I-Corp: A quantum and classic bridge

这个I-Corps项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力是开发广泛适用于积极探索量子解决方案以解决其业务问题的各种行业的技术。该应用包括金融服务、制药、航空航天、运输和化学工业。量子计算仍处于起步阶段，目前的设备功能不允许客户充分测试将量子算法纳入其业务的潜力。混合平台从根本上提高了这些行业的计算能力，以更好地理解用例以及量子计算提高其底线的程度。这项技术使量子硬件提供商能够为客户提供更多服务。事实上，大多数主要的量子硬件提供商也是主要的经典云计算提供商。这项技术是现有经典基础设施和新兴量子堆栈之间的桥梁。量子计算的瓶颈成本是硬件开发成本。该技术是一种低成本、高影响力的解决方案，可显著扩展量子服务。I-Corps项目基于技术开发，有助于弥合量子计算需求与用于运行量子算法的现有不足解决方案之间的差距。量子计算已经被提出作为一种新的范例，它有可能提供超过经典计算范例的计算优势。然而，执行量子算法的两种现有解决方案受到明显的挑战。首先，使用经典计算机模拟量子算法并不具有规模。其次，量子计算机必须满足高要求的硬件尺寸和质量要求，以支持实际应用。该技术是一种软件工具链，将量子和经典计算结合到一个协调的计算平台中。这个三步过程包括（1）将一个大型量子程序切割成较小的片段，（2）用量子计算机运行较小的片段，以及（3）使用经典的高性能计算机重建结果。总体而言，该技术利用经典张量网络技术和量子计算，使量子程序的执行大大超出了现有独立解决方案的能力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is the development of technology that applies broadly to various industries actively exploring quantum solutions for their business problems. This application includes the financial services, pharmaceuticals, aerospace, transportation, and chemicals industries. Quantum computing is still at its infancy and the current device capabilities do not allow customers to adequately test the potential of incorporating quantum algorithms into their business. The hybrid platform fundamentally increases the computing capabilities of such industries to establish a better understanding of the use cases and the extent to which quantum computing improves their bottom line. This technology enables quantum hardware providers to offer more services to their customers. In fact, most major quantum hardware providers are also major classical cloud computing providers. This technology serves as the bridge between the existing classical infrastructure and the emerging quantum stack. The bottleneck cost for quantum computing is the hardware development cost. This technology is a low-cost, high-impact solution to significantly scale quantum services.This I-Corps project is based on the development of technology that helps bridge the gap between quantum computing needs and the existing, insufficient solutions used to run quantum algorithms. Quantum computing has been proposed as a new paradigm that has the potential to offer computing advantages over the classical computing paradigm. However, the two existing solutions to execute quantum algorithms suffer from apparent challenges. First, simulations of quantum algorithms using classical computers do not scale. Second, quantum computers must satisfy highly demanding hardware size and quality requirements to support practical applications. This technology is a software toolchain that combines quantum and classical computing into a concerted computing platform. The 3-step process consists of (1) cutting a large quantum program into smaller pieces, (2) running the smaller pieces with quantum computers, and (3) reconstructing the results using classical high-performance computers. Overall, the technology leverages classical tensor network techniques and quantum computing to enable the execution of quantum programs significantly beyond the capabilities of the existing stand-alone solutions.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.