2015 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
トポロジカル量子アルゴリズムのためのデータ解析と整合性保証
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26540006
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| Research Institution | Institute of Physical and Chemical Research |
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Principal Investigator |
Devitt Simon 国立研究開発法人理化学研究所, 創発物性科学研究センター, 研究員 (90469601)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | Quantum Computing / Quantum Error Correction / Topological Computation / Software Compilation / Optimisation / Quantum Programming |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
For FY27 we have made significant progress on quantum circuit compilation and optimisation for both autonomous programs and the crowdsourced platform, meQuanics. As part of this project we have published five original research articles in major physics journals and computer science proceedings, given four invited talks at major quantum computing conferences, published a book chapter in the springer lecture notes in Physics (LNP) and edited an issue of the springer lecture notes in computer science (LNCS) as part of the conference "Reversible Computing 2016". We have successfully released two software packages to both compile fault-tolerant quantum circuits from arbitrary high level descriptions and to convert these compiled circuits into topological assembly code for further optimisation and implementation on surface code quantum computers. We initiated a kickstarter campaign for the meQuanics game, intended to raise further funding to complete the "gaming" elements sufficiently. The kickstarter campaign produced significant popular press coverage worldwide and has led to further potential investment in collaboration with the dutch research group QuTech. As part of this project, we have also initiated further community and public outreach by launching a popular internet radio show called "meet the meQuanics", designed to introduce quantum computing to the general public by speaking with experts worldwide. So far, seven episodes has been released.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
1: Research has progressed more than it was originally planned.
Reason
While our progress and development has not followed our original proposal exactly, we have completed more than initially expected. The meQuanics platform is still not yet completed, and we are currently working on the client based on the resources we have available. However, developments in other areas of quantum compilation and optimisation has progressed significantly. Two full software packages have been written and five research articles related to this work has been published with a further 6 papers in preparation. This work has received significant attention from researchers worldwide and several presentations have come from this work at international conferences.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Future research is to continue software development for control and optimisation packages for error-corrected quantum computation. Future projects include; Brute force error correction decoding package, Automated topological circuit optimiser, meQuanics crowd source topological optimisation client, Mapping software to convert topological circuits into hardware level instruction sets, Circuit verification packages, Renormalisation software for probabilistic quantum hardware models. Several of these packages are under development and at various stages of completion. We expect about half of the above packages to be completed within the next 12 months. Future research directions may extend or diverge depending on theoretical developments and discoveries
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| Causes of Carryover |
Certain publications are still in review that have related publishing fees. Current budget remaining is earmarked for thee papers
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| Expenditure Plan for Carryover Budget |
Publication charges for papers currently in review related to this project
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| Remarks |
Websites summarising both research output and media coverage related to this project and the website of the meQuanics client
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