Instructor’s guide

Notes from workshop on June 8-9, 2022

Agenda

June 9

Time

Topic

Tutor

09:00-10:00

The HPC-QC landscape. How does QC differ from classical HPC?

Göran Wendin

10:00-11:00

Quantum states, qubits, logic gates and quantum algorithms

Anton Frisk Kockum

11:00-12:00

Overview of different QC hardware approaches

Göran Wendin

12:00-13:00

Lunch

13:00-16:00

Hands-on session: Introduction to high-level languages for QC. Qiskit and Cirq. 1q and 2q gates: 1q rotations, Bell inequalities, teleportation

Dirk Oliver Theis, Veiko Palge

June 9

Time

Topic

Tutor

09:00-10:00

Overview of the software stack, QC-libraries for common tasks to circuit level assembly

Miroslav Dobsicek, Dirk Oliver Theis

10:00-11:00

The hybrid HPC-QC approach. Error mitigation techniques

Sven Karlsson, Mikael Johansson, Göran Wendin, Franz Fuchs

11:00-12:00

Hybrid classical/quantum algorithms, optimisation and variational methods

Veiko Palge, Ville Kotovirta

12:00-13:00

Lunch

13:00-16:00

Hands-on session, QC programming using simulators and real QC hardware for use cases for quantum chemistry, optimisation and finance, and quantum software testing

Shaukat Ali, Sven Karlsson, Xinyi Wang