Microsoft announces quantum computing programming language
For more than a decade, a team of researchers, engineers and developers at Microsoft has been working on quantum computing, a new model of computing…
Tag: quantum computing
Elucidating reaction mechanisms on quantum computers
We show how a quantum computer can be employed to elucidate reaction mechanisms in complex chemical systems, using the open problem of biological…
APS Physical Review Letters selects Station Q paper
We are pleased to announce that the American Physical Society (APS) journal, Physical Review Letters, has selected the Station Q paper, Transport Signatures of Quasiparticle Poisoning…
Magic state distillation with low space overhead and optimal asymptotic input count
In our quest for topological quantum computing with Majorana zero modes, one missing piece is the efficient, high-quality creation of magic states to perform…
Design automation and design space exploration for quantum computers
A major hurdle for quantum algorithms for linear systems of equations, and for quantum simulation algorithms, is the difficulty to find simple circuits for…
Common framework for scientific experiments: QCoDeS
QCoDeS is an open source data acquisition framework that was created by distilling the homegrown solutions used in Station Q’s experimental labs, and infused…
Transport signatures of quasiparticle poisoning in a Majorana island
As its name implies, the poisoning of Majorana devices by normal electrons is fatal to topological computation, so much effort is now focused on characterizing…
Anomalous Fraunhofer Interference in Epitaxial Superconductor-Semiconductor Josephson Junctions
Last year saw a materials breakthrough, with the realization of a two-dimensional heterostructure combining superconductor and semiconductor layers. (See journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.93.15540.) Now, as shown in a…
Verified compilation of space-efficient reversible circuits
Generation of reversible circuits from high-level code is an important problem in the compilation flow of quantum algorithms to lower-level hardware. The instantiation of…
Training a quantum optimizer
In this paper, published in Physical Review A, we show how to greatly improve success at solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems on a quantum computer…
Direct from the 2016 Quantum Retreat in Redmond
The 2016 QRetreat took place on Microsoft’s Redmond campus on April 28 and 29, 2016. QRetreat is an annual meeting of the Station Q…
LIQUi| for quantum computing
LIQUi|> is a software architecture and tool suite for quantum computing. It includes a programming language, optimization and scheduling algorithms, and quantum simulators. LIQUi|>…