The object of the final project is to find a recent research article (past year or so) related to the course material, read it carefully, and write a brief (max 1-2 page, or as little as a couple paragraphs) summary of its results, including some indication of how accessible it was (notation, concepts, etc.) based on material covered during the semester.
The object is to determine whether you can read and understand a topical
research article at least at the 33-50% level, though it might have been
incomprehensible at the start of the semester.
[University guidelines, "Due dates for final projects, papers and take home exams are based on class meeting time. Calculate your due date using the chart below",
give this class, with start time between 2:00-2:59PM, a min due date of <Thu, 8-Dec-2016 4:30PM>
.]
Sample arXiv searches (try them!):
Cnot,
qubit,
GHZ,
quantum
comput*,
teleportation,
... , turn up things such as the list below, but
feel free especially to survey references therein, or any other resource.
I had planned plan to winnow a list of suggestions
from the roughly 1000
from past two years with comput* or qubit in title (again, have a look), on the basis of "newsworthiness", in this case meaning that most have received some descriptive link from news or blogspace (follow the "blog link" near the bottom of the right margin).
But I found too many, and instead will list a very small representative sample that received large numbers of readers, and invite you to suggest more.
Some of the more recent ones have also been mentioned in the latest annual
Conference on Quantum Information Processing (2016), (program for QIP2017 now up).
There is another interesting set of references in the
Quantum Algorithm Zoo.
This list is not be meant to be either definitive or truly representative,
just a sample —
feel free to suggest other possibilities. It is nonetheless an informative part of this assignment to read as many of the abstracts linked below as you can, to get a flavor for the cutting research edge in this field.
[Below this first list is a second shorter list of articles that also turned up, not appropriate for project due to being reviews or slightly off the topic of the course, but may still be very useful to many of you.]
- 1611.06999:
"An Efficient Quantum Algorithm for a Variant of the Closest Lattice-Vector Problem",
Lior Eldar and Peter W. Shor
- 1611.06985:
"A Cosmic Bell Test with Measurement Settings from Astronomical Sources",
Johannes Handsteiner, Andrew S. Friedman, Dominik Rauch, Jason Gallicchio, Bo Liu, Hannes Hosp, Johannes Kofler, David Bricher, Matthias Fink, Calvin Leung, Anthony Mark, Hien T. Nguyen, Isabella Sanders, Fabian Steinlechner, Rupert Ursin, Sören Wengerowsky, Alan H. Guth, David I. Kaiser, Thomas Scheidl, and Anton Zeilinger
- 1611.04604:
"Event-ready Bell-test using entangled atoms simultaneously closing detection and locality loopholes",
Wenjamin Rosenfeld, Daniel Burchardt, Robert Garthoff, Kai Redeker, Norbert Ortegel, Markus Rau, Harald Weinfurter
- 1609.09047:
"Quantum Tokens for Digital Signatures",
Shalev Ben David, Or Sattath
- 1608.05147:
"Single-Photon Switching and Entanglement of Solid-State Qubits in an Integrated Nanophotonic System",
Alp Sipahigil, Ruffin E. Evans, Denis D. Sukachev, Michael J. Burek, Johannes Borregaard, Mihir K. Bhaskar, Christian T. Nguyen, Jose L. Pacheco, Haig A. Atikian, Charles Meuwly, Ryan M. Camacho, Fedor Jelezko, Edward Bielejec, Hongkun Park, Marko Lončar, Mikhail D. Lukin
- 1608.03511:
"Quantum-limited measurements of optical signals from a geostationary satellite",
Kevin Günthner, Imran Khan, Dominique Elser, Birgit Stiller, Ömer Bayraktar, Christian R. Müller, Karen Saucke, Daniel Tröndle, Frank Heine, Stefan Seel, Peter Greulich, Herwig Zech, Björn Gütlich, Ines Richter, Michael Lutzer, Sabine Philipp-May, Rolf Meyer, Christoph Marquardt, Gerd Leuchs
- 1608.03355:
"A Practical Quantum Instruction Set Architecture",
Robert S. Smith, Michael J. Curtis, William J. Zeng
- 1608.00263:
"Characterizing Quantum Supremacy in Near-Term Devices",
Sergio Boixo, Sergei V. Isakov, Vadim N. Smelyanskiy, Ryan Babbush, Nan Ding, Zhang Jiang, John M. Martinis and Hartmut Neven
- 1607.07887:
"QuDot Nets: Quantum Computers and Bayesian Networks",
Perry Sakkaris
- 1606.09225:
"Quintuple: a Python 5-qubit quantum computer simulator to facilitate cloud quantum computing",
Christine Corbett Moran
- 1606.06821:
"Measurement device independent quantum key distribution over 404 km optical fibre",
Hua-Lei Yin, Teng-Yun Chen, Zong-Wen Yu, Hui Liu, Li-Xing You, Yi-Heng Zhou, Si-Jing Chen, Yingqiu Mao, Ming-Qi Huang, Wei-Jun Zhang, Hao Chen, Ming Jun Li, Daniel Nolan, Fei Zhou, Xiao Jiang, Zhen Wang, Qiang Zhang, Xiang-Bin Wang, Jian-Wei Pan
- 1606.02734:
"Universal Quantum Emulator",
Iman Marvian and Seth Lloyd
- 1605.08814:
"Quantum teleportation across a metropolitan fibre network",
Raju Valivarthi, Marcel.li Grimau Puigibert, Qiang Zhou, Gabriel H. Aguilar, Varun B. Verma, Francesco Marsili, Matthew D. Shaw, Sae Woo Nam, Daniel Oblak, Wolfgang Tittel
- 1605.08547:
"Experimental ten-photon entanglement",
Xi-Lin Wang, Luo-Kan Chen, Wei Li, He-Liang Huang, Chang Liu, Chao Chen, Yi-Han Luo, Zu-En Su, Dian Wu, Zheng-Da Li, He Lu, Yi Hu, Xiao Jiang, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Li Li, Nai-Le Liu, Yu-Ao Chen, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan
- 1605.06556:
"A Quantum Enigma Machine: Experimentally Demonstrating Quantum Data Locking",
Daniel J. Lum, M. S. Allman, Thomas Gerrits, Cosmo Lupo, Varun B. Verma, Seth Lloyd, Sae Woo Nam and John C. Howell
- 1605.05261:
"A photon-photon quantum gate based on a single atom in an optical resonator",
Bastian Hacker, Stephan Welte, Gerhard Rempe, Stephan Ritter
- 1605.04570:
"Real-time dynamics of lattice gauge theories with a few-qubit quantum computer",
E. A. Martinez, C. A. Muschik, P. Schindler, D. Nigg, A. Erhard, M. Heyl, P. Hauke, M. Dalmonte, T. Monz, P. Zoller, R. Blatt
- 1605.04220:
"Experimental test of Mermin inequalities on a 5-qubit quantum computer",
Daniel Alsina, José Ignacio Latorre
- 1605.03590:
"Elucidating Reaction Mechanisms on Quantum Computers",
Markus Reiher, Nathan Wiebe, Krysta M Svore, Dave Wecker, Matthias Troyer
- 1605.03266:
"A Quantum Approach to the Unique Sink Orientation Problem",
Dave Bacon
- 1605.01351:
"Demonstration of weight-four parity measurements in the surface code architecture",
Maika Takita, A. D. Córcoles, Easwar Magesan, Baleegh Abdo, Markus Brink, Andrew Cross, Jerry M. Chow, Jay M. Gambetta
- 1604.05796:
"Prime factorization using quantum annealing and computational algebraic geometry",
Raouf Dridi and Hedayat Alghassi
- 1604.04453:
"Experimental quantum forgery of quantum optical money",
Karol Bartkiewicz, Antonín Černoch, Grzegorz Chimczak, Karel Lemr, Adam Miranowicz, Franco Nori
- 1604.01383:
"Quantum Bitcoin: An Anonymous and Distributed Currency Secured by the No-Cloning Theorem of Quantum Mechanics",
Jonathan Jogenfors
- 1603.08675:
"Quantum Recommendation Systems",
Iordanis Kerenidis and Anupam Prakash
- 1603.08254:
"Nonlocality from local contextuality",
Bi-Heng Liu, Xiao-Min Hu, Jiang-Shan Chen, Yun-Feng Huang, Yong-Jian Han, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo, Adán Cabello
- 1603.06659:
"Generation and analysis of correlated pairs of photons on board a nanosatellite",
Zhongkan Tang, Rakhitha Chandrasekara, Yue Chuan Tan, Cliff Cheng, Luo Sha, Goh Cher Hiang, Daniel Oi and Alexander Ling
- 1603.04512:
"Demonstration of a small programmable quantum computer with atomic qubits",
S. Debnath, N. M. Linke, C. Figgatt, K. A. Landsman, K. Wright, and C. Monroe
- 1603.04127:
"Scalable boson sampling with a single-photon device",
Yu He, Zu-En Su, He-Liang Huang, Xing Ding, Jian Qin, Can Wang, S. Unsleber, Chao Chen, Hui Wang, Yu-Ming He, Xi-Lin Wang, Christian Schneider, Martin Kamp, Sven Höfling, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan
- 1602.07674:
"Quantum Supremacy through the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm",
Edward Farhi and Aram W Harrow
- 1602.05973:
"Breaking Symmetric Cryptosystems using Quantum Period Finding",
Marc Kaplan, Gaëtan Leurent, Anthony Leverrier, María Naya-Plasencia
- 1602.05924:
"On the uncomputability of the spectral gap",
Seth Lloyd
- 1602.04768:
"Demonstrating Quantum Error Correction that Extends the Lifetime of Quantum Information",
Nissim Ofek, Andrei Petrenko, Reinier Heeres, Philip Reinhold, Zaki Leghtas, Brian Vlastakis, Yehan Liu, Luigi Frunzio, S. M. Girvin, Liang Jiang, Mazyar Mirrahimi, M. H. Devoret, R. J. Schoelkopf
- 1602.02840:
"Co-Designing a Scalable Quantum Computer with Trapped Atomic Ions",
K. R. Brown, J. Kim, and C. Monroe
- 1602.00008:
"New class of quantum error-correcting codes for a bosonic mode",
Marios H. Michael, Matti Silveri, R. T. Brierley, Victor V. Albert, Juha Salmilehto, Liang Jiang, S. M. Girvin
- 1601.07601:
"Improved classical simulation of quantum circuits dominated by Clifford gates",
Sergey Bravyi, David Gosset
- 1601.07195:
"qHiPSTER: The Quantum High Performance Software Testing Environment",
Mikhail Smelyanskiy, Nicolas P. D. Sawaya, Alán Aspuru-Guzik
- 1601.05505:
"A Schrodinger Cat Living in Two Boxes",
Chen Wang, Yvonne Y. Gao, Philip Reinhold, R. W. Heeres, Nissim Ofek, Kevin Chou, Christopher Axline, Matthew Reagor, Jacob Blumoff, K. M. Sliwa, L. Frunzio, S. M. Girvin, Liang Jiang, M. Mirrahimi, M. H. Devoret and R. J. Schoelkopf
- 1601.03728:
"A strict experimental test of macroscopic realism in a superconducting flux qubit",
George C. Knee, Kosuke Kakuyanagi, Mao-Chuang Yeh, Yuichiro Matsuzaki, Hiraku Toida, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Shiro Saito, Anthony J. Leggett, and William J. Munro
- 1601.03030:
"Simulated Quantum Annealing Can Be Exponentially Faster than Classical Simulated Annealing",
Elizabeth Crosson, Aram W. Harrow
- 1601.02943:
"Experimental Test of Entangled Histories",
Jordan Cotler, Lu-Ming Duan, Pan-Yu Hou, Frank Wilczek, Da Xu, Zhang-Qi Yin, Chong Zu
- 1601.02036:
"Quantum Boltzmann Machine",
Mohammad H. Amin, Evgeny Andriyash, Jason Rolfe, Bohdan Kulchytskyy, Roger Melko
- 1601.00966:
"Capacities of repeater-assisted quantum communications",
Stefano Pirandola
- 1512.06860:
"Scalable Quantum Simulation of Molecular Energies",
P. J. J. O'Malley, R. Babbush, I. D. Kivlichan, J. Romero, J. R. McClean, R. Barends, J. Kelly, P. Roushan, A. Tranter, N. Ding, B. Campbell, Y. Chen, Z. Chen, B. Chiaro, A. Dunsworth, A. G. Fowler, E. Jeffrey, A. Megrant, J. Y. Mutus, C. Neill, C. Quintana, D. Sank, A. Vainsencher, J. Wenner, T. C. White, P. V. Coveney, P. J. Love, H. Neven, A. Aspuru-Guzik and J. M. Martinis
- 1512.04600:
"High-fidelity quantum logic gates using trapped-ion hyperfine qubits",
C. J. Ballance, T. P. Harty, N. M. Linke, M. A. Sepiol and D. M. Lucas
- 1512.02900:
"Advances in quantum machine learning",
Jeremy Adcock, Euan Allen, Matthew Day, Stefan Frick, Janna Hinchliff, Mack Johnson, Sam Morley-Short, Sam Pallister, Alasdair Price, Stasja Stanisic
- 1512.02206:
"What is the Computational Value of Finite Range Tunneling?",
Vasil S. Denchev and Sergio Boixo and Sergei V. Isakov and Nan Ding and Ryan Babbush and Vadim Smelyanskiy and John Martinis and Hartmut Neven
- 1511.03316:
"Digitized adiabatic quantum computing with a superconducting circuit",
R. Barends, A. Shabani, L. Lamata, J. Kelly, A. Mezzacapo, U. Las Heras, R. Babbush, A. G. Fowler, B. Campbell, Yu Chen, Z. Chen, B. Chiaro, A. Dunsworth, E. Jeffrey, E. Lucero, A. Megrant, J. Y. Mutus, M. Neeley, C. Neill, P. J. J. O'Malley, C. Quintana, P. Roushan, D. Sank, A. Vainsencher, J. Wenner, T. C. White, E. Solano, H. Neven, John M. Martinis
- 1510.08863:
"Fundamental Limits of Repeaterless Quantum Communications",
Stefano Pirandola, Riccardo Laurenza, Carlo Ottaviani, Leonardo Banchi
- 1510.06356:
"Application of Quantum Annealing to Training of Deep Neural Networks",
Steven H. Adachi and Maxwell P. Henderson
- 1510.03859:
"Hybrid quantum-classical approach to correlated materials",
Bela Bauer, Dave Wecker, Andrew J. Millis, Matthew B. Hastings, M. Troyer
- 1509.06217:
"Demonstration of local teleportation using classical entanglement",
Diego Guzman-Silva, Robert Brüning, Felix Zimmermann, Christian Vetter, Markus Gräfe, Matthias Heinrich, Stefan Nolte, Michael Duparré, Andrea Aiello, Marco Ornigotti and Alexander Szameit
- 1509.03763:
"Quantum superposition, entanglement, and state teleportation of a microorganism on an electromechanical oscillator",
Tongcang Li, Zhang-Qi Yin
- 1509.02815:
"Characterizing a Four-Qubit Planar Lattice for Arbitrary Error Detection",
Jerry M. Chow, Srikanth J. Srinivasan, Easwar Magesan, A D. Corcoles, David W. Abraham, Jay M. Gambetta, Matthias Steffen
- 1509.02749:
"Automated Search for new Quantum Experiments",
Mario Krenn, Mehul Malik, Robert Fickler, Radek Lapkiewicz, Anton Zeilinger
- 1508.06299:
"The Flux Qubit Revisited to Enhance Coherence and Reproducibility",
F. Yan, S. Gustavsson, A. Kamal, J. Birenbaum, A.P. Sears, D. Hover, D. Rosenberg, G. Samach, T.J. Gudmundsen, J.L. Yoder, T.P. Orlando, J. Clarke, A.J. Kerman and W.D. Oliver
- 1507.08852:
"Realization of a scalable Shor algorithm",
Thomas Monz, Daniel Nigg, Esteban A. Martinez, Matthias F. Brandl, Philipp Schindler, Richard Rines, Shannon X. Wang, Isaac L. Chuang, Rainer Blatt
Here is the above-mentioned second list of articles that also turned up as "popular" -- though not appropriate for project due to being reviews or slightly off the topic of the course, some may be useful above and beyond the course:
- 1611.04471:
"Adiabatic Quantum Computing",
Tameem Albash, Daniel A. Lidar
- 1610.06980:
"The IBM Quantum Computer and the IBM Quantum Experience",
Alan C. Santos
- 1610.02208:
"Quantum information processing with superconducting circuits: a review",
G. Wendin
- 1609.06628:
"Programming quantum computers using 3-D puzzles, coffee cups, and doughnuts",
Simon J. Devitt
- 1609.02439:
"Quantum Coherence as a Resource",
Alexander Streltsov, Gerardo Adesso, Martin B. Plenio
- 1608.05322:
"Bringing quantum mechanics to life: from Schrödinger's cat to Schrödinger's microbe",
Zhang-qi Yin, Tongcang Li
- 1607.08535:
"Why I am optimistic about the silicon-photonic route to quantum computing",
Terry Rudolph
- 1607.05256:
"The Complexity of Quantum States and Transformations: From Quantum Money to Black Holes",
Scott Aaronson
- 1607.02398:
"A quantum teleportation experiment for undergraduate students",
Sergueï Fedortchenko
- 1605.05709:
"Performing Quantum Computing Experiments in the Cloud",
Simon J. Devitt
- 1605.00806:
"Measures and applications of quantum correlations",
Gerardo Adesso, Thomas R. Bromley, Marco Cianciaruso
- 1605.00383:
"Quantum Simulation with Interacting Photons",
Michael J. Hartmann
- 1604.07450:
"Quantum Shannon Theory",
John Preskill
- 1604.03304:
"Quantum Random Number Generators",
Miguel Herrero-Collantes, Juan Carlos Garcia-Escartin
- 1604.01790:
"The Mathematics of Entanglement",
Fernando G.S.L. Brandao and Matthias Christandl and Aram W. Harrow and Michael Walter
- 1603.04751:
"Quantum Go",
André Ranchin
- 1602.01907:
"What does it take to see entanglement?",
Valentina Caprara Vivoli, Pavel Sekatski, and Nicolas Sangouard
- 1512.07617:
"Notes on Adiabatic Quantum Computers",
Boaz Tamir and Eliahu Cohen
- 1511.04206:
"Quantum algorithms: an overview",
Ashley Montanaro
- 1501.00011:
"Why now is the right time to study quantum computing",
Aram W. Harrow