Beyond-classical Machine learning and AI for Quantum Physics

This project aims to identify quantum many-body problems with significant advantages over classical methods and develop new quantum machine learning techniques to solve them effectively.

Subsidie
€ 1.995.289
2024

Projectdetails

Introduction

A primary challenge in quantum computing (QC) is finding its ideal application, i.e., an essential problem with the largest advantage of quantum over classical computing. To resolve it, I propose to focus on the notoriously complex area of quantum many-body systems.

Project Objectives

This project will characterize which quantum many-body problems, in various physics domains, allow for significant quantum advantages even over any future machine learning, data-driven methods. By exploiting my pioneering research in this area, I will also develop new quantum machine learning (QML) methods to solve them better than classically possible, using a two-stage approach.

Theoretical Foundations

In the first stage, we will develop the project's theoretical foundations. My recent works on quantum-over-classical learning advantages provide the starting points for the development of new mathematical machinery which facilitates the proving of quantum advantages in selected many-body settings.

In parallel, building on circuit-decomposition methods I recently developed, we will elucidate the role of quantum phenomena in QML in order to design new QML methods which can be better tuned to quantum many-body settings.

Application and Implementation

In the second stage, we will identify suitable concrete quantum many-body problems with substantial real-world interest, apply the newly designed high-performing quantum learners, and formally prove learning advantages using the developed theoretical machinery.

Expected Impact

The positive results of the project will resolve some of the main open problems in QML and will have a major impact on both QC theory and aspects of foundations and applications of QML.

Areas of Focus

In our search for the best application, we will consider many-body problems from diverse areas of physics:

  1. Condensed matter
  2. High-energy
  3. Quantum control

The project will therefore also establish new bridges between quantum many-body physics, machine learning, and quantum computing.

Financiële details & Tijdlijn

Financiële details

Subsidiebedrag€ 1.995.289
Totale projectbegroting€ 1.995.289

Tijdlijn

Startdatum1-4-2024
Einddatum31-3-2029
Subsidiejaar2024

Partners & Locaties

Projectpartners

  • UNIVERSITEIT LEIDENpenvoerder

Land(en)

Netherlands

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