Opening

Hidetoshi Nishimori

Chair : Elizabeth Crosson

AbstractNon-stoquasticity and non-simulability in AQC

Invited

Itay Hen (University of Southern California)

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

Invited

Andras Gilyén (Caltech)

AbstractSingle-qubit fidelity assessment of quantum annealing hardware

Jon A. Nelson (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

AbstractProgrammable quantum annealers as noisy Gibbs samplers

Andrey Lokhov (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

SlidesAbstractLarge neighborhood local search with efficient embeddings

Jack Raymond (D-Wave Systems)

Poster A

Break

Chair : Wolfgang Lechner

SlidesAbstractProbing the universality of topological defect formation in a quantum annealer

Invited

Adolfo del Campo (University of Luxembourg)

SlidesAbstractEnergetic perspective on rapid quenches in quantum annealing

Adam Callison (University College London)

AbstractVariational counterdiabatic driving of the p-spin model

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

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

Daniel O'Connor (University College London)

Poster B

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

David G. Ferguson (Northrop Grumman)

Chair : Richard Harris

AbstractSemiclassicality and noncontextuality of Hamiltonians

Invited

Peter Love (Tufts University)

AbstractSymmetry and error mitigation in quantum alternating operator ansatz

Invited

Zhihui Wang (NASA Ames Research Center)

AbstractDemonstration of a highly controllable quantum processor for advanced annealing algorithms

Invited

Steven M. Disseler (Northrop Grumman Corporation)

AbstractExperimental realization of spin liquids in a programmable quantum device

Shiyu Zhou (Boston University)

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

Luis Zuluaga (Lehigh University)

SlidesAbstractKibble-Zurek scaling in the fast-anneal regime

Andrew D. King (D-Wave)

Poster C

Break

Chair : Yuichi Nakamura

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)

Special session

AbstractOverview of NEDO projects on quantum annealing machines in Japan

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

Special session

AbstractIntroducing project AVaQus: Annealing-based variational quantum processors

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

Break

Chair : Giuseppe Santoro

SlidesAbstractExtended Ising machine for future DAUs

Hirotaka Tamura (DXR Laboratory Inc.)

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)

SlidesAbstractA domain wall encoding of variables for quantum annealing

Nicholas Chancellor (Durham University)

End of Day 2

Chair : Aaron P. Lott

AbstractLandscapes, trainability, and scalability of variational quantum algorithms

Invited

Patrick Coles (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

SlidesAbstractAdiabatic theorem for unbounded Hamiltonians of superconducting circuits

Invited

Evgeny Mozgunov (University of Southern California)

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

Invited

Richard Harris (D-Wave Systems)

AbstractNext-generation quantum annealing testbed

Steven J. Weber (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

AbstractUniversal diabatic quantum annealing

Milad Marvian (University of New Mexico)

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

Matthew R. C. Fitzpatrick (Simon Fraser University)

SlidesAbstractFinding the ground state of spin Hamiltonians with reinforcement learning

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

Poster D

Break

Chair : Paul Warburton

AbstractVariational counter diabatic drivings in rotating frames

Invited

Glen Mbeng (University of Innsbruck)

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

Marek Rams (Jagiellonian University, Poland)

SlidesAbstractMediator-assisted cooling in quantum annealing

Manuel Pino Garcia (CSIC)

AbstractImplementation of complex physical systems on quantum annealers

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

Poster E

End of Day 3

Chair : Daniel Lidar

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

Invited

Guido Pagano (Rice University)

AbstractQuantum machine learning on quantum annealers

Invited

Seth Lloyd (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

SlidesAbstractNeural simulated classical and quantum annealing

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

AbstractVariational quantum annealing simulations of non-stoquastic Hamiltonians

Estelle Inack (Perimeter institute)

AbstractBenchmarking Ising model optimization with corrupted biased ferromagnets

Carleton Coffrin (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

AbstractQuantum annealing with special drivers for circuit fault diagnosis

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

Poster F

Break

Chair : Tadashi Kadowaki

AbstractHow to perform iterative-structured machine learning by quantum annealer

Invited

Masayuki Ohzeki (Tohoku University)

AbstractTraffic optimization by quantum annealing

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

SlidesAbstractEnergy efficient mobile network routing using hybrid quantum algorithms

Jie Chen (Durham University)

AbstractFast forward of quantum annealing model in triangle spin systems

Iwan Setiawan (University of Bengkulu, Indonesia)

Closing

Hidetoshi Nishimori

End of Day 4