scholarly journals Introduction to Quantum Computing

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Surya Teja Marella ◽  
Hemanth Sai Kumar Parisa
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Computing ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Quantum Computer ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Quantum Computers ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Traffic Optimization ◽  
Insight Into

Quantum computing is a modern way of computing that is based on the science of quantum mechanics and its unbelievable phenomena. It is a beautiful combination of physics, mathematics, computer science and information theory. It provides high computational power, less energy consumption and exponential speed over classical computers by controlling the behavior of small physical objects i.e. microscopic particles like atoms, electrons, photons, etc. Here, we present an introduction to the fundamental concepts and some ideas of quantum computing. This paper starts with the origin of traditional computing and discusses all the improvements and transformations that have been done due to their limitations until now. Then it moves on to the basic working of quantum computing and the quantum properties it follows like superposition, entanglement and interference. To understand the full potentials and challenges of a practical quantum computer that can be launched commercially, the paper covers the architecture, hardware, software, design, types and algorithms that are specifically required by the quantum computers. It uncovers the capability of quantum computers that can impact our lives in various viewpoints like cyber security, traffic optimization, medicines, artificial intelligence and many more. At last, we concluded all the importance, advantages and disadvantages of quantum computers. Small-scale quantum computers are being developed recently. This development is heading towards a great future due to their high potential capabilities and advancements in ongoing research. Before focusing on the significances of a general-purpose quantum computer and exploring the power of the new arising technology, it is better to review the origin, potentials, and limitations of the existing traditional computing. This information helps us in understanding the possible challenges in developing exotic and competitive technology. It will also give us an insight into the ongoing progress in this field.

scholarly journals An Extensible Computing Platform for Heavy Quantum Simulation Workloads

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrés García ◽  
José Ranilla ◽  
Raul Alonso Alvarez ◽  
Luis Meijueiro
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Computing ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Quantum Computer ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Quantum Circuits ◽  
Quantum Computers ◽  
Computing Platform ◽  
Current State ◽  
Classical Computing ◽  
Computing Simulation

The shortage of quantum computers, and their current state of development, constraints research in many fields that could benefit from quantum computing. Although the work of a quantum computer can be simulated with classical computing, personal computers take so long to run quantum experiments that they are not very useful for the progress of research. This manuscript presents an open quantum computing simulation platform that enables quantum computing researchers to have access to high performance simulations. This platform, called QUTE, relies on a supercomputer powerful enough to simulate general purpose quantum circuits of up to 38 qubits, and even more under particular simulations. This manuscript describes in-depth the characteristics of the QUTE platform and the results achieved in certain classical experiments in this field, which would give readers an accurate idea of the system capabilities.

scholarly journals Tools for Performing and Emulating Quantum Computing

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-53
Author(s):  
Pavel E. Baskakov ◽  
Yuri Yu. Khabovets ◽  
Irina A. Pilipenko ◽  
Veronika O. Kravchenko ◽  
Larisa V. Cherkesova
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Computing ◽  
Programming Languages ◽  
Quantum Computer ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Computer Work ◽  
Quantum Computers ◽  
Web Interface ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Quantum Programming ◽  
Main Language

Currently, quantum technologies are at the forefront of scientific thought. Large corporations are creating their own quantum supercomputers, developing quantum analogues of classical algorithms, and research is being conducted in the field of quantum cryptography. But since quantum computers have not yet become widespread, the question becomes relevant: how can ordinary users, scientists and researchers keep up with the development of science? One possible solution is to use various kinds of tools to emulate quantum computing on a local non-quantum computer. In addition, there is also the opportunity to have several qubits of IBM's quantum supercomputer available. As a rule, such tools are implemented in the form of libraries for various programming languages. Due to the fact that working with real quantum computers is available only to a narrow circle of researchers, emulators are simply necessary to test hypotheses or algorithms. This article examined the most popular quantum emulators used for quantum computing and allowing emulating the process of a quantum computer. Work was carried out to study quantum emulators, to identify and describe their individual characteristics, to make recommendations for a more convenient start to work with them, as well as to describe their advantages and disadvantages. A review of several libraries for the JavaScript, Python, C / C ++ languages was made, as well as a tool with a web interface (Quantum Programming Studio) and a set of tools from Microsoft (Microsoft Quantum Development Kit), the main language of which is Q #, is examined. At the end of the article, a conclusion is made regarding the considered tools.

scholarly journals Asset–liability modelling in the quantum era

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Berry ◽  
J. Sharpe
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Quantum Computer ◽  
Quantum Algorithm ◽  
Capital Requirements ◽  
Quantum Computers ◽  
Investment Management ◽  
Asset Liability Management ◽  
Liability Management ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Current Practices

Abstract This paper introduces and demonstrates the use of quantum computers for asset–liability management (ALM). A summary of historical and current practices in ALM used by actuaries is given showing how the challenges have previously been met. We give an insight into what ALM may be like in the immediate future demonstrating how quantum computers can be used for ALM. A quantum algorithm for optimising ALM calculations is presented and tested using a quantum computer. We conclude that the discovery of the strange world of quantum mechanics has the potential to create investment management efficiencies. This in turn may lead to lower capital requirements for shareholders and lower premiums and higher insured retirement incomes for policyholders.

Efficient reversible quantum design of sig-magnitude to two's complement converters

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (9&10) ◽  
pp. 747-765
Author(s):  
F. Orts ◽  
G. Ortega ◽  
E.M. E.M. Garzon
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Computing ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Quantum Computer ◽  
Fault Tolerant ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The Other ◽  
Quantum Computers ◽  
Binary Number ◽  
Quantum Cost ◽  
The One

Despite the great interest that the scientific community has in quantum computing, the scarcity and high cost of resources prevent to advance in this field. Specifically, qubits are very expensive to build, causing the few available quantum computers are tremendously limited in their number of qubits and delaying their progress. This work presents new reversible circuits that optimize the necessary resources for the conversion of a sign binary number into two's complement of N digits. The benefits of our work are two: on the one hand, the proposed two's complement converters are fault tolerant circuits and also are more efficient in terms of resources (essentially, quantum cost, number of qubits, and T-count) than the described in the literature. On the other hand, valuable information about available converters and, what is more, quantum adders, is summarized in tables for interested researchers. The converters have been measured using robust metrics and have been compared with the state-of-the-art circuits. The code to build them in a real quantum computer is given.

The Realization of New Computing Model and System Research Related to Quantum Computer

2014 ◽  
Vol 1078 ◽  
pp. 413-416
Author(s):  
Hai Yan Liu
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Computing ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Quantum Computer ◽  
Quantum Computers ◽  
Information Coding ◽  
Computing Model ◽  
Mechanics Model ◽  
Electronic Spin ◽  
Classical Computer

The ultimate goal of quantum calculation is to build high performance practical quantum computers. With quantum mechanics model of computer information coding and computational principle, it is proved in theory to be able to simulate the classical computer is currently completely, and with more classical computer, quantum computation is one of the most popular fields in physics research in recent ten years, has formed a set of quantum physics, mathematics. This paper to electronic spin doped fullerene quantum aided calculation scheme, we through the comprehensive use of logic based network and based on the overall control of the two kinds of quantum computing model, solve the addressing problem of nuclear spin, avoids the technical difficulties of pre-existing. We expect the final realization of the quantum computer will depend on the integrated use of in a variety of quantum computing model and physical realization system, and our primary work shows this feature..

scholarly journals Application of Quantum Computing to Biochemical Systems: A Look to the Future

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hai-Ping Cheng ◽  
Erik Deumens ◽  
James K. Freericks ◽  
Chenglong Li ◽  
Beverly A. Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Computing ◽  
Physical System ◽  
Quantum Computer ◽  
Quantum Algorithms ◽  
Active Regions ◽  
Quantum Computers ◽  
The Future ◽  
Biochemical Systems ◽  
Near Term ◽  
Different Levels

Chemistry is considered as one of the more promising applications to science of near-term quantum computing. Recent work in transitioning classical algorithms to a quantum computer has led to great strides in improving quantum algorithms and illustrating their quantum advantage. Because of the limitations of near-term quantum computers, the most effective strategies split the work over classical and quantum computers. There is a proven set of methods in computational chemistry and materials physics that has used this same idea of splitting a complex physical system into parts that are treated at different levels of theory to obtain solutions for the complete physical system for which a brute force solution with a single method is not feasible. These methods are variously known as embedding, multi-scale, and fragment techniques and methods. We review these methods and then propose the embedding approach as a method for describing complex biochemical systems, with the parts not only treated with different levels of theory, but computed with hybrid classical and quantum algorithms. Such strategies are critical if one wants to expand the focus to biochemical molecules that contain active regions that cannot be properly explained with traditional algorithms on classical computers. While we do not solve this problem here, we provide an overview of where the field is going to enable such problems to be tackled in the future.

scholarly journals Feature Selection for Recommender Systems with Quantum Computing

Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 970
Author(s):  
Riccardo Nembrini ◽  
Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema ◽  
Paolo Cremonesi
Keyword(s):  
Feature Selection ◽  
Quantum Computing ◽  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Domain Knowledge ◽  
Optimization Problems ◽  
Quantum Computer ◽  
Mathematical Formulation ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Quantum Computers ◽  
User Interactions

The promise of quantum computing to open new unexplored possibilities in several scientific fields has been long discussed, but until recently the lack of a functional quantum computer has confined this discussion mostly to theoretical algorithmic papers. It was only in the last few years that small but functional quantum computers have become available to the broader research community. One paradigm in particular,quantum annealing, can be used to sample optimal solutions for a number of NP-hard optimization problems represented with classical operations research tools, providing an easy access to the potential of this emerging technology. One of the tasks that most naturally fits in this mathematical formulation is feature selection. In this paper, we investigate how to design a hybrid feature selection algorithm for recommender systems that leverages the domain knowledge and behavior hidden in the user interactions data. We represent the feature selection as an optimization problem and solve it on a real quantum computer, provided by D-Wave. The results indicate that the proposed approach is effective in selecting a limited set of important features and that quantum computers are becoming powerful enough to enter the wider realm of applied science.

scholarly journals Dynamical Localization Simulated on Actual Quantum Hardware

Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 654
Author(s):  
Andrea Pizzamiglio ◽  
Su Yeon Chang ◽  
Maria Bondani ◽  
Simone Montangero ◽  
Dario Gerace ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Computing ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
Dynamical Localization ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Quantum Computers ◽  
Convenient Tool ◽  
Highly Sensitive

Quantum computers are invaluable tools to explore the properties of complex quantum systems. We show that dynamical localization of the quantum sawtooth map, a highly sensitive quantum coherent phenomenon, can be simulated on actual, small-scale quantum processors. Our results demonstrate that quantum computing of dynamical localization may become a convenient tool for evaluating advances in quantum hardware performances.

scholarly journals Overview and Comparison of Gate Level Quantum Software Platforms

Quantum ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan LaRose
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Computing ◽  
Quantum Computer ◽  
Quantum Computers ◽  
Quantum Devices ◽  
Software Packages ◽  
Software Platforms ◽  
Library Support ◽  
Quantum Simulator ◽  
Computing Landscape ◽  
A Current

Quantum computers are available to use over the cloud, but the recent explosion of quantum software platforms can be overwhelming for those deciding on which to use. In this paper, we provide a current picture of the rapidly evolving quantum computing landscape by comparing four software platforms - Forest (pyQuil), Qiskit, ProjectQ, and the Quantum Developer Kit (Q#) - that enable researchers to use real and simulated quantum devices. Our analysis covers requirements and installation, language syntax through example programs, library support, and quantum simulator capabilities for each platform. For platforms that have quantum computer support, we compare hardware, quantum assembly languages, and quantum compilers. We conclude by covering features of each and briefly mentioning other quantum computing software packages.

The D-Wave quantum computer – advantages and disadvantages of moving away from the circuit model

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (11-12/2020) ◽  
pp. 23-32
Author(s):  
Kacper Lenkiewicz ◽  
Joanna Wiśniewska
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Computing ◽  
Quantum Computer ◽  
Quantum Effects ◽  
Circuit Model ◽  
Quantum Annealing ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
The Subject ◽  
A Company ◽  
D Wave

The paper is based on a thesis with the same title. The purpose of this thesis is to analyse D-Wave devices using quantum effects. The research focuses on demonstrating the advantages and disadvantages of a company moving away from the circuit model in its computers. The subject of the research is the used adiabatic model of quantum computing based on the mechanism of quantum annealing. The research is based on publicly available, comprehensive documentation of D-Wave Systems. On the basis of scientific papers, conferences and information contained in websites, controversies, disadvantages and advantages of the solutions adopted have been described.

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