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Realizing Quantum Kernel Models at Scale with Matrix Product State Simulation
Mekena Metcalf, Pablo Andrés-Martínez, Nathan Fitzpatrick
Data representation in quantum state space offers an alternative function space for machine learning tasks. However, benchmarking these algorithms at a practical scale has been lim…
Quantum Multiple Kernel Learning in Financial Classification Tasks
Shungo Miyabe, Brian Quanz, Noriaki Shimada +11
Financial services is a prospect industry where unlocked near-term quantum utility could yield profitable potential, and, in particular, quantum machine learning algorithms could p…
Reinforcement learning pulses for transmon qubit entangling gates
Ho Nam Nguyen, Felix Motzoi, Mekena Metcalf +3
The utility of a quantum computer depends heavily on the ability to reliably perform accurate quantum logic operations. For finding optimal control solutions, it is of particular i…
Quantum Computing, Math, and Physics (QCaMP): Introducing quantum computing in high schools
Megan Ivory, Alisa Bettale, Rachel Boren +9
The nascent but rapidly growing field of Quantum Information Science and Technology has led to an increased demand for skilled quantum workers and an opportunity to build a diverse…
Emergent Order in Classical Data Representations on Ising Spin Models
Jorja J. Kirk, Matthew D. Jackson, Daniel J. M. King +2
Encoding classical data on quantum spin Hamiltonians yields ordered spin ground states which are used to discriminate data types for binary classification. The Ising Hamiltonian is…
Compact Molecular Simulation on Quantum Computers via Combinatorial Mapping and Variational State Preparation
Diana Chamaki, Mekena Metcalf, Wibe A. de Jong
Compact representations of fermionic Hamiltonians are necessary to perform calculations on quantum computers that lack error-correction. A fermionic system is typically defined wit…
Parametric Amplification of an Optomechanical Quantum Interconnect
Huo Chen, Marti Vives, Mekena Metcalf
Connecting superconducting qubits to optical fiber necessitates the conversion of microwave photons to optical photons. Modern experimental demonstrations exhibit strong coupling b…
Quantum Markov Chain Monte Carlo with Digital Dissipative Dynamics on Quantum Computers
Mekena Metcalf, Emma Stone, Katherine Klymko +3
Modeling the dynamics of a quantum system connected to the environment is critical for advancing our understanding of complex quantum processes, as most quantum processes in nature…
Simulating Quantum Materials with Digital Quantum Computers
Lindsay Bassman, Miroslav Urbanek, Mekena Metcalf +3
Quantum materials exhibit a wide array of exotic phenomena and practically useful properties. A better understanding of these materials can provide deeper insights into fundamental…
Dynamical Self-energy Mapping (DSEM) for quantum computing
Diksha Dhawan, Mekena Metcalf, Dominika Zgid
For noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices only a moderate number of qubits with a limited coherence is available thus enabling only shallow circuits and a few time evolut…
Quantum simulation of open quantum systems in heavy-ion collisions
Wibe A. de Jong, Mekena Metcalf, James Mulligan +3
We present a framework to simulate the dynamics of hard probes such as heavy quarks or jets in a hot, strongly-coupled quark-gluon plasma (QGP) on a quantum computer. Hard probes i…
Towards AI-enabled Control for Enhancing Quantum Transduction
Mekena Metcalf, Anastasiia Butko, Mariam Kiran
With advent of quantum internet, it becomes crucial to find novel ways to connect distributed quantum testbeds and develop novel technologies and research that extend innovations i…
Resource Efficient Chemistry on Quantum Computers with the Variational Quantum Eigensolver and The Double Unitary Coupled-Cluster approach
Mekena Metcalf, Nicholas P. Bauman, Karol Kowalski +1
Applications of quantum simulation algorithms to obtain electronic energies of molecules on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices require careful consideration of resourc…
Engineered thermalization and cooling of quantum many-body systems
Mekena Metcalf, Jonathan E. Moussa, Wibe A. de Jong +1
We develop a scheme for engineering genuine thermal states in analog quantum simulation platforms by coupling local degrees of freedom to driven, dissipative ancilla pseudospins. W…
Many-body multi-valuedness of particle-current variance in closed and open cold-atom systems
Mekena Metcalf, Chen-Yen Lai, Massimiliano Di Ventra +1
The quantum variance of an observable is a fundamental quantity in quantum mechanics, and the variance provides additional information other than the average itself. By examining t…
Protocols for dynamically probing topological edge states and dimerization with fermionic atoms in optical potentials
Mekena Metcalf, Chen-Yen Lai, Kevin Wright +1
Topological behavior has been observed in quantum systems including ultracold atoms. However, background harmonic traps for cold-atoms hinder direct detection of topological edge s…
Hysteresis of noninteracting and spin-orbit coupled atomic Fermi gases with relaxation
Mekena Metcalf, Chen-Yen Lai, Chih-Chun Chien
Hysteresis can be found in driven many-body systems such as magnets and superfluids. Rate-dependent hysteresis arises when a system is driven periodically while relaxing towards eq…
Matter-wave propagation in optical lattices: geometrical and flat-band effects
Mekena Metcalf, Gia-Wei Chern, Massimiliano Di Ventra +1
The geometry of optical lattices can be engineered allowing the study of atomic transport along paths arranged in patterns that are otherwise difficult to probe in the solid state.…