QSI-IS Special Colloquium: Yipeng Huang (Rutgers)
Host: Lei Zhang
TITLE: From reconfigurable code-efficient ansatzes toward useful quantum computing
ABSTRACT: The full impact of quantum computing (QC) will depend on quantum error-correcting codes (QECCs). This talk explores whether useful QC might be ushered in without waiting for the arbitrarily low logical error rates enabled by integrating millions of physical qubits. Instead, a universal set of quantum operations might be enabled by cleverly switching among a wide family of QECCs, some codes that provide precise rotations, while others provide parallel operations. Based on this idea, I present recent work on scheduling hardware operations for such a scheme and discuss how it may affect QC applications in Hamiltonian simulation. The exploration sheds light on the question: How far away is useful QC?
BIO: Yipeng is an assistant professor of computer science at Rutgers University. His teaching and research are in quantum computer architecture. He is interested in QC applications in simulation and communication, approaches to fault-tolerant QC using reconfigurable codes and high-dimensional states, and more broadly, unconventional accelerator architectures.