Variational Quantum Factoring: Open Source Research Project
Dear Nanosai friends,
We are delighted to invite you to the first of our co-parent company’s (Zaiku Group) free webinar series on quantum computing and related topics. To register please visit the following Crowdcast link:
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/variational-quantum-factoring/register
About the Speaker: Michal Stechly has background in physics, machine learning and broadly defined engineering. Professionally, he has merged these skills to bridge the gap between research and software engineering. His main interests in quantum computing are variational algorithms, optimization and near-term applications.
He works as a Quantum Software Engineer at the Toronto office of Zapata Computing and is a core team member of Quantum Open Source Foundation and Q4Climate initiative. He also is an author of a blog Musty Thoughts, where he shares his knowledge and experience about QC.
Abstract: One of the most well-known algorithms in quantum computing is Shor's algorithm, which performs factoring of integers. However, recently another method for achieving this task with near term quantum devices (NISQ) has been proposed – Variational Quantum Factoring (VQF). I've implemented this algorithm and reproduced the results presented in the original paper. In this presentation I'd like to talk about the algorithm itself, developing open-source projects in QC and the research I did.
Basic familiarity with what Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is would be helpful.
Would you like to be a speaker in our upcoming distributed systems webinar series?
Please get in touch https://zaikugroup.com/contact-us.
Many thanks,
Zaiku Group team