Quantum Computing with Simulators on HPC

Event content

In the era of noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers (NISQ), quantum computer (QC) simulation plays a vital role in exploring new algorithms, debugging quantum states, or quantifying noise effects. While a laptop is fully suitable for smaller circuits, simulating more Qubits, running large numbers of shots or circuit variations, and simulating noise often require resources on the high performance computing (HPC) scale.
This course covers the usage of different QC simulators offered on our HPC systems from both the command line interface (CLI) and our JupyterHub service. It focuses on the advantages of running simulations on an HPC system, mainly scaling to wider and deeper circuits, running shots in parallel, and including noise models.

Learning goal

• What QC simulators can do
• How to choose a suitable QC simulator
• Using simulators on HPC from the CLI and JupyterHub
• Connecting simulators to QC frameworks
• Scaling QC simulations

Information about the event

Max. participants

30

Requirements

Basic knowledge of implementing and running gate based quantum algorithms on a laptop. For the practical exercises: GWDG account (preferable) or course account (available upon request), own laptop.

Speakers

Tino Meisel

Dr. Christian Boehme