Plans for the week February 19-23

Dear all, sorry for the delayed message and the delay in preparing the edited version of week 6. Some of the notes on various gates will be presented during the lecture today. The lecture is in-person but we offer as always a zoom session as well. The lectures will be recorded.

The plan this week is to start studying how we can solve quantum mechanical problems and we will focus on

1. Repetition from last week and discussion of the first part of the project

2. Further discussions of gates and measurements

3. Introducing the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) and discussion of project 1

Readings

1. For the discussion of one-qubit, two-qubit and other gates, sections 2.6-2.11 and 3.1-3.4 of Hundt's book Quantum Computing for Programmers, contain most of the relevant information. We will repeat some of the these properties during the first part of the lecture.

2. The VQE algorithm is discussed in Hundt's section 6.11

We will also use (next week and later weeks as well) the recent review article by Tilly et al., see https://github.com/CompPhysics/QuantumComputingMachineLearning/blob/gh-pages/doc/articles/vqereview.pdf

This week's jupyter-notebook is at https://github.com/CompPhysics/QuantumComputingMachineLearning/blob/gh-pages/doc/pub/week6/ipynb/week6.ipynb

Best wishes to you all,

Keran, Morten, and Ruben