execution of instructions, as long as their qubits do not overlap. However, on many quantum hardware platforms, instructions on overlapping qubits can be executed simultaneously through global interactions. For example, while fan-out in traditional quantum circuits can only be implemented sequentially when viewed at the logical level, global interactions at the physical level allow fan-out to be achieved in one step. We leverage this simultaneous fan-out primitive to optimize circuit synthesis for NISQ (Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum) workloads. In addition, we introduce novel quantum memory architectures based on fan-out. Our work also addresses hardware implementation of the fan-out primitive. We perform realistic simulations for trapped ion quantum computers. We also demonstrate experimental proof-of-concept of fan-out with superconducting qubits. We perform depth (runtime) and fidelity estimation for NISQ application circuits and quantum memory architectures under realistic noise models. Our simulations indicate promising results with an asymptotic advantage in runtime, as well as 7-24% reduction in error.<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a0abdd5 elementor-position-left elementor-view-default elementor-mobile-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon-box\" data-id=\"a0abdd5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-wrapper\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#technicalpapersoverview\" class=\"elementor-icon\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-up\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-box-content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-icon-box-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 20px\">Error Mitigation for Deep Quantum Optimization Circuits by Leveraging Problem Symmetries<\/span><br>Ruslan Shaydulin (Argonne Natl. 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In this paper we introduce an application-specific approach for mitigating the errors in QAOA evolution by leveraging the symmetries present in the classical objective function to be optimized. Specifically, the QAOA state is projected into the symmetry-restricted subspace, with projection being performed either at the end of the circuit or throughout the evolution. Our approach improves the fidelity of the QAOA state, thereby increasing both the accuracy of the sample estimate of the QAOA objective and the probability of sampling the binary string corresponding to that objective value. We demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed methods on QAOA applied to the MaxCut problem, although our methods are general and apply to any objective function with symmetries, as well as to the generalization of QAOA with alternative mixers. We experimentally verify the proposed methods on an IBM Quantum processor, utilizing up to 5 qubits. 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