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Physics Research Conference

Thursday, October 4, 2018
4:00pm to 5:00pm
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East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
What to do with a Near Term Quantum Computer
Edward Farhi, Cecil & Ida Green Professor of Physics, Emeritus, Google/MIT,
In the next few years we will have hardware with tens or maybe hundreds of qubits which can be used to explore quantum algorithms. I will discuss ideas for what algorithms to run on these pre-error corrected devices. In particular I will focus on the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm and setups for Quantum Machine Learning. I will advocate trying things on quantum devices without proof in advance that they will ultimately outperform classical algorithms.
For more information, please contact Sheri Stoll by phone at 395-6608 or by email at [email protected] or visit http://pmaweb.caltech.edu/~physcoll/PhysColl.html.