The Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, is a top-funding state initiative to establish a major international hub for Science & Technology (https://www.tii.ae/). The Quantum Research Centre (QRC) at TII has world-class theoretical and experimental research groups on different quantum technologies (https://quantum.tii.ae/about-us-quantum).
The Quantum Algorithms Division, directed by Leandro Aolita, focusses on the development and deployment of quantum-enhanced methods for many-body quantum simulations, linear algebra problems, partial differential equations systems, complex optimizations, and machine learning tasks, among others. Our goals are two-fold: practical primitives for near-term quantum hardware as well as advanced procedures for future, fully-fledged fault-tolerant quantum computers. In addition to quantum enhanced-algorithms, the group is also very strong on tensor networks and other quantum-inspired methods, with practical applications to computational fluid dynamics or in-silico protein design, e.g. Moreover, apart from the application front-end, we are also extremely active on the theory of quantum computing engineering systems, from efficient methods to benchmark quantum hardware and characterize their noise to quantum error mitigation and correction.
Research activities include
- quantum simulation of interacting many-body stystems
- quantum signal processing/ quantum singular value transform
- quantum error correction and mitigation
- benchmarking of experimental quantum devices
- efficient methods for characterization of device errors
- computational complexity
- resources for quantum computing
- hybrid classical-quantum approaches
- neural- and tensor networks
- quantum-inspired and de-quantized algorithms
- quantum-circuit compiling/optimization
- quantum-software development and deployment
