Q-Map: Quantum Circuit Implementation of Boolean Functions

Quantum computing has gained attention in recent years due to the significant progress in quantum computing technology. Today many companies like IBM, Google and Microsoft have developed quantum computers and simulators for research and commercial use. The development of quantum techniques and algorithms is essential to exploit the full power of quantum computers. In this paper we propose a simple visual technique (we call Q-Map) for quantum realisation of classical Boolean logic circuits. The proposed method utilises concepts from Boolean algebra to produce a quantum circuit with minimal number of quantum gates.Comment: 17 page

Digital Discovery of 100 diverse Quantum Experiments with PyTheus

Photons are the physical system of choice for performing experimental tests of the foundations of quantum mechanics. Furthermore, photonic quantum technology is a main player in the second quantum revolution, promising the development of better sensors, secure communications, and quantum-enhanced computation. These endeavors require generating specific quantum states or efficiently performing quantum tasks. The design of the corresponding optical experiments was historically powered by human creativity but is recently being automated with advanced computer algorithms and artificial intelligence. While several computer-designed experiments have been experimentally realized, this approach has not yet been widely adopted by the broader photonic quantum optics community. The main roadblocks consist of most systems being closed-source, inefficient, or targeted to very specific use-cases that are difficult to generalize. Here, we overcome these problems with a highly-efficient, open-source digital discovery framework PyTheus, which can employ a wide range of experimental devices from modern quantum labs to solve various tasks. This includes the discovery of highly entangled quantum states, quantum measurement schemes, quantum communication protocols, multi-particle quantum gates, as well as the optimization of continuous and discrete properties of quantum experiments or quantum states. PyTheus produces interpretable designs for complex experimental problems which human researchers can often readily conceptualize. PyTheus is an example of a powerful framework that can lead to scientific discoveries -- one of the core goals of artificial intelligence in science. We hope it will help accelerate the development of quantum optics and provide new ideas in quantum hardware and technology

Entanglement and energy level crossing of spin and Fermi Hamilton operators

M.Sc. (Applied Mathematics)Entanglement is a quantum resource with applications in quantum communication as well as quantum computing amongst others. Since quantum entanglement is such an abstract concept numerous mathematical measures exist. Some of these have a purely theoretic purpose whereas others play a role in describing the magnitude of entanglement of a system. In quantum systems energy level crossing may occur. Energy levels in quantum systems tend to repel each other so when any type of degeneracy occurs where the energy levels coalesce or cross it is of interest to us. Two such points of degeneracy are exceptional and diabolic points. When these occur it is useful to investigate these points in specific systems and observe level crossing. In this thesis we mainly investigate the relationship between entanglement, energy level crossing and symmetry as well as the exceptional and diabolic points of specific systems. We are especially interested in systems described by spin and Fermi operators