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Upcoming and prior talks of our seminar series are listed below. Contact: balint.koczor@materials.ox.ac.uk
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 2 February 2024 | Gábor Csányi | Machine learning force fields for materials and molecules |
| 26 January 2024 | Volker Deringer | Data-driven interatomic potentials for materials simulations |
| 17 November 2023 | Andrew Zhao | Group-theoretic error mitigation enabled by classical shadows and symmetries [link] |
| 3 November 2023 | Hans Chan | Cloud access for quantum hardware |
| 27 October 2023 | Matt Goh | Lie-algebraic classical simulations for variational quantum computing [link] |
| 6 October 2023 | Cica Gustiani | The Virtual Quantum Device (VQD): A tool for detailed emulation of quantum computers [link] |
| 20 July 2023 | Zhenhuan Liu | Advancing Quantum Operations: Hermitian-Preserving Map Exponentiation for Non-Physical Quantum Maps |
| 12 June 2023 | Toby Cubitt | Dissipative ground state preparation and the Dissipative Quantum Eigensolver [link] |
| 14 Apr 2023 | Lucas Berent | Decoding Quantum Low-Density Parity-Check Codes |
| 6 Apr 2023 | Armands Strikis | Quantum LDPC Codes for Modular Architectures [link] |
| 3 Mar 2023 | Richard Meister | Resource-frugal Hamiltonian eigenstate preparation via repeated quantum phase estimation measurements [link] |
| 24 Feb 2023 | Michael Beverland | Assessing requirements to scale to practical quantum advantage[link] |
| 10 Feb 2023 | Hans Chan | Algorithmic Shadow Spectroscopy [link] |
| 18 Nov 2022 | Cica Gustiani | Exploiting subspace constraints and ab initio variational methods for quantum chemistry[link] |
| 18 Nov 2022 | Richard Meister | Exploring ab initio machine synthesis of quantum circuits [link] |
| 24 June 2022 | Ninnat Dangniam | Fermion Sampling [link] |
| 17 June 2022 | Hamza Jnane | Multicore quantum computing [link] |
| 3 June 2022 | Hans Chan | Grid-based methods for chemistry simulations on a quantum computer [link] |
| 13 May 2022 | Gregory Boyd | Training variational quantum circuits with CoVaR: covariance root finding with classical shadows [link] |
| 6 May 2022 | Arthur Rattew | Preparing Arbitrary Continuous Functions in Quantum Registers With Logarithmic Complexity [link] |
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20-11-2019
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QTechTheory welcomes its newest member Bálint Koczor, joining as a postdoctoral researcher! Bálint is supported both the EU Flagship project
29-05-2019
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06-02-2019
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18-04-2018
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23-02-2018
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23-02-2018
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11-01-2018
We've brought over the news posts from qunat.org - the previous home of the research group. You can read these posts
13-12-2017
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13-08-2014
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21-07-2014
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29-10-2013
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17-06-2013
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23-05-2013
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23-05-2013
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12-04-2013
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20-01-2012
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We've uploaded a short Mathematica notebook which allows one to generate and play with the unitary matrices generated by short,
22-08-2018
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19-07-2018
We've added a guide on using the GNU Scientific library - a powerful C/C++ numerical methods library - on OSX
13-04-2018
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12-03-2018
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23-02-2018
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30-01-2018
We've begun compiling a list of useful SLURM commands, which you can view here.
08-01-2018
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07-01-2018
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18-12-2017
Quantum LDPC Codes for Modular Architectures
Posted 2022-11-10
A Quantum Variational Root Finding Method Exploiting Classical Shadows
Posted 2022-05-04
Quantum computing is scalable on a planar array of qubits with fabrication defects
Posted 2021-12-07
Exponential Error Suppression
Posted 2021-07-27
QuESTlink Demo Library of Quantum Algorithms
Posted 2021-04-16
Measurement cost of metric-aware variational quantum algorithms
Posted 2020-06-15
Quantum natural gradient generalised to non-unitary circuits
Posted 2020-06-15
A concatenated error correction code for asymmetric noise
Posted 2019-11-20
Variational-State Quantum Metrology
Posted 2019-09-25
Bálint Koczor joins the group!
Posted 2019-05-29
Variational quantum simulation of general processes
Posted 2019-02-13
Hybrid theory
Posted 2019-02-07
Good vibrations
Posted 2019-02-06
Quantum computational chemistry
Posted 2019-02-06
Compiling quantum programs, approximately
Posted 2018-11-09
Gate algebra in Mathematica
Posted 2018-08-22
Mitigating algorithmic errors in Hamiltonian simulation
Posted 2018-08-15
Variational eigensolver code now available
Posted 2018-07-19
Twirling
Posted 2018-07-16
Discovering energy spectra
Posted 2018-06-18
Simon speaks on Y Combinator
Posted 2018-06-01
Imaginary time on a quantum computer
Posted 2018-04-18
Using GSL on OSX and linux supercomputers
Posted 2018-04-13
Accessing supercomputers with OSX
Posted 2018-03-12
Error mitigation techniques for short depth circuits
Posted 2018-02-23
A lightning fast quantum computer simulator
Posted 2018-02-23
Installing ProjectQ on supercomputers
Posted 2018-01-30
How can we cope with noisy quantum computers?
Posted 2018-01-11
Useful SLURM commands
Posted 2018-01-08
Sweep parameters in SLURM via python
Posted 2018-01-07
Output from C and Python to Mathematica
Posted 2017-12-18
Linux Memory Profilers in C and Python
Posted 2017-12-18
QuNaT ported
Posted 2017-12-13
Use small modules? OK, but how small?
Posted 2016-04-16
Quantum annealing
Posted 2016-03-30
Quantum Learning with Nokia & Lockheed Martin
Posted 2014-08-13
Ultimate network?
Posted 2014-07-21
Going 100% open!
Posted 2014-07-21
Oxford Quantum site
Posted 2013-10-29
Where quantum meets the rest of the world
Posted 2013-06-17
More Bird Brains
Posted 2013-05-23
A thousand fragments
Posted 2013-05-23
Weak measurements don’t defeat noise
Posted 2013-05-23
Quantum communication
Posted 2013-05-23
Dark spin chain
Posted 2013-05-23
Open Science conference
Posted 2013-05-23
Birds ‘see’ magnetism?
Posted 2013-04-12
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