POSE: PHASE II: Mitiq OSE: Increasing and sustaining the open-source ecosystem for cross-platform quantum error mitigation

uni Fund的Nathan Shammah博士和William Zeng博士获得了技术、创新和伙伴关系理事会（TIP）的开源生态系统（POSE）项目的奖励，以围绕量子误差缓解工具Mitiq发展开源生态系统（OSE）。Drs。Shammah和Zeng将扩展他们在量子错误缓解领域的研究，围绕Python库Mitiq开发可持续的OSE和基础设施，这是一个跨平台编译器，使程序能够更健壮地应对噪声中等规模量子（NISQ）硬件设备中存在的错误。围绕Mitiq的OSE的增长将提高当前可用量子计算机的性能，并将加速学术界、政府和工业界对这一关键技术的用例开发。Shammah和Zeng将围绕开源Python库Mitiq开发一个OSE，这是一个编译器，可以使程序对量子计算机中的错误更加健壮。由于量子计算机具有很高的错误率，因此对错误鲁棒性进行编译对于有用的应用至关重要。在其他应用中，Mitiq已被用于更好地模拟相关材料，提高量子系统脱离平衡时演化的分辨率，并增加量子处理器的有效量子体积——这是一个关键的基准。Mitiq OSE将吸引并支持一个由用户和贡献者组成的大型社区，这个社区将超越今天的核心开发人员和初始用户群。这种扩展将包括产品管理、基础设施工程、社区管理、治理和用户成功。具体而言，该项目将侧重于以用户为主导的数字接口和资源开发，加快量子误差缓解的进展，与新兴硬件、依赖关系和相关软件包的兼容性，建立标准和基准，以及传播结果和软件集成。通过构建Mitiq OSE， Shammah和Zeng将增加对基于软件的技术的开放访问，这些技术可以降低程序和协议的噪声敏感性，加速量子计算用户对前沿研究的采用，并在一个重要的新行业中为所有用户改进量子技术。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Dr. Nathan Shammah and Dr. William Zeng of Unitary Fund are supported by an award from the Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) program in the Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP) to grow the open-source ecosystem (OSE) around the quantum error mitigation tool Mitiq. Drs. Shammah and Zeng will expand on their research in the field of quantum error mitigation to develop a sustainable OSE and infrastructure around the Python library Mitiq, a cross-platform compiler that enables programs to be more robust to the errors present in Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) hardware devices. The growth of an OSE around Mitiq will improve the performance of currently available quantum computers for users everywhere, and will accelerate the development of use cases for this critical technology across academia, government, and industry.Drs. Shammah and Zeng will develop an OSE around the open-source Python library Mitiq, a compiler that makes programs more robust to errors in quantum computers. Because quantum computers have high error rates, compiling for error robustness is critical for useful applications. Among other applications, Mitiq has been used to better simulate correlated materials, to increase the resolution of the time evolution of quantum systems out of equilibrium, and to increase the effective quantum volume of quantum processors - a key benchmark. The Mitiq OSE will attract and support a large community of users and contributors that extends beyond today’s core developers and initial user base. This expansion will include product management, infrastructure engineering, community management, governance, and user success. Specifically, this project will focus on user-led development of digital interfaces and resources, accelerated advancement in quantum error mitigation, compatibility with emerging hardware, dependencies and related software packages, establishment of standards and benchmarks, and dissemination of results and software integration. By building the Mitiq OSE, Shammah and Zeng will increase open access to software based techniques that reduce noise sensitivities of programs and protocols, accelerating the adoption of cutting edge research by quantum computing users and improving quantum technology for all users across a significant new industry.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.