PhD position - Quantum computing for optimization on NISQ computers

OPPORTUNITY DETAILS

Total reward

0 $

State University

CEA Tech

Area

Western Europe

Host Country

France

Deadline

31 Oct 2021

Study level

Doctoral Degree

Opportunity type

PhD

Specialities

Information technology and computer science , Mathematics , Physics , Chemistry

Opportunity funding

Not funding

Eligible Countries

This opportunity is destined for all countries

Eligible Region

All Regions

SL-DRT-21-0400

RESEARCH FIELD

New computing paradigms, circuits and technologies, incl. quantum

ABSTRACT

Today's quantum computers are still far from the ideal case scenario that where though of by the first contributors of quantum computing: they are still tiny (a few dozens of qubits at best), noisy, imperfect. These are now known as NISQ computers or Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum devices. Being tiny and noisy however does not mean they are worthless, and as they will be the dominant kind of quantum computing devices for the foreseeable future, it is of great value to investigate what would be possible to implement on these new kind of computer in the case of optimization problems, especially in the case of so-called "hybrid algorithm" for which the NISQ computer is considered as a quantum accelerator within a more standard processing implemented otherwise on a standard computer.In this PhD thesis we will investigate the limits of the first NISQ computers publicly available (either real hardware or simulators) and how to use despite their limitations within an optimization algorithm.