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Tech. Note: Gates, States, and Circuits
Notes on the circuit model of quantum computing. Currently mostly an exposition on the menagerie of quantum gates.
Preprint: Measuring Analytic Gradients of General Quantum Evolution with the Stochastic Parameter Shift Rule
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…
Article: Two-Qubit Circuit Depth and the Monodromy Polytope
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...
Journal of Lost Papers: On the divergence between two distributions and the probability of misclassification of several decision rules
The (virtual) Journal of Lost Papers: Article 001
Tech. Note: On the Weyl chamber of canonical non-local 2-qubit gates
The Weyl chamber of canonical non-local 2-qubit gates. Papercraft meets quantum computing. Print, cut, fold, and paste.
The Crooks Fluctuation Theorem on Man Like Mobeen
The Crooks Fluctuation Theorem gets a shout-out on BBC’s Man Like Mobeen.
Preprint: Thermodynamic Computing
A workshop report proposing a united, physically grounded, computational paradigm centered on thermodynamics.
News: APS Fellow
Honored to have been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society, “for the discovery of the Crooks Fluctuation Theorem linking nanoscale fluctuations f...
WebLogo 3.7.4 Released
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: Gradients and the Parameter Shift Rule
QuantumFlow v0.9.0: Adds evaluation of gradients of parameterized quantum circuits using the middle out algorithm, and creation of circuits for evaluation o...
Preprint: Gradients of parameterized quantum gates using the parameter-shift rule and gate decomposition
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...
Tech. Note: Gates, States, and Circuits
Notes on the circuit model of quantum computing. Currently mostly an exposition on the menagerie of quantum gates on 2-qubits.
Preprint: Fixed-Depth Two-Qubit Circuits and the Monodromy Polytope
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...
Tech. Note: On the Weyl chamber of canonical non-local 2-qubit gates
The Weyl chamber of canonical non-local 2-qubit gates. Papercraft meets quantum computing. Print, cut, fold, and paste.
Book: Field Guide to Continuous Probability Distributions, 1st Edition
Survey of over 170 continuous univariate probability distributions (and at least as many synonyms) organized into 20 families. First dead tree edition.
Article: Marginal and Conditional Second Laws of Thermodynamics
Gavin E. Crooks and Susanne Still, EPL 125:40005 (2019).
QuantumFlow v0.8: Now with TensorFlow 2.0 support
QuantumFlow v0.8.0: Automatic differentiation of quantum circuits and SGD training of quantum networks. Now with TensorFlow 2.0 backend.
WebLogo 3.7 Released
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...
Podcast: Catalyzing Computing — What is Thermodynamic Computing?
Episode 3 of the CCC Catalyzing Computing podcast, featuring a discussion on thermodynamic computing.