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quant-ph2018★ 82 cited

Performance of the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm on the Maximum Cut Problem

Gavin E. Crooks

The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is a promising approach for programming a near-term gate-based hybrid quantum computer to find good approximate solutions of h…

quant-ph2018★ 233 cited

PennyLane: Automatic differentiation of hybrid quantum-classical computations

Ville Bergholm, Josh Izaac, Maria Schuld +65

PennyLane is a Python 3 software framework for differentiable programming of quantum computers. The library provides a unified architecture for near-term quantum computing devices,…

quant-ph2018

Computational modeling of decay and hybridization in superconducting circuits

Michael G. Scheer, Maxwell B. Block

We present a framework for modeling superconducting circuits that integrates classical microwave analysis with circuit quantization. Our framework enables the calculation of the lo…

quant-ph2018★ 34 cited

Lifetime renormalization of weakly anharmonic superconducting qubits: I. Role of number non-conserving terms

Moein Malekakhlagh, Alexandru Petrescu, Hakan E. Türeci

The dynamics of a weakly anharmonic superconducting qubit in a complex electromagnetic environment is generally well-described by an effective multimode Kerr Hamiltonian at suffici…

quant-ph2018★ 44 cited

AC flux sweet spots in parametrically-modulated superconducting qubits

Nicolas Didier, Eyob A. Sete, Joshua Combes +1

The ubiquitous presence of flux noise was a significant barrier to long-coherence in superconducting qubits until the development of qubits that could operate in static, flux…

quant-ph2018★ 28 cited

Quantum Kitchen Sinks: An algorithm for machine learning on near-term quantum computers

C. M. Wilson, J. S. Otterbach, N. Tezak +7

Noisy intermediate-scale quantum computing devices are an exciting platform for the exploration of the power of near-term quantum applications. Performing nontrivial tasks in such…