QC4HEP Working Group Annual Meeting

Contribution List

1. Welcome

Dr Sofia Vallecorsa (CERN)

24/01/2025, 09:00

2. State-of-the-art of the field (HEP)

Dr Andrea Delgado (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Ivano Tavernelli (IBM Research - Zurich), Stefan Kuehn

24/01/2025, 09:05

15’+15’ State-of-the-art of the field (HEP) – Names: Delgado, Kuhn

4. Highlights 1 TH

Enrique Rico Ortega (CERN)

24/01/2025, 09:35

5. Highlights 2 TH

Joe Gibbs

24/01/2025, 09:40

6. Highlights 3 TH

Julian Schuhmacher

24/01/2025, 09:45

7. Highlights 4 TH

Oriel Orphee Moira Kiss (CERN)

24/01/2025, 09:50

8. Q&A TH

24/01/2025, 09:55

9. Highlights 1 EXP

Miriam Lucio Martinez (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

24/01/2025, 10:05

10. Highlights 2 EXP

Cenk Tüysüz (DESY)

24/01/2025, 10:10

11. Highlights 3 EXP

Vincent Alexander Croft (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

24/01/2025, 10:15

12. Highlights 4 EXP

Yacine Haddad (Northeastern University (US))

24/01/2025, 10:20

13. Q&A EXP

24/01/2025, 10:25

3. State-of-the-art of the HW and integration with HPC, Quantum Sensing

Enrico Rinaldi (Quantinuum K. K.), Ivano Tavernelli (IBM Research - Zurich)

24/01/2025, 10:35

IBM: Ivano Tavernelli, and Francesco Tacchino
other platforms: Enrico Rinaldi
STFC: Stefano Mensa (5 min)
Sensing: Michael Doser.

14. Discussions with moderators

24/01/2025, 11:15

Theory: Stefan Kühn, Jad Halimeh, Denis Lacroix, Enrico Rico Ortega.
Experiments: Sofia Vallecorsa, Michele Grossi, Andrea Delgado.
Topic: what are the challenges and how to overcome them in the next years

17. Parallel sessions: Experiments

24/01/2025, 14:00

o Parallelization of quantum classical workflow (chairperson: Andrea Delgado and Vincent Pascuzzi)
o (Large) data encoding and compression schemes (such as PCA) that can keep quantum correlation (chairperson: Miriam Martinez)
o Quantum Monte Carlo generators (chairperson: Vincent Pascuzzi)
o QAOA (chairperson: Andrea Delgado)
o QML ((chairperson: Koji Terashi)
o Quantum generative models...

16. Parallel sessions: Theory

24/01/2025, 14:00

o Optimization: static calculations (phase transition) (chairperson: Pietro Silvi)
Topic: Beyond VQE(?); Martin’s “scaling” ansatz; Quantum subspace expansion (Julian Schuhmacher and Anthony Gandon)
o Dynamics (chairperson: Stefan Kühn and Jad Halimeh)
Topic: Scattering: how large can we scale? Can we reach utility scale?
o What else than Trotter? QDRIFT inspired ansatz, (chairperson:...

15. General assembly (all together)

24/01/2025, 17:00

• Organization: future virtual and in-person meetings (chairperson: SteerCo)
• Identify needs (enablement required, …)
• Conduct guidelines (enrolment process, publication policy …) (chairperson: Ivano)
• Summary of the discussions and outlook (chairperson: SteerCo)
• Need for an enabling session (?) (virtual, for IBM machines)

18. Quantum Sensing

Michael Doser (CERN)