Convergence QL: Ideas Lab Workshop: Practical Fully-Connected Quantum Computer Challenge (PFCQC), Santa Fe Institute, August 28 - September 1, 2017

Convergence QL：创意实验室研讨会：实用全连接量子计算机挑战赛 (PFCQC)，圣达菲研究所，2017 年 8 月 28 日至 9 月 1 日

• 批准号: 1744320
• 负责人: Cristopher Moore
• 金额: $ 9.88万
• 依托单位: Santa Fe Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-07-15 至 2018-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1744320&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Convergence; QL; Ideas; Lab; Workshop

The NSF "Ideas Lab: Practical Fully-Connected Quantum Computer Challenge (PFCQC)" described in the NSF solicitation 17-548 will be held at the Santa Fe Institute in Santa Fe, NM, from August 28 to September 1, 2017. Researchers from a broad range of disciplines, including physics, engineering, and computer science, will work together to develop promising new techniques that can address the challenge of developing and operating a practical fully-connected quantum computer. The funds will cover travel and expenses for 28 Ideas Lab participants: 24 invited participants and 4 mentors. These expenditures will be administered by the Santa Fe Institute, NM. Practical quantum computing has the potential to transform cryptography, secure communication, material and drug design, the efficient simulation of physical systems, and our ability to solve a host of optimization problems in science and industry. Current work strongly suggests that quantum computers have moved past the stage analogous to the first transistor; several technologies are now reminiscent of the first integrated circuit, and are showing signs that they can scale up to the point where quantum computers will exceed classical ones in practice. Focusing on and incubating these technologies at this juncture could usher in a new digital revolution. Recent advances in the laboratory are bringing large-scale quantum computing closer to fruition, with several technologies that show promise of scalability. In particular, fully-connected architectures-where one can control interactions between any pair of qubits at will-offer truly programmable quantum computers, as opposed to specialized hardware devices hardwired to solve a fixed type of problem. Programmable quantum devices like these could finally make quantum algorithms a reality, such as Shor's factoring algorithm, Grover's search algorithm, and algorithms for efficiently simulating quantum Hamiltonians relevant to condensed matter physics, high energy physics, materials science, molecular biology, and drug design. Even devices with ~30 qubits could exceed the capabilities of classical computers, as well as providing tests of "quantum supremacy" confirming the theoretical computational power of quantum mechanics.

NSF 征集 17-548 中描述的 NSF“创意实验室：实用全连接量子计算机挑战赛 (PFCQC)”将于 2017 年 8 月 28 日至 9 月 1 日在新墨西哥州圣达菲的圣达菲研究所举行。包括物理学、工程学和计算机科学在内的广泛学科将共同开发有前途的新技术，以应对开发和操作实用的全连接量子计算机的挑战。这些资金将用于支付 28 名创意实验室参与者的旅费和费用：24 名受邀参与者和 4 名导师。这些支出将由新墨西哥州圣达菲研究所管理。实用量子计算有潜力改变密码学、安全通信、材料和药物设计、物理系统的有效模拟以及我们解决科学和工业中大量优化问题的能力。目前的工作强烈表明，量子计算机已经超越了类似于第一个晶体管的阶段；现在有几种技术让人想起第一个集成电路，并且有迹象表明它们可以扩展到量子计算机在实践中超越经典计算机的程度。在这个时候关注和孵化这些技术可能会引发一场新的数字革命。实验室的最新进展使大规模量子计算更接近成果，多项技术显示出可扩展性的前景。特别是，完全连接的架构——人们可以随意控制任意一对量子位之间的交互——提供真正可编程的量子计算机，而不是通过硬连线来解决固定类型问题的专用硬件设备。像这样的可编程量子设备最终可以使量子算法成为现实，例如肖尔的因式分解算法、格罗弗的搜索算法以及有效模拟与凝聚态物理、高能物理、材料科学、分子生物学和药物设计相关的量子哈密顿量的算法。即使具有约 30 个量子位的设备也可能超越经典计算机的能力，并提供“量子霸权”测试，证实量子力学的理论计算能力。