Digital Quantum Simulation IV: Applications and Methods

Presentations

• Quantum–Classical Separation in Bounded-Resource Tasks Arising from Measurement Contextuality, Part I

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 18, 2026, 3:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Alejandro Grajales Dau

    • Google Quantum AI

  Authors

  • Alejandro Grajales Dau

    • Google Quantum AI

  • Shashwat Kumar

    • Princeton University

  • Eliott Rosenberg

    • Google LLC

  • Rodrigo Cortinas

    • Google Quantum AI

  • Pedram Roushan

    • Google LLC

  • Michel Devoret

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• Quantum–Classical Separation in Bounded-Resource Tasks Arising from Measurement Contextuality, Part II

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 3:42 PM – March 18, 2026, 3:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Shashwat Kumar

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Shashwat Kumar

    • Princeton University

  • Eliott Rosenberg

    • Google LLC

  • Alejandro Grajales Dau

    • Google Quantum AI

  • Rodrigo Cortinas

  • Pedram Roushan

    • Google LLC

  • Michel Devoret

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• An approach for calculating astrophysical opacities on quantum computers

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 18, 2026, 3:54 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Shivesh Pathak

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  Authors

  • Shivesh Pathak

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • Alina Kononov

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • Andrew Baczewski

    • Sandia National Laboratories

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• Probing the post-collision state in quantum simulations of scattering

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03111 (in review)
  Detecting particles in scattering simulations on quantum computers (in preparation)

  Presenters

  • Nikita Zemlevskiy

    • University of Washington

  Authors

  • Nikita Zemlevskiy

    • University of Washington

  • Roland Farrell

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Marc Illa

  • John Preskill

    • Caltech

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• Particle Detection on a Quantum Computer

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Sarah Powell

    • University of Washington

  Authors

  • Sarah Powell

    • University of Washington

  • Martin Savage

    • University of Washington

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• Quantum Advantage in Resource Estimation

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Publication: "Quantum Advantage in Resource Estimation": manuscript submitted

  Presenters

  • William Simon

    • Tufts University

  Authors

  • William Simon

    • Tufts University

  • Peter Love

    • Tufts University

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• Error detection without post-selection in adaptive quantum circuits

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Publication: E. Chertkov, A.C. Potter, D. Hayes, M. Foss-Feig. arxiv:2509.25326 (2025).

  Presenters

  • Eli Chertkov

    • Quantinuum

  Authors

  • Eli Chertkov

    • Quantinuum

  • Andrew Potter

  • David Hayes

    • Quantinuum

  • Michael Foss-Feig

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• Recursive algorithm for constructing antisymmetric fermionic states in first quantization mapping

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Publication: E. Rule, I. A. Chernyshev, I. Stetcu, J. Carlson, and R. Weiss. Recursive algorithm for constructing antisymmetric fermionic states in first quantization mapping. arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2509.07279 (2025).

  Presenters

  • Ivan Chernyshev

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Ivan Chernyshev

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Ionel Stetcu

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Joseph Carlson

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Evan Rule

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Evan Rule

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Ronen Weiss

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

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• Preparing 100-site gapped ground states of the XXZ model and the bond-alternating Heisenberg model on quantum hardware

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Publication: We plan to write a paper from this work.

  Presenters

  • George Pennington

    • Hartree Centre, Science and Technology Facilities Council

  Authors

  • George Pennington

    • Hartree Centre, Science and Technology Facilities Council

  • Kevin Smith

  • Lachlan Lindoy

    • National Physical Laboratory (NPL)

  • Jim Garrison

  • Ivan Rungger

    • National Physical Laboratory (NPL)

  • Stefano Mensa

  • Jason Crain

  • Benjamin Jaderberg

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• Warm start adiabatic state preparation

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Feng Qian

    • Tufts University

  Authors

  • Feng Qian

    • Tufts University

  • Peter Love

    • Tufts University

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• Quantum computation of massive four-fermion models in 1+1-dimensions

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 5:30 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Raghav Jha

    • NC State University

  Authors

  • Raghav Jha

    • NC State University

  • Alexander Kemper

    • North Carolina State University

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• Digital Quantum Simulations of the Open Tavis-Cummings-Hubbard Model

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 5:42 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Liam Hofmann

    • University of California, Davis

  Authors

  • Liam Hofmann

    • University of California, Davis

  • Nivita Reddy

  • Alex Rubin

    • University of California, Davis

  • Nathan Gonzalez

    • UC Davis

  • Aidan Sims

    • Cornell University

  • Marina Radulaski

    • University of California, Davis

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• STQS: A Unified System Architecture for Spatial Temporal Quantum Sensing

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 5:54 PM – March 18, 2026, 6:06 PM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17778

  Presenters

  • Anastashia Jebraeilli

    • University of Georgia

  Authors

  • Anastashia Jebraeilli

    • University of Georgia

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• Emulating the Holstein Primakoff Transformation with Noisy Qubits Authors: Kelvin Yip (Presenter), Alessandro Monteros, Sahel Ashhab, and Lin Tian

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 6:06 PM – March 18, 2026, 6:18 PM

  Publication: Emulating the Holstein Primakoff Transformation with Noisy Qubits(planned paper)

  Presenters

  • Kelvin Yip

    • University of California: Merced

  Authors

  • Kelvin Yip

    • University of California: Merced

  • Lin Tian

    • University of California, Merced

  • Alessandro Monteros

    • University of California, Merced

  • Sahel Ashhab

    • National Institute of Information and Communications Technol

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• A Two Unitary Operator Model for Quantum Computation Simulation

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 6:18 PM – March 18, 2026, 6:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Selman Hershfield

    • University of Florida

  Authors

  • Selman Hershfield

    • University of Florida

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