{"id":152,"date":"2019-07-16T10:13:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T10:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.lsv.ens-paris-saclay.fr\/confsrentree\/?page_id=152"},"modified":"2019-09-11T12:15:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T12:15:03","slug":"towards-a-quantum-computational-advantage-with-near-term-technologies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/projects.lsv.ens-paris-saclay.fr\/confsrentree\/?page_id=152","title":{"rendered":"Towards a quantum computational advantage with near-term technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-103\" src=\"https:\/\/perso.ens-lyon.fr\/omar.fawzi\/photo_omar_2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"170\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/perso.ens-lyon.fr\/omar.fawzi\/\">Omar Fawzi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ens-lyon.fr\/DI\/\">ENS Lyon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the goals of quantum information science in the next few years is to use the available quantum technologies to demonstrate a speedup over classical computers for some computational task.<\/p>\n<p>In this talk, I will start by describing the model of quantum computing, the corresponding complexity classes as well as the basic quantum algorithmic techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Then, I will describe some of the recent research activity aiming to achieve a quantum computational advantage with current technologies, focusing on Bravyi, Gosset and Koenig&#8217;s paper <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1704.00690\">quantum advantage with shallow circuits<\/a> and, if time permits, on Bouland, Fefferman, Nirkhe and Vazirani&#8217;s paper <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1803.04402\">quantum supremacy and the complexity of random circuit sampling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>John Watrous&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/cs.uwaterloo.ca\/~watrous\/LectureNotes.html\">lecture notes.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/search\/quant-ph?searchtype=author&amp;query=Watts%2C+A+B\">Adam Bene Watts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/search\/quant-ph?searchtype=author&amp;query=Kothari%2C+R\">Robin Kothari<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/search\/quant-ph?searchtype=author&amp;query=Schaeffer%2C+L\">Luke Schaeffer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/search\/quant-ph?searchtype=author&amp;query=Tal%2C+A\">Avishay Tal<\/a>. \u00a0Exponential separation between shallow quantum circuits and unbounded fan-in shallow classical circuits. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/\">arXiv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1906.08890\">1906:08890<\/a>, June 2019.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omar Fawzi, ENS Lyon. One of the goals of quantum information science in the next few years is to use the available quantum technologies to demonstrate a speedup over classical computers for some computational task. In this talk, I will start by describing the model of quantum computing, the corresponding complexity classes as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-152","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.lsv.ens-paris-saclay.fr\/confsrentree\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.lsv.ens-paris-saclay.fr\/confsrentree\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.lsv.ens-paris-saclay.fr\/confsrentree\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.lsv.ens-paris-saclay.fr\/confsrentree\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.lsv.ens-paris-saclay.fr\/confsrentree\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/projects.lsv.ens-paris-saclay.fr\/confsrentree\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/projects.lsv.ens-paris-saclay.fr\/confsrentree\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/152\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.lsv.ens-paris-saclay.fr\/confsrentree\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}