Quantum Catalysis [Conferences & Workshops]

Farha Khan, Mohammad Adil, Mohammad Oves

Mohammad Oves, Mohammad Shahadat

Rui Abreu, Shaukat Ali, Tao Yue

The First International Workshop on Quantum Software Engineering (Q-SE 2020), co-located with the 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2020), was held between July 2 and July 3, 2020. The workshop was originally scheduled to be a physical event in May 2020. Due to the SARS-CoV-2, aligned with the main conference, the workshop was held virtually instead. This report summarizes the keynote speeches, the paper presentations in the workshop, and the ensuing discussions. IEEE and ACM publish the proceedings of the workshop as part of the ICSE 2020 Workshops Companion.

Roy Mcweeny

Rui Zhang, Zi-Yu Zhou, Wen-Quan Yang +3 more

We propose a theoretical scheme for quantum enhanced distributed network sensing, targeting multiphase estimation by leveraging multiple quantum resources. Specifically, we investigate the performance advantage in a distributed quantum network (DQN) for multiphase sensing by integrating three types of quantum resources(TQRs): quantum catalysis, entanglement, and squeezing. Our results reveal that employing all three TQRs leads to better sensing performance than using only two TQRs under both lossless and lossy conditions, with precision approaching the Heisenberg limit. We further demonstrate that partial quantum catalysis providesa stronger precision advantage than global catalysis in both ideal and noisy regimes. We identify a practical homodyne measurement scheme for globally and partially catalyzed multimode W type coherent states, whose measurement sensitivity can approach the corresponding quantum Cramer Rao bound. In this practical setting, partial catalysis also yields better measurement sensitivity than global catalysis. Moreover, under photon loss, both global and partial catalysis of multimode W type coherent states exhibit a loss catalysis dual enhanced sensitivity region. These findings highlight the quantum-enhanced advantages conferred by hybrid quantum resources for practical DQN sensing applications. Our work opens a way for realizing quantum-enhanced DQN sensing.

IEEE Quantum Week 2022 Workshops provide forums for group discussions (i.e., 20-50 participants) on QCE22 topics in quantum research, practice, education, and applications.Workshops provide opportunities for researchers, practitioners, scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, developers, students, educators, programmers, and newcomers to exchange and discuss scientific and engineering ideas at an early stage before they have matured to warrant a conference or journal publication.In this manner, an IEEE Quantum Week workshop serves as a forum for common interests or as an incubator for a scientific community to form a research roadmap or share a research agenda.Workshops are the key to sustaining, growing, and evolving IEEE Quantum Week in the future.For the first time, the QCE22 program includes a colocated conference, the Quantum Science and Engineering Conference, where education researchers and practitioners come together to discuss methodologies for curriculum and tool development for instruction and teaching.We expect this to become an annual event, emphasizing the importance of education in building a broad and diverse quantum community and workforce.xlvii