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We’ve awarded microgrants to over 72 teams across 23 countries, resulting in 17+ completed or planned publications, welcoming 13 people into the field, and helping to form 2 new startups and 1 new non-profit.

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Grants Made

2023 Grants

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    To Son Pham and Tien Nguyen to develop QuTritium, a Python package that helps automate the calibration process and extends the functionality of the Qiskit package in a qutrit system.

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    To Hanrui Wang to further develop TorchQuantum, a Quantum classical simulation framework based on PyTorch.

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    To Abdullah Khalid to further develop stac, a circuit library optimized for building fault-tolerant circuits for stabilizer codes.

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    To Abuzer Yakaryilmaz to foster QWorld's activites, including QScience Days and QCourses.

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    To Miriam Büttner, Sunayana Dutta, Paolo Molignini, Rui Lin, Camille Lévêque, Axel Lode to organize a software developer workshop for the numerical simulation of ultracold quantum many-body systems (MCTDH-X.

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    To Eduardo Maschio to develop H-Hat, a quantum programming language made for developers.

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    To Matt Lourens, to further develop HierarQcal, a tool to simplify the generation of custom quantum circuits for neural architecture search.

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    To Pengyuan (Bill) Zhai and Susanne Yelin to develop NFNet, a non-interacting fermion simulation network for large-scale quantum systems. [arXiv]

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    To Alejandro Montanez-Barrera to simplify benchmarking of optimization problems in OpenQAOA. [arXiv]

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    To Shinichi Sunami and Masato Fukushima to develop Graphix, an open-source library to optimize and simulate measurement-based quantum computing.

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    To Harshit Gupta to fruther develop a timeline debugger for the Qiskit transpiler.

2022 Grants

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    To Lev Stambler to write a highly performant decoder in Rust for quantum error correction.

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    To Stefanie Muroya Lei and Christoph Kirsch, to develop develop QUARC within the Unicorn framework, a bounded model checking that verifies classical programs using the best classical and quantum algorithms.

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    To Omid Khosravani to develop adaptive quantum process tomography techniques through the use of reinforcement learning.

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    To Kaitlin Gili to conduct an outreach project called Iteration One, sparking curiosity among U.S. high school students with the most limited access to physics and computer science knowledge.

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    To Abdullah Khalid to write a methods focused guide to quantum error correction.

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    To Hong-Ye Hu, Yi-Zhuang You, and Susanne Yelin, to open-source PyClifford, a fast and flexible Python-based Clifford + few T gates simulator.

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    To Tim Weaving and Alexis Ralli, to develop Symmer into a fully scalable qubit reduction toolkit for the quantum computing community.

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    To Paria Naghavi to add code, visualizations, and conceptual content to the QIR Book, to build knowledge bridges for incoming users to the ecosystem.

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    To Maria Maryam and Karen Rezkalla, to improve the database and develop the Python client API of Metriq, as part of the Qubit x Qubit Early Quantum Career Immersion Program.

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    To Haoxiang Wang and Min Li, to develop a high-level API for variational quantum algorithm (VQA) training with quantum error mitigation.

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    To Matt Lourens, to develop Dynamic QCNN, a tool to generate quantum convolutional neural network models programmatically.

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    To Steven Thomson, to create Inside Quantum, a new quantum technology themed podcast focusing on the people behind the research, aimed at showcasing a diverse range of voices in order to promote inclusivity and inspire the next generation of quantum technologists.

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    To Ayush Tambde, to develop a Higher-Level Oracle Description Language (HODL), so that the compiler can interoperate with other frameworks/languages (OpenQASM, QIR). [arXiv]

2021 Grants

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    To Lingling Lao, to develop 2QAN, a compiler that optimizes quantum circuits for 2-local qubit Hamiltonian simulation problems. [arXiv]

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    To Ben Braham, to develop a framework to define and run variational quantum algorithms in QuTiP, leveraging quantum optimal control to parametrize control pulses.

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    To Hoang Van Do, Elie Gouzien, and Saesun Kim to develop a Heisenberg-picture simulator and universal gate set for high dimensional systems.

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    To Abuzer Yakaryilmaz and the QWorld team to organize QCourse511, a graduate-level online course on quantum computing and programming.

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    To George Watkins, Alex Nguyen, Varun Seshadri, and Keelan Watkins to further develop a lattice-surgery-based quantum error correction compiler. [Demo at latticesurgery.com]

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    To Brian Shi to build Qdot, a Scala 3 library (QASM-transpiler) that allows Scala/Java developers write native quantum/hybrid programs.

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    To Gerald E. Fux and Dominic Gribben and the TEMPO collaboration to develop an open source python package for simulating non-Markovian open quantum systems using tensor network techniques. In particular, the grant will enable adding two new features: studying the role of environment correlation functions through observables of the system and of multiple environments coupled to a single system.

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    To Utkarsh Azad and Animesh Sinha to build a visualization tool called qLEET for exploring loss landscapes, expressibility, entangling capacity and trainability for noisy, parameterized quantum circuits.

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    To Danny Samuel to improve and extend the performance of variational quantum algorithms with error mitigation, benchmarking them with mirror circuits.

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    To Lorenzo Buffoni, to develop SQWalk, A Stochastic Quantum Walk simulator based on QuTiP.

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    To Jonas Schwab and the ALF collaboration, to develop pyALF, the Python interface of the ALF project, a powerful and flexible package for Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of fermion systems.

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    To the teams at Orange Quantum Systems and Qblox, to develop Quantify Core, an open-source Python-based data acquisition and experiment control platform for quantum computing and solid-state physics experiments. It is built on QCoDeS and is a spiritual successor of PycQED.

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    To Diego Ariel Wisniacki, Martin Larocca, Emiliano Manuel Fortes, Julian Matias Ruffinelli to develop Krylov evolution algorithms integrated with QuTiP. [K-GRAPE, Krylov-Loschmidt]. It is hosted at GitHub, and explained on Medium.

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    To Reem Larabi to add more visualization improvements to the %debug tool in Q# by expanding its current set of controls.

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    To Alessandro Luongo and Armando Bellante to develop Quantumalgorithms.org an open-source web book collecting in an organized manner lectures notes around quantum algorithms for information processing, data analysis and machine learning.

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    To Goutam Tamvada and Douglas Stebila to develop VeriFrodo, an open-source package implementing a lattice-based quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms in Jasmin within the Open Quantum Safe project.

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    To Owen Lockwood to develop a software package using classical deep reinforcement learning to improve quantum optimization, both for quantum simulations and hardware integration.

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    To Daniel Stilck França to develop a software package that will help benchmark the limitations of noisy quantum devices for solving optimization problems. [arXiv] [QIP talk on the technique].

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    To Rhea Parekh and Stephen DiAdamo to further develop Interlin-q, a distributed quantum-enabled simulator integrated with QuNetSim. [arXiv] [blog post]

2020 Grants

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    To Dariusz Lasecki to build an open-source Python library that delivers easy-to-use high-quality pre-trained machine learning models to predict good QAOA starting parameters for selected classes of problems.

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    To Oscar Higgott, to continue developing and maintaining PyMatching, a Python package for decoding quantum error correcting codes with minimum-weight perfect matching (MWPM). [arXiv]

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    To Nicola Mosco, to develop Marta CT, a software package in Julia for medical diagnostics that uses a quantum-tomography-inspired technique for state reconstruction in order to reduce the radiation dose patients receive. [arXiv]

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    To the QWorld, team, a follow-up grant to be incorporated as a non-profit organization and step up their activities. [ arXiv]

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    To the team at Qubit By Qubit, to develop courses and materials to educate a diverse ecosystem of open source quantum contributors.

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    To Pedro Rivero Ramírez for QRand, a multi-platform quantum random number generator library integrated with numpy.

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    To Jacob Miller for a PyTorch toolbox for matrix product state models.

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    To Rochisha Agarwal and Natansh Mathur to create a Machine Learning Textbook with integrated code and visualization.

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    To Mark Cunningham to explore applications of quantum computing to medical imaging.

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    To Spencer Churchill to write Quantum Tales, a series of fairy tales where quantum algorithms are applied to resolve their conflicts.

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    To Daniel Tan to develop and open source the Optimal Layout Synthesizer for Quantum Computing, OLSQ. This compiler beats other benchmarks on optimal layout of computational qubits onto physical qubits. [ arXiv] [ arXiv]

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    To Lia Yeh and the fullstackquantumcomputation.tech team to build community-driven open-source educational resources for quantum computing. [ site] [ discord]

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    To Olivia De Matteo and Sarah Kaiser to build and optimize an open source Q# library for quantum RAM. [ github]

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    To Roger Luo to continue the development of Yao.jl, a software for solving practical problems in quantum computation research. The grant will support Yao's new DSL compiler development, which includes an extensible DSL infrastructure, Julia-based frontend, Julia AST and QASM code generator, and a quantum circuit simplification infrastructure based on pattern matching. [ github]

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    To Mark Shui Hu to further develop Qsurface, a simulator package for surface codes. The grant will improve visualization methods and facilitate the collaboration of an open, modular platform for surface code simulations. [ github] [ Docs]

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    To Muhammad Usman Farooq for a research internship in the Yao group that lost funding due to the COVID crisis. They aim to construct a quantum channel with a Classical input Reverse Information Cost of zero.

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    To Dariusz Lasecki to build an open source QAOA library and examples using Q#.

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    To Stephen DiAdamo to develop QuNetSim, a quantum network Python simulation framework for investigating quantum network protocols. [ github] [ arXiv] [ video]

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    To Vincent Russo to support toqito, an open source Python toolkit for quantum information theory with extra functionality to study non-local games. [ software] [paper] [video]

2019 Grants

2018 Grants

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