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Quantum Class 22, Mon 2020-11-16

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1 Remaining classes

23 Thurs 11/19

guest speaker Edwin Fohtung WRF filling in remaining time for each class.

24 Mon 11/23

guest speaker Rena Huang

25 Mon 11/30

guest speaker Sufei Shi

26 Thurs 12/3

student presentations

27 Mon 12/7

student presentations

28 Mon 12/10

student presentations

2 Final project

  1. Because of the unexpected popularity of this class, there's no time for a second round of quick student presentations. Instead, work a little harder on the final project.

  2. The final project may be done in teams of up to three students.

  3. Deliverables:

    1. Video presentation to class, in one of the last 3 class days.

    2. Presentation length: 1 student - approx 12 min, 2 students: 15-20, 3: 20-30.

    3. Eight page paper describing the project, written using the style of an IEEE or ACM journal or conference.

    4. It will be due as a PDF file on Dec 11, the last class day.

    5. Sign up by emailing me your team members and preferred dates (in preferred order if you care). It's helpful if the subject contains quantum.

4 Trapped ion quantum computing

  1. competitor to superconducting transmons (JJs).

  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapped_ion_quantum_computer

  3. Proponents say that it's better than transmon qbits.

  4. What is an Ion Trap Quantum Computer? 2:30, 2/19/18.

4.1 IonQ

  1. founders from Maryland/College Park and Duke.

  2. trapped ion

  3. 32 qbits.

  4. low error rate

  5. excellent quantum volume

  6. will be available from Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS Braket.

  7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IonQ

  8. https://ionq.com/

  9. https://ionq.com/technology

    "To date, we’ve run single-qubit gates on a 79 ion chain, and complex algorithms on chains of up to 11 ions."

  10. https://ionq.com/posts/october-01-2020-most-powerful-quantum-computer

  11. Startup IonQ announces next-gen quantum computing system 1:49.