(This is a screenshot from CERN, I hope you don’t mind that I sometimes keep screenshots. It’s never of anything confidential; I just keep them to help me remember our meetings in a more systematic way, as I don’t have a good memory.)
https://cds.cern.ch/record/2646429/?ln=en
I found the exact link to the meeting I attended at CERN six years ago (they publish the meetings online, and I also have the PDF of the presentation if you’re interested). The meeting is related to what I do and what I mentioned in our AI/ML meeting a while ago about quantum computing. Google reached similar results that were presented there on November 5th, 2018, but I had already published one of the patterns months earlier (on June 4th, 2018, though I had found them two years before using IBM’s quantum computer—not the same, but it’s the same idea). I did it just to see if it could help me be considered for a more interesting project. It’s not a big deal because, in some environments, the advantage can be eliminated by transpilation. However, if that’s not the case, interesting behaviors can be experimented with on different quantum computers. Currently, these kinds of issues are mitigated with logical qubits.
Apologies, I never formally introduced myself to any group because my first approach to NASA was in late 2019 with the Fundamental Physics group, where I sent my abstract to discuss the topic. However, COVID delayed the meetings until 2021. (Also, I prefer to help with the problems you publish on the platform, as I’ve done until now; I think the AWG platform has been a great success. I’d love to be involved in all the projects at once, but it’s something I do in my spare time.)
Returning to quantum computing, what I do is think about the physics behind decoherence and act accordingly to generate methods that reduce its impact, or apply these understandings so that it affects production less. I deeply appreciate that you shared my research, which is essentially a very simple proof of how quantum computing can be used in space research.
My experience in quantum computing started on May 5th, 2016, when I put my first algorithm into production at 1:49 AM with IBM. I tested a quantum neural network at Riken with a simple experiment in November 29, 2017, did some experiments with Rigetti on June 18th, 2019, built some circuits on the hybrid quantum computer at Lomonosov Moscow State University on May 20th, 2021, and in general, I test anything I have access to.
Later, a collaboration with Sandia was left pending, but communication was very slow. I took a small break here because I hadn’t yet decided where to work on some more complex ideas. I was very interested in a DARPA call for alternative computing (DARPA-PA-19-02), but I couldn’t participate because I’m not a U.S. citizen. (In fact, the first time I approached Sandia, I think I didn’t participate for the same reason, though I don’t remember well. The thing is, they contacted me some time later, but I remember they required a lot of information.) The point is, I feel very comfortable with you, and I think it’s time to do something more interesting in terms of quantum computing; I just need to properly structure how I would do it.