A tale of symplectic products: quantum error-correcting codes and simulation reductions
ECE Seminar Series
October 4, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
A tale of symplectic products: quantum error-correcting codes and simulation reductions
Speaker: Lane Gunderman, UIC
Abstract: With various quantum companies making bold roadmaps for their devices, learn about one of the most essential steps these companies must make now: protecting quantum information and making more out of what qubits they have. Gunderman will provide a brief introduction to quantum error-correcting codes, and will discuss a pair of results which can help with quantum information protection: 1) a method to modify known qecc to more closely match the native structure of a device’s “qubits”, and 2) a method for greatly reducing the amount of non-trivial action that is needed to extract information to correct errors. Gunderman will also discuss a method for reducing qubit requirements for more near-term simulation algorithms on quantum computers, which, surprisingly, has its roots in non-standard qecc methods. This permits up to a halving of the number of qubits required for a simulation and can even aid classical simulation of quantum systems.
Speaker bio: Lane Gunderman earned his BS in 2017 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in physics and math. He earned his MS and PhD from the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) in physics, where he worked on theory related to quantum error-correcting codes and hybrid quantum devices. Gunderman worked at Xanadu Quantum Technology as a quantum error-correction researcher, and at HRL Laboratories as a research scientist before joining UIC's ECE department this Fall. Gunderman is originally from Chicagoland.
Date posted
Oct 1, 2024
Date updated
Oct 4, 2024