Title:Â QCVV: Making Quantum Computers Less Broken Speaker:Â Â Kenneth Rudinger (Sandia National Laboratory) Time:Â Â Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - 11:00am Location:Â Â ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: Join Zoom Meeting https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=92105995014Â Â Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123
Quantum computing hardware capabilities have grown tremendously over the past decade, as evidenced by demonstrations of both quantum advantage and error-corrected logical qubits. Â These breakthroughs have been driven, in part, by advances in quantum characterization, verification, and validation (QCVV). Â I will discuss how QCVV provides a hardware-agnostic framework for assessing the performance of quantum computers; I will describe in detail how specific QCVV protocols (such as gate set tomography and robust phase estimation) have been used to characterize and significantly improve the performance of quantum hardware. Â Time-permitting, I will then turn to the problem of adapting extant characterization protocols for fault-tolerant hardware.
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