The Parameter Shift Rule is a cunning, recently developed method for evaluation gradients of quantum circuits on a quantum computer. But it has two problems…
For a native gate set which includes all single-qubit gates, we apply results from symplectic geometry to analyze the spaces of two-qubit programs accessible...
The (virtual) Journal of Lost Papers: Article 001
The Weyl chamber of canonical non-local 2-qubit gates. Papercraft meets quantum computing. Print, cut, fold, and paste.
The Crooks Fluctuation Theorem gets a shout-out on BBC’s Man Like Mobeen.
A workshop report proposing a united, physically grounded, computational paradigm centered on thermodynamics.
Honored to have been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society, “for the discovery of the Crooks Fluctuation Theorem linking nanoscale fluctuations f...
Major server upgrade. The old server was getting very old and crufty. WebLogo moved to a shiny new AWS instance, with up to date installations of linux, apac...
QuantumFlow v0.9.0: Adds evaluation of gradients of parameterized quantum circuits using the middle out algorithm, and creation of circuits for evaluation o...
The parameter-shift rule is an approach to measuring gradients of quantum circuits with respect to their parameters, which does not require ancilla qubits or...
Notes on the circuit model of quantum computing. Currently mostly an exposition on the menagerie of quantum gates on 2-qubits.
For a native gate set which includes all single-qubit gates, we apply results from symplectic geometry to analyze the spaces of two-qubit programs accessible...
The Weyl chamber of canonical non-local 2-qubit gates. Papercraft meets quantum computing. Print, cut, fold, and paste.
Survey of over 170 continuous univariate probability distributions (and at least as many synonyms) organized into 20 families. First dead tree edition.
Gavin E. Crooks and Susanne Still, EPL 125:40005 (2019).
QuantumFlow v0.8.0: Automatic differentiation of quantum circuits and SGD training of quantum networks. Now with TensorFlow 2.0 backend.
3.7 (2019-03-04) [Gavin Crooks] Refactor and cleanup code, removing python 2.7 support Extend API documentation WebLogo python package is now ‘webl...
Episode 3 of the CCC Catalyzing Computing podcast, featuring a discussion on thermodynamic computing.
Added Porter-Thomas, Epanechnikov, biweight, triweight, Libby-Novick, Gauss hypergeometric, confluent hypergeometric, Johnson-SU, and log-Cauchy distributions
The Weyl chamber of canonical non-local 2-qubit gates. Papercraft meets quantum computing. Print, cut, fold, and paste. (Should look like Fig. 4 of quant-p...
