TQC 2018 — QuantumDB

talks

posters

unique authors

regular papers

invited talks

awards

committee members

Announced at the business meeting

Figures as reported by the chairs. They can differ from the counts above.

142

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Notes

Registered. In-person; 56 students; TQC organizers' participant compilation shared with QuantumDB (2026)

Programme

Title	Type	Date	Min	Authors	Award
A Complete Axiomatisation of the ZX-Calculus for Clifford+T Quantum Mechanics	regular	—	—	Emmanuel Jeandel, Simon Perdrix, Renaud Vilmart	—
Advantages of versatile neural-network decoding for topological codes	regular	—	—	Nishad Maskara, Aleksander Kubica, Tomas Jochym-O'Connor	—
Approximate low-weight check codes and circuit lower bounds for noisy ground states	regular	—	—	Chinmay Nirkhe, Umesh Vazirani, Henry Yuen	—
Canonical forms for single-qutrit Clifford+T operators	regular	—	—	Andrew Glaudell, Neil J. Ross, Jacob Taylor	—
Contextuality bounds the efficiency of classical simulation of quantum processes	regular	—	—	Angela Karanjai, Joel Wallman, Stephen D. Bartlett	—
Deep neural decoders for near term fault-tolerant experiments	regular	—	—	Christopher Chamberland, Pooya Ronagh	—
Efficient Population Transfer via Non-Ergodic Extended States in Quantum Spin Glass	regular	—	—	Kostyantyn Kechedzhi, Vadim Smelyanskiy, Jarrod McClean, Vasil S. Denchev, Masoud Mohseni, Sergei Isakov, Sergio Boixo, Boris Altshuler, Hartmut Neven	—
Hamiltonian Simulation by Uniform Spectral Amplification	regular	—	—	Guang Hao Low, Isaac Chuang	—
Learning phase transitions from dynamics	regular	—	—	Evert van Nieuwenburg, Eyal Bairey, Gil Refael	—
Locality at the boundary implies gap in the bulk for 2D PEPS	regular	—	—	Michael Kastoryano, Angelo Lucia, David Perez-Garcia	—
Locality-preserving logical operators in topological stabilizer codes	regular	—	—	Paul Webster, Stephen D. Bartlett	—
On the CNOT-complexity of CNOT-PHASE circuits	regular	—	—	Matthew Amy, Parsiad Azimzadeh, Michele Mosca	—
On the Complexity of Two Dimensional Commuting Local Hamiltonians	regular	—	—	Dorit Aharonov, Oded Kenneth, Itamar Vigdorovich	—
Quantum Channel Simulation and the Channel’s Smooth Max-Information	regular	—	—	Kun Fang, Xin Wang, Marco Tomamichel, Mario Berta	—
Quantum Ciphertext Authentication and Key Recycling with the Trap Code	regular	—	—	Yfke Dulek, Florian Speelman	—
Quantum Error Correction with the Surface-GKP Code	regular	—	—	Christophe Vuillot, Yang Wang, Leonid Pryadko, Barbara Maria Terhal	—
Quantum Lower Bounds for Tripartite Versions of the Hidden Shift and the Set Equality Problems	regular	—	—	Aleksandrs Belovs, Ansis Rosmanis	—
Quantum Network Code for Multiple-Unicast Network with Quantum Invertible Linear Operations	regular	—	—	Seunghoan Song, Masahito Hayashi	—
Quantum Simulation of Electronic Structure with Linear Depth and Connectivity	regular	—	—	Ian Kivlichan, Jarrod McClean, Nathan Wiebe, Craig Gidney, Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Garnet Kin-Lic Chan, Ryan Babbush	—
Quantum algorithms to simulate many-body physics of correlated fermions	regular	—	—	Zhang Jiang, Kevin Sung, Kostyantyn Kechedzhi, Vadim Smelyanskiy, Sergio Boixo	—
Quantum conditional relative entropy and quasi-factorization of the relative entropy	regular	—	—	Ángela Capel, Angelo Lucia, David Perez-Garcia	—
Statistical mechanical models for correlated noise in arbitrary stabiliser codes	regular	—	—	Christopher T. Chubb, Steven Flammia	—
Subset Sum Quantumly in 1.17^n	regular	—	—	Alexander Helm, Alexander May	—
The Quantum Complexity of Computing Schatten p-norms	regular	—	—	Christopher Cade, Ashley Montanaro	—
Thermal States as Convex Combinations of Matrix Product States	regular	—	—	Mario Berta, Fernando G. S. L. Brandão, Jutho Haegeman, Volkher Scholz, Frank Verstraete	—
Trading Inverses for an Irrep in the Solovay-Kitaev Theorem	regular	—	—	Adam Bouland, Maris Ozols	—
Two-qubit Stabilizer Circuits with Recovery I: Existence	regular	—	—	Wim van Dam, Raymond Wong	—
Two-qubit Stabilizer Circuits with Recovery II: Analysis	regular	—	—	Wim van Dam, Raymond Wong	—
Universal Qudit Hamiltonians	regular	—	—	Stephen Piddock, Ashley Montanaro	—
Universal extensions of restricted classes of quantum operations	regular	—	—	Michal Oszmaniec, Zoltan Zimboras	—
Invited talk by Adam Bouland	invited	—	—	▸Adam Bouland	—
Invited talk by Hakop Pashayan	invited	—	—	▸Hakop Pashayan	—
Invited talk by Joe Fitzsimons	invited	—	—	▸Joseph F. Fitzsimons	—
Invited talk by Michelle Simmons	invited	—	—	▸Michelle Simmons	—

Committees

Organizing Committee 6 members

Name	Position	Role	Affiliation
Christopher Ferrie	chair	Local Organising Committee chair (QSML)	University of Technology Sydney
Marco Tomamichel	chair	Local Organising Committee chair	University of Technology Sydney
Michael Bremner	member	—	University of Technology Sydney
Min-Hsiu Hsieh	member	—	University of Technology Sydney
Peter Rohde	member	—	University of Technology Sydney
Simon Devitt	member	—	University of Technology Sydney

Program Committee 33 members

Name	Position	Role	Affiliation
Stacey Jeffery	chair	—	QuSoft, CWI
Aleksandrs Belovs	member	—	University of Latvia
Andrew Childs	member	—	University of Maryland
Anthony Leverrier	member	—	Inria
Ashley Montanaro	member	—	University of Bristol
Beni Yoshida	member	—	Perimeter Institute
Benjamin Brown	member	—	University of Sydney
David Elkouss	member	—	QuTech, TU Delft
David Gosset	member	—	IBM
David Gross	member	—	University of Cologne
Dominic Berry	member	—	Macquarie University
Elizabeth Crosson	member	—	California Institute of Technology
Fang Song	member	—	Portland State University
François Le Gall	member	—	Kyoto University
Henry Yuen	member	—	Berkeley / Toronto
Jamie Sikora	member	—	Perimeter Institute
Ke Li	member	—	Harbin Institute of Technology
Keisuke Fujii	member	—	Kyoto University
Laura Mančinska	member	—	QMATH, University of Copenhagen
Mario Berta	member	—	Imperial College
Masahito Hayashi	member	—	Nagoya University / CQT NUS
Matthew McKague	member	—	Queensland University of Technology
Michael Walter	member	—	QuSoft, University of Amsterdam
Miriam Backens	member	—	University of Oxford
Peter Høyer	member	—	University of Calgary
Philippe Faist	member	—	Caltech
Pradeep Kiran Sarvepalli	member	—	IIT Madras
Rahul Jain	member	—	CQT NUS
Raul Garcia-Patron	member	—	ULB
Robin Kothari	member	—	Microsoft Research
Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay	member	—	Bose Institute, Calcutta
Steven Flammia	member	—	University of Sydney
Thomas Vidick	member	—	California Institute of Technology

Steering Committee 8 members

Name	Position	Role	Affiliation
Anne Broadbent	member	—	U Ottawa
Aram Harrow	member	—	MIT
Mark M. Wilde	member	—	LSU
Martin Rötteler	member	—	Microsoft Research
Michele Mosca	member	—	IQC
Simone Severini	member	—	UCL
Wim van Dam	member	—	UCSB
Yasuhito Kawano	member	—	NTT, Tokyo