Assessing and Advancing the Potential of Quantum Computing: A NASA Case Study

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15601v1
• Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 19:05:42 GMT
• Title: Assessing and Advancing the Potential of Quantum Computing: A NASA Case Study
• Authors: Eleanor G. Rieffel, Ata Akbari Asanjan, M. Sohaib Alam, Namit Anand, David E. Bernal Neira, Sophie Block, Lucas T. Brady, Steve Cotton, Zoe Gonzalez Izquierdo, Shon Grabbe, Erik Gustafson, Stuart Hadfield, P. Aaron Lott, Filip B. Maciejewski, Salvatore Mandrà, Jeffrey Marshall, Gianni Mossi, Humberto Munoz Bauza, Jason Saied, Nishchay Suri, Davide Venturelli, Zhihui Wang, Rupak Biswas,
• Abstract summary: We describe NASA's work in assessing and advancing the potential of quantum computing. We discuss advances in algorithms, both near- and longer-term, and the results of our explorations on current hardware and with simulations. This work also includes physics-inspired classical algorithms that can be used at application scale today.
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• Abstract: Quantum computing is one of the most enticing computational paradigms with the potential to revolutionize diverse areas of future-generation computational systems. While quantum computing hardware has advanced rapidly, from tiny laboratory experiments to quantum chips that can outperform even the largest supercomputers on specialized computational tasks, these noisy-intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) processors are still too small and non-robust to be directly useful for any real-world applications. In this paper, we describe NASA's work in assessing and advancing the potential of quantum computing. We discuss advances in algorithms, both near- and longer-term, and the results of our explorations on current hardware as well as with simulations, including illustrating the benefits of algorithm-hardware co-design in the NISQ era. This work also includes physics-inspired classical algorithms that can be used at application scale today. We discuss innovative tools supporting the assessment and advancement of quantum computing and describe improved methods for simulating quantum systems of various types on high-performance computing systems that incorporate realistic error models. We provide an overview of recent methods for benchmarking, evaluating, and characterizing quantum hardware for error mitigation, as well as insights into fundamental quantum physics that can be harnessed for computational purposes.

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