9–13 Jul 2018
Sofia, Bulgaria
Europe/Sofia timezone

Quantum Associative Memory in HEP Track Pattern Recognition

10 Jul 2018, 15:45
15m
Hall 3.1 (National Palace of Culture)

Hall 3.1

National Palace of Culture

presentation Track 1 - Online computing T1 - Online computing

Speaker

Illya Shapoval (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Description

We have entered the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Era. A plethora of quantum processor prototypes allow evaluation of potential of the Quantum Computing paradigm in applications to pressing computational problems of the future. Growing data input rates and detector resolution foreseen in High-Energy LHC (2030s) experiments expose the often high time and/or space complexity of classical algorithms. Quantum algorithms can potentially become the lower-complexity alternatives in such cases. In this work we discuss the potential of Quantum Associative Memory (QuAM) in the context of LHC data triggering. We examine the practical limits of storage capacity, as well as store and recall efficiencies, from the viewpoints of state-of-the-art quantum hardware and LHC real-time charged track pattern recognition requirements. We present experimental tests of QuAM on the IBM 5Q chip - a cloud-based 5-qubit superconducting quantum processor. We further compare the results to QuAM simulations on LIQUi|> - the Microsoft’s Quantum Simulator toolsuite - as well as to theoretical expectations of QuAM efficiency bounds. We also review several difficulties integrating the end-to-end quantum pattern recognition into a real-time production workflow, and discuss possible mitigations.

Primary authors

Illya Shapoval (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Paolo Calafiura (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

Presentation materials