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TQC

TQC · 2019

Maryland, United States, 3–7 June 2019.


52
talks
53
posters
239
unique authors
32
regular papers
16
invited talks
1
awards
42
committee members

Announced at the business meeting

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

225
registered a

Notes

  1. Registered. In-person; 83 students; 3 days TQC + 2 days NISQ workshop; TQC organizers' participant compilation shared with QuantumDB (2026)

Programme

Title Type Date Min Authors Award
Ewin Tang: Building a classical framework to analyze quantum machine learning speedups invited 2019-06-03 09:00 45 ▸Ewin Tang —
A simple protocol for verifiable delegation of quantum computation in one round regular 2019-06-03 25 ▸Alex Bredariol Grilo —
Applications of the Quantum Algorithm for st-Connectivity regular 2019-06-03 25 Kai DeLorenzo, Shelby Kimmel, Raylen Witter —
Circuit Transformations for Quantum Architectures regular 2019-06-03 30 Andrew Childs, Eddie Schoute, Cem M. Unsal —
Classical zero-knowledge arguments for quantum computations regular 2019-06-03 25 Thomas Vidick, Tina Zhang —
History-state Hamiltonians are critical regular 2019-06-03 25 Toby Cubitt, Carlos Gonzalez-Guillen —
On Quantum Chosen-Ciphertext Attacks and Learning with Errors regular 2019-06-03 25 Gorjan Alagic, Stacey Jeffery, Maris Ozols, Alexander Poremba —
Quantum Advantage for the LOCAL Model in Distributed Computing regular 2019-06-03 25 François Le Gall, Harumichi Nishimura, Ansis Rosmanis —
Quantum Distinguishing Complexity, Zero-Error Algorithms, and Statistical Zero Knowledge regular 2019-06-03 25 Shalev Ben-David, Robin Kothari —
Unforgeable Authentication and Signing of Quantum States regular 2019-06-03 25 Gorjan Alagic, Tommaso Gagliardoni, Christian Majenz —
Ken Brown: Error Reduction, Fault Tolerance, and Scalability invited 2019-06-04 09:00 45 ▸Kenneth R. Brown —
Approximate Unitary n^{2/3}-Designs Give Rise to Quantum Channels with Super Additive Classical Holevo Capacity regular 2019-06-04 25 Aditya Nema, Pranab Sen —
Approximate unitary n^{2/3}-designs give rise to quantum channels with super additive classical capacity regular 2019-06-04 25 Aditya Nema, Pranab Sen —
Bayesian ACRONYM Tuning regular 2019-06-04 25 John Gamble, Christopher E. Granade, Nathan Wiebe —
Convexity and Operational Interpretation of the Quantum Information Bottleneck Function regular 2019-06-04 25 Nilanjana Datta, Christoph Hirche, Andreas Winter —
Efficient learning of Pauli channels regular 2019-06-04 25 Joel Wallman, Steven Flammia —
Fine-grained parameterization of tensor network contraction regular 2019-06-04 25 ▸Bryan O’Gorman —
Parameterization of Tensor Network Contraction regular 2019-06-04 25 ▸Bryan O'Gorman —
Tensor network representations from the geometry of entangled states regular 2019-06-04 25 Matthias Christandl, Angelo Lucia, Peter Vrana, Albert H. Werner —
Trading T-gates for dirty qubits in state preparation and unitary synthesis regular 2019-06-04 25 Guang Hao Low, Vadym Kliuchnikov, Luke Schaeffer —
Universal logical gate sets with constant-depth circuits for topological and hyperbolic quantum codes regular 2019-06-04 25 Guanyu Zhu, Ali Lavasani, Maissam Barkeshli —
Von Neumann entropy from unitarity regular 2019-06-04 30 Paul Boes, Jens Eisert, Rodrigo Gallego, Markus Müller, Henrik Wilming —
A resource theory of entanglement with a unique multipartite maximally entangled state regular 2019-06-05 25 Patricia Contreras Tejada, Carlos Palazuelos, Julio de Vicente —
Axiomatic theory of Higher-Order Quantum Computation regular 2019-06-05 25 Alessandro Bisio, Paolo Perinotti —
Continuous groups of transversal gates for quantum error correcting codes from finite clock reference frames regular 2019-06-05 30 Alvaro Martin Alhambra, Mischa Woods —
Nearly optimal lattice simulation by product formulas regular 2019-06-05 30 Andrew Childs, Yuan Su —
One-way quantum repeater with minimal-resources regular 2019-06-05 25 Johannes Borregaard, Hannes Pichler, Tim Schröder, Mikhail Lukin, Peter Lodahl, Anders Sørensen —
Quantum computing with rotation-symmetric bosonic codes regular 2019-06-05 25 Arne Grimsmo, Joshua Combes, Ben Baragiola —
Toy Models of Holographic Duality between local Hamiltonians regular 2019-06-05 25 Tamara Kohler, Toby Cubitt —
Universal Quantum Emulator regular 2019-06-05 25 Iman Marvian, Seth Lloyd —
A Compressed Classical Description of Quantum States invited 2019-06-05 45 David Gosset, John Smolin Outstanding Paper Award
András Gilyén: Quantum Singular Value Transformation & its algorithmic applications invited 2019-06-05 45 ▸Andras Pal Gilyen —
Chris Monroe (UMD/IonQ) invited 2019-06-06 45 ▸Christopher Monroe —
Continuous symmetries and approximate quantum error correction invited 2019-06-06 45 Philippe Faist, Sepehr Nezami, Victor Albert, Grant Salton, Fernando Pastawski, Patrick Hayden, John Preskill —
Dave Bacon (Google) invited 2019-06-06 45 ▸David Bacon —
Lorenza Viola (Dartmouth) invited 2019-06-06 45 ▸Lorenza Viola —
Paola Cappellaro (MIT) invited 2019-06-06 45 ▸Paola Cappellaro —
Ashley Montanaro (Bristol) invited 2019-06-07 45 ▸Ashley Montanaro —
David Gosset (Waterloo) invited 2019-06-07 45 ▸David Gosset —
Elizabeth Crosson (UNM) invited 2019-06-07 45 ▸Elizabeth Crosson —
Hanhee Paik (IBM) invited 2019-06-07 45 ▸Hanhee Paik —
Krysta Svore (Microsoft) invited 2019-06-07 45 ▸Krysta Marie Svore —
Mikhail Lukin (Harvard) invited 2019-06-07 45 ▸Mikhail Lukin —
Peter Zoller (Innsbruck/IQOQI) invited 2019-06-07 45 ▸Peter Zoller —
Catalytic Quantum Randomness regular — — Paul Boes, Henrik Wilming, Rodrigo Gallego, Jens Eisert —
Faster quantum simulation by randomization regular — — Andrew Childs, Aaron Ostrander, Yuan Su —
On the Qubit Routing Problem regular — — Alexander Cowtan, Silas Dilkes, Ross Duncan, Alexandre Krajenbrink, Will Simmons, Seyon Sivarajah —
The RGB No-Signalling Game regular — — Xavier Coiteux-Roy, Claude Crepeau —
A Quantum Solution for Efficient Use of Symmetries in the Simulation of Many-Body Systems poster — — Albert Schmitz, Sonika Johri —
Adaptive Procedures for Discrimination of Arbitrary Tensor-Product Quantum States poster — — Sarah Brandsen, Mengke Lian, Kevin Stubbs, Narayanan Rengaswamy, Henry Pfister —
Almost thermal operations: inhomogeneous reservoirs poster — — Valerio Scarani, Angeline Shu, Yu Cai, Stella Seah, Stefan Nimmrichter —
Almost-tight and versatile security analysis of measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution poster — — Ignatius William Primaatmaja, Emilien Lavie, Koon Tong Goh, Chao Wang, Charles Ci Wen Lim —
Autonomous quantum error correction by engineered dissipation poster — — Chiao-Hsuan Wang, Jose Lebreuilly, Kyungjoo Noh, Steven M. Girvin, Liang Jiang —
Characterization of Clifford perfect tensors poster — — Mengzhen Zhang, Liang Jiang —
Complexity phase transitions in interacting and long-range bosonic Hamiltonians poster — — Nishad Maskara, Abhinav Deshpande, Minh Cong Tran, Michael Foss-Feig, Bill Fefferman, Alexey Gorshkov —
Device-independent tools can be advantageous also when the experiment is not device-independent poster — — Koon Tong Goh, Chithrabhanu Perumangatt, Zhi Xian Lee, Alexander Ling, Valerio Scarani —
Distributing Graph States Over Arbitrary Quantum Networks poster — — Clément Meignant, Damian Markham, Frédéric Grosshans —
Distributional property testing in a quantum world poster — — Andras Pal Gilyen, Tongyang Li —
Entanglement of Microwave-Optical Modes in a Strong Coupled Electro-Optomechanical System poster — — Changchun Zhong, Liang Jiang —
Fault-tolerant photon-number selective phase gates in circuit quantum electrodynamics poster — — Wenlong Ma, Kyungjoo Noh, Philip Reinhold, Serge Rosenblum, Steven M. Girvin, Robert Schoelkopf, Liang Jiang —
Finding spin glass ground states using continuous-time quantum walks poster — — Adam Callison, Nicholas Chancellor, Florian Mintert, Viv Kendon —
Hardware-efficient quantum random access memory with hybrid quantum acoustic systems poster — — Connor T. Hann, Chang-Ling Zou, Yaxing Zhang, Yiwen Chu, Robert Schoelkopf, Steven M. Girvin, Liang Jiang —
Heat and energy dissipation in the simultaneous weak measurement of non-commuting observables poster — — Maicol Ochoa —
Kerdock Codes Determine Unitary 2-Designs poster — — Trung Can, Narayanan Rengaswamy, Robert Calderbank, Henry Pfister —
Locality and digital quantum simulation of power-law interactions poster — — Andrew Guo, Minh Cong Tran, Yuan Su, James Garrison, Zachary Eldredge, Michael Foss-Feig, Andrew Childs, Alexey Gorshkov —
Logical operations on Majorana subsystem codes poster — — Sourav Kundu, Ben Reichardt —
Magic measures for quantum states and quantum channels poster — — Xin Wang, Mark M. Wilde, Yuan Su —
Many-body cat states via spontaneous symmetry breaking poster — — Jose Lebreuilly —
Monotonicity Under Local Operations: Linear Entropic Formulas poster — — Mohammad A. Alhejji, Graeme Smith —
Non-malleability for quantum public-key encryption poster — — Christian Majenz, Christian Schaffner, Jeroen van Wier —
Nonadaptive fault-tolerant verification of quantum supremacy with noise poster — — Theodoros Kapourniotis, Animesh Datta —
On Basing One-way Permutations on NP-hard Problems under Quantum Reductions poster — — Nai-Hui Chia, Sean Hallgren, Fang Song —
On boosting near-term variational quantum algorithms using past causal cones poster — — Omar Shehab, Isaac Kim, Nhung Nguyen, Kevin Landsman, Cinthia Alderete, Daiwei Zhu, Norbert Linke, Christopher Monroe —
On the spectral gap of random quantum channels poster — — Carlos Gonzalez-Guillen, Marius Junge, Ion Nechita —
One-way and two-way LOCC separation in entanglement cost of one-shot quantum state merging poster — — Hayata Yamasaki, Mio Murao —
Optimal normal forms for two-qubit Clifford and Controlled Phase gate circuits poster — — Andrew Glaudell, Jake Taylor —
Oracle complexity classes and local measurements on physical Hamiltonians poster — — Sevag Gharibian, Stephen Piddock, Justin Yirka —
Parallel Self-Testing of the GHZ State with a Proof by Diagrams poster — — Spencer Breiner, Amir Kalev, Carl Miller —
Product Spectrum Ansatz and the Simplicity of Thermal States poster — — John Martyn, Brian Swingle —
QAOA Digitizes an Asymptotic Curve: A Path Sum Approach poster — — Lucas Brady, Aniruddha Bapat, Alexey Gorshkov —
QMA vs. QCMA via Subset States poster — — Anne Broadbent, Supartha Podder —
Quantum Sparse Support Vector Machines poster — — Seyran Saeedi, Tomasz Arodz —
Quantum Spectral Methods for Differential Equations poster — — Andrew Childs, Jin-Peng Liu —
Quantum error correction in quantum metrology poster — — Sisi Zhou, Wojciech Gorecki, David Layden, Mengzhen Zhang, John Preskill, Paola Cappellaro, Rafał Demkowicz-Dobrzański, Liang Jiang —
Quantum repeater architecture with hierarchically optimized memory buffer times poster — — Siddhartha Santra, Liang Jiang, Vladimir Malinovsky —
Quantum-inspired classical sublinear-time algorithm for solving low-rank semidefinite programming via sampling approaches poster — — Nai-Hui Chia, Tongyang Li, Han-Hsuan Lin, Chunhao Wang —
Quanvolutional Neural Networks: Powering Image Recognition with Quantum Circuits poster — — Maxwell Henderson, Samriddhi Shakya, Tristan Cook —
Randomized benchmarking for individual quantum gates poster — — Emilio Onorati, Albert H. Werner, Jens Eisert —
Robust fault tolerance for continuous-variable cluster states with excess anti-squeezing poster — — Blayney Walshe, Lucas Mensen, Ben Baragiola, Nicolas Menicucci —
Sample complexity of device-independently certified “quantum supremacy” poster — — Dominik Hangleiter, Martin Kliesch, Jens Eisert, Christian Gogolin —
Saturating the quantum Cramer-Rao bound using LOCC poster — — Sisi Zhou, Chang-Ling Zou, Liang Jiang —
Self-Concordance and Matrix Monotonicity with Applications to Quantum Entanglement Problems poster — — Cunlu Zhou, Leonid Faybusovich —
Self-Verifying Variational Quantum Simulation of Lattice Models poster — — Christian Kokail, Rick van Bijnen —
Spin Texture and Entanglement in Topological Spin Josephson Junctions poster — — Pei-Xin Shen, Mircea Trif —
Stochastic Estimation of Dynamical Variables poster — — Stefan Krastanov, Sisi Zhou, Steven Flammia, Liang Jiang —
The Born Supremacy: Quantum Advantage and Training of an Ising Born Machine poster — — Brian Coyle, Daniel Mills, Vincent Danos, Elham Kashefi —
Unifying the Clifford Hierarchy via Symmetric Matrices over Rings poster — — Narayanan Rengaswamy, Robert Calderbank, Henry Pfister —
Validating and Certifying Stabilizer States poster — — Amir Kalev, Anastasios Kyrillidis, Norbert Linke —
Verification of Quantum Optimizers poster — — Flavio Baccari, Christian Gogolin, Peter Wittek, Antonio Acin —
Verification of hidden Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering using local filtering operations poster — — Yong-Su Kim, Tanumoy Pramanik, Young-Wook Cho, Sang-Wook Han, Sang-Yun Lee, Sung Moon —
Verifying quantum computations on noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices poster — — Samuele Ferracin, Theodoros Kapourniotis, Animesh Datta —
Cambridge Quantum Computing — Focus Areas industry — 17 Tom Benjamin, Krithik Puthalath —
From Quantum Programming to Quantum Development industry — 26 ▸Christopher E. Granade —
Introduction to Baidu Quantum Program industry — 22 ▸Lijing Jin —
Research and technology for scalable quantum computing industry — 24 ▸Zachary Dutton —

Committees

Organizing Committee 7 members
Name Position Role Affiliation
Aarthi Sundaram chair — —
Alexey Gorshkov chair — NISQ
Gorjan Alagic chair — —
Andrew Childs member — —
Carl Miller member — —
Jacob Taylor member — —
Yi-Kai Liu member — —
Program Committee 27 members
Name Position Role Affiliation
Laura Mančinska chair — QMATH , University of Copenhagen
Wim van Dam co_chair — UC Santa Barbara and QC Ware
Ana Belén Sainz member — Perimeter Institute
Andre Chailloux member — INRIA
Barbara Maria Terhal member — QuTech, TU Delft
Christopher Portmann member — ETH Zürich
Elizabeth Crosson member — University of New Mexico
Eric Chitambar member — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ernesto F. Galvão member — Universidade Federal Fluminense
François Le Gall member — Kyoto University
John Watrous member — IQC, University of Waterloo
Juan Miguel Arrazola member — Xanadu
Keisuke Fujii member — Kyoto University
Mario Berta member — Imperial College London
Maris Ozols member — QuSoft and University of Amsterdam
Omar Fawzi member — ENS de Lyon
Pranab Sen member — Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Rahul Jain member — CQT, National University of Singapore
Robert König member — Technische Universität München
Ronald de Wolf member — CWI and University of Amsterdam
Salman Beigi member — IPM, Tehran
Serge Massar member — Université libre de Bruxelles
Sergey Bravyi member — IBM Research
Shelby Kimmel member — Middlebury College
Steven Flammia member — University of Sydney
Tobias J. Osborne member — Leibniz Universität Hannover
Zhengfeng Ji member — University of Technology Sydney
Steering Committee 8 members
Name Position Role Affiliation
Aram Harrow chair — —
Anne Broadbent member — —
Marco Tomamichel member — —
Martin Rötteler member — —
Simone Severini member — —
Stacey Jeffery member — —
Wim van Dam member — —
Yasuhito Kawano member — —