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Program DL (PDF)Day 1 : Tuesday, 6/22/2021, JST
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08:50

Opening


Hidetoshi Nishimori

Chair : Elizabeth Crosson

09:00

AbstractNon-stoquasticity and non-simulability in AQC


Invited

Itay Hen (University of Southern California)

09:30

Abstract(Sub) Exponential advantage of adiabatic quantum computation with no sign problem


Invited

Andras Gilyén (Caltech)

10:00

AbstractSingle-qubit fidelity assessment of quantum annealing hardware


Jon A. Nelson (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

10:15

AbstractProgrammable quantum annealers as noisy Gibbs samplers


Andrey Lokhov (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

10:30

SlidesAbstractLarge neighborhood local search with efficient embeddings


Jack Raymond (D-Wave Systems)

10:45

Poster A

11:45

Break

Chair : Wolfgang Lechner

16:30

SlidesAbstractProbing the universality of topological defect formation in a quantum annealer


Invited

Adolfo del Campo (University of Luxembourg)

17:00

SlidesAbstractEnergetic perspective on rapid quenches in quantum annealing


Adam Callison (University College London)

17:15

AbstractVariational counterdiabatic driving of the p-spin model


Gianluca Passarelli (Universita' di Napoli Federico II & CNR-SPIN Napoli)

17:30

SlidesAbstractTesting quantumness in the transverse-field Ising model using the perturbed ferromagnetic chain


Daniel O'Connor (University College London)

17:45

Poster B

18:45 End of Day 1
Addendum

SlidesAbstractKirchhoff's Laws as a Classical Model for Superconducting Annealing: Successes and Opportunities


David G. Ferguson (Northrop Grumman)

Day 2 : Wednesday, 6/23/2021, JST
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Chair : Richard Harris

09:00

AbstractSemiclassicality and noncontextuality of Hamiltonians


Invited

Peter Love (Tufts University)

09:30

AbstractSymmetry and error mitigation in quantum alternating operator ansatz


Invited

Zhihui Wang (NASA Ames Research Center)

10:00

AbstractDemonstration of a highly controllable quantum processor for advanced annealing algorithms


Invited

Steven M. Disseler (Northrop Grumman Corporation)

10:30

AbstractExperimental realization of spin liquids in a programmable quantum device


Shiyu Zhou (Boston University)

10:45

AbstractCharacterization of QUBO reformulations for the maximum k-colorable subgraph problem


Luis Zuluaga (Lehigh University)

11:00

SlidesAbstractKibble-Zurek scaling in the fast-anneal regime


Andrew D. King (D-Wave)

11:15

Poster C

12:15

Break

Chair : Yuichi Nakamura

13:30

Special session on (inter)national projects for quantum annealing

SlidesAbstractAchievements of the IARPA-QEO and DARPA-QAFS programs, and the prospects for quantum enhancement with quantum annealing


Daniel A. Lidar (USC)

14:00

Special session

AbstractOverview of NEDO projects on quantum annealing machines in Japan


Shiro Kawabata (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST))

14:30

Special session

AbstractIntroducing project AVaQus: Annealing-based variational quantum processors


Pol Forn-Diaz (Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies (IFAE))

15:00

Break

Chair : Giuseppe Santoro

16:30

SlidesAbstractExtended Ising machine for future DAUs


Hirotaka Tamura (DXR Laboratory Inc.)

16:45

SlidesAbstractLarge-scale optical simulator for spin glasses and adiabatic computing


Davide Pierangeli (Sapienza University of Rome and Institute for Complex System (ISC-CNR), Rome, Italy)

17:00

SlidesAbstractA domain wall encoding of variables for quantum annealing


Nicholas Chancellor (Durham University)

17:15

End of Day 2

Day 3 : Thursday, 6/24/2021, JST
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Chair : Aaron P. Lott

09:00

AbstractLandscapes, trainability, and scalability of variational quantum algorithms


Invited

Patrick Coles (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

09:30

SlidesAbstractAdiabatic theorem for unbounded Hamiltonians of superconducting circuits


Invited

Evgeny Mozgunov (University of Southern California)

10:00

AbstractOutrunning the bear: Quantum annealing in the presence of an environment


Invited

Richard Harris (D-Wave Systems)

10:30

AbstractNext-generation quantum annealing testbed


Steven J. Weber (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

10:45

AbstractUniversal diabatic quantum annealing


Milad Marvian (University of New Mexico)

11:00

AbstractNumerically exact modelling of flux qubit chains subject to hybrid flux and charge noise


Matthew R. C. Fitzpatrick (Simon Fraser University)

11:15

SlidesAbstractFinding the ground state of spin Hamiltonians with reinforcement learning


Kyle Mills (1QBit, Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence)

11:30

Poster D

12:30

Break

Chair : Paul Warburton

16:30

AbstractVariational counter diabatic drivings in rotating frames


Invited

Glen Mbeng (University of Innsbruck)

 
17:00

SlidesAbstractQuantum phase transition dynamics in the two-dimensional transverse Ising model


Marek Rams (Jagiellonian University, Poland)

17:15

SlidesAbstractMediator-assisted cooling in quantum annealing


Manuel Pino Garcia (CSIC)

17:30

AbstractImplementation of complex physical systems on quantum annealers


Steven Abel (Durham University, Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology)

17:45

Poster E

18:45

End of Day 3

Day 4 : Friday, 6/25/2021, JST
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Chair : Daniel Lidar

09:00

AbstractFrom quantum algorithms to out-of-equilibrium phenomena in interacting spin chains


Invited

Guido Pagano (Rice University)

09:30

AbstractQuantum machine learning on quantum annealers


Invited

Seth Lloyd (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

10:00

SlidesAbstractNeural simulated classical and quantum annealing


Mohamed Hibat-Allah (University of Waterloo/Vector Institute)

10:15

AbstractVariational quantum annealing simulations of non-stoquastic Hamiltonians


Estelle Inack (Perimeter institute)

10:30

AbstractBenchmarking Ising model optimization with corrupted biased ferromagnets


Carleton Coffrin (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

10:45

AbstractQuantum annealing with special drivers for circuit fault diagnosis


Federico M. Spedalieri (Information Sciences Institute - University of Southern California)

11:00

Poster F

12:00

Break

Chair : Tadashi Kadowaki

16:30

AbstractHow to perform iterative-structured machine learning by quantum annealer


Invited

Masayuki Ohzeki (Tohoku University)

17:00

AbstractTraffic optimization by quantum annealing


Shusaku Kamei (Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University)

17:15

SlidesAbstractEnergy efficient mobile network routing using hybrid quantum algorithms


Jie Chen (Durham University)

17:30

AbstractFast forward of quantum annealing model in triangle spin systems


Iwan Setiawan (University of Bengkulu, Indonesia)

17:45

Closing


Hidetoshi Nishimori

17:50

End of Day 4