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most citedScaling Quantum Approximate Optimization on Near-term Hardware

38 citations · 62 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

quant-ph2022

Software for Massively Parallel Quantum Computing

Thien Nguyen, Daanish Arya, Marcus Doherty +5

Quantum computing has the potential to offer substantial computational advantages over conventional computing. Recent advances in quantum computing hardware and algorithms have ena…

quant-ph2022

Snowmass White Paper: Quantum Computing Systems and Software for High-energy Physics Research

Travis S. Humble, Andrea Delgado, Raphael Pooser +23

Quantum computing offers a new paradigm for advancing high-energy physics research by enabling novel methods for representing and reasoning about fundamental quantum mechanical phe…

quant-ph2022★ 38 cited

Scaling Quantum Approximate Optimization on Near-term Hardware

Phillip C. Lotshaw, Thien Nguyen, Anthony Santana +5

The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is an approach for near-term quantum computers to potentially demonstrate computational advantage in solving combinatorial opt…

quant-ph2021

Quantum Circuit Transformations with a Multi-Level Intermediate Representation Compiler

Thien Nguyen, Dmitry Lyakh, Raphael C. Pooser +3

Quantum computing promises remarkable approaches for processing information, but new tools are needed to compile program representations into the physical instructions required by…

quant-ph2021

Enabling Retargetable Optimizing Compilers for Quantum Accelerators via a Multi-Level Intermediate Representation

Thien Nguyen, Alexander McCaskey

We present a multi-level quantum-classical intermediate representation (IR) that enables an optimizing, retargetable, ahead-of-time compiler for available quantum programming langu…

quant-ph2021

QuaSiMo: A Composable Library to Program Hybrid Workflows for Quantum Simulation

Thien Nguyen, Lindsay Bassman, Phillip C. Lotshaw +7

We present a composable design scheme for the development of hybrid quantum/classical algorithms and workflows for applications of quantum simulation. Our object-oriented approach…

quant-ph2021

Extending Python for Quantum-Classical Computing via Quantum Just-in-Time Compilation

Thien Nguyen, Alexander J. McCaskey

Python is a popular programming language known for its flexibility, usability, readability, and focus on developer productivity. The quantum software community has adopted Python o…

quant-ph2021★ 2 cited

Tensor Network Quantum Virtual Machine for Simulating Quantum Circuits at Exascale

Thien Nguyen, Dmitry Lyakh, Eugene Dumitrescu +3

The numerical simulation of quantum circuits is an indispensable tool for development, verification and validation of hybrid quantum-classical algorithms on near-term quantum co-pr…

quant-ph2021

A MLIR Dialect for Quantum Assembly Languages

Alexander McCaskey, Thien Nguyen

We demonstrate the utility of the Multi-Level Intermediate Representation (MLIR) for quantum computing. Specifically, we extend MLIR with a new quantum dialect that enables the exp…

quant-ph2021★ 4 cited

Composable Programming of Hybrid Workflows for Quantum Simulation

Thien Nguyen, Lindsay Bassman, Dmitry Lyakh +6

We present a composable design scheme for the development of hybrid quantum/classical algorithms and workflows for applications of quantum simulation. Our object-oriented approach…

quant-ph2020★ 4 cited

Extending C++ for Heterogeneous Quantum-Classical Computing

Thien Nguyen, Anthony Santana, Tyler Kharazi +3

We present qcor - a language extension to C++ and compiler implementation that enables heterogeneous quantum-classical programming, compilation, and execution in a single-source co…

quant-ph2020

Extending XACC for Quantum Optimal Control

Thien Nguyen, Anthony Santana, Alexander McCaskey

Quantum computing vendors are beginning to open up application programming interfaces for direct pulse-level quantum control. With this, programmers can begin to describe quantum k…

quant-ph2020

Enabling Pulse-level Programming, Compilation, and Execution in XACC

Thien Nguyen, Alexander McCaskey

Noisy gate-model quantum processing units (QPUs) are currently available from vendors over the cloud, and digital quantum programming approaches exist to run low-depth circuits on…

quant-ph2017★ 8 cited

Pole Placement Approach to Coherent Passive Reservoir Engineering for Storing Quantum Information

T. Nguyen, Z. Miao, Y. Pan +3

Reservoir engineering is the term used in quantum control and information technologies to describe manipulating the environment within which an open quantum system operates. Reserv…

quant-ph2015★ 6 cited

Stabilizing Quantum States and Automatic Error Correction by Dissipation Control

Yu Pan, Thien Nguyen

In this paper an extended scalability condition is proposed to achieve the ground-state stability for a class of multipartite quantum systems which may involve two-body interaction…