Insights from the Quantum Era - December 2022

Here are a few scientific papers that caught our eye:

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Quantum advantage and stability to errors in analogue quantum simulators

This work considers the use of noisy analogue quantum simulators for computing physically relevant properties of many-body systems both in equilibrium and undergoing dynamics. It caught our attention because many articles considering robustness have to do with gate-based systems, whereas this one covers analog simulators.

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Assessing requirements to scale to practical quantum advantage

Presents a framework for quantum resource estimation, abstracting the layers of the stack, to estimate resources required across these layers for large-scale quantum applications. It is significant because it allows users to estimate how large of a computer would they need to execute a desired algorithm.

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Optical tweezers throw and catch single atoms

This article proposes and experimentally demonstrates freely-flying atoms that are not guided but are instead thrown and caught by optical tweezers. Since QuEra's computer uses optical tweezers to move atoms around, we were curious to see the 'throw and catch' experiments in this article.

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Prolegomena to a hybrid Classical/Rydberg simulator for hadronization (QuPYTH)

This work presents the classically simulated integration of a hadronization model, based on a two-leg ladder configuration of neutral Rydberg atoms, with the PYTHIA event generator. If you are a PYTHIA user for high-energy physics, you might find this interesting.

Read on ArXiv

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