Gambetta, Jay
Date: Thu, Oct. 18, 2018
Time: 16:45
Place: ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HPV G5
Host: Lidia del Rio
18:00 Alumni Lounge - IBM Informal Careers session
Quantum computation with noisy, intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) processors
Jay Gambetta
IBM Fellow & CTO for Quantum Computing, USA
The development of noisy, intermediate-scale quantum computers has raised the possibility of addressing problems that are intractable with classical computation. In this talk, I shall present a brief overview of superconducting qubit technology at IBM, and our experimental implementations of variational algorithms on these systems tackling problems in quantum simulation. I shall then introduce an error mitigation technique to obtain zero-noise estimates of expectation values, that requires no additional quantum resources, and is therefore readily accessible to NISQ hardware. I will finish with a discussion of how you can start programing these devices yourself with an introduction to Qiskit.
CV: Jay Gambetta is a fellow at IBM, where he has contributed to the work on quantum validation techniques, quantum codes, improved gates and coherence, near-term applications of quantum computing, the IBM Quantum Experience, and the Qiskit open source framework and leads IBM’s quantum theory, software, and applications group. Previously, he worked at the Institute for Quantum Computing in Canada and was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University. A quantum information scientist researching in the field of quantum information and computation, Jay has over 100 publications with more than 12,000 citations in the field of quantum information science. In 2014, he was named a fellow of the American Physical Society, nominated by the topical Group of Quantum Information. He holds a PhD in physics from Griffith University Australia.
18:00 Alumni Lounge - IBM Informal Careers session: Researchers and students are encouraged to come chat with us about career opportunities at IBM Research, in quantum computing and beyond. If the weather is good we will take some of the tables outside, otherwise you can find us indoors.