The team is structured along three main research areas of the vertical stack required to achieve our goal of demonstrating a quantum advantage: Applications, Software stack, and Hardware. The overall project will be overseen by the Executive Committee consisting of the lead PI, Chris Monroe, the leads of Hardware, Crystal Noel and Alex Kozhanov, the lead of Applications development, Peter Love, and the lead of the Software stack, Fred Chong
The Application area consists of Ken Brown, Peter Love, Aram Harrow, Alexey Gorshkov, Lex Kemper, Natalie Klco, Akimasa Miyake and Norm Yao. Love and Brown will focus their efforts on applications to quantum chemistry. Harrow will work towards expansions of approximate optimization algorithms. Gorshkov, Miyake, and Yao will develop applications in the broader area of quantum simulation applied to many-body and condensed matter physics. Klco will concentrate on lattice gauge theory algorithms applied to nuclear physics and beyond.
The Software stack development team consists of Ken Brown, Fred Chong, Jungsang Kim, Akimasa Miyake, Frank Mueller, and Huiyang Zhou. Kim will focus on the interface between the hardware and the software stack and Miyake will focus on the interface between applications and the software stack.
Hardware implementation will be performed by Ken Brown, Marko Cetina, Jungsang Kim, Alex Kozhanov, Norbert Linke, Chris Monroe, and Crystal Noel. This all-Duke team will codesign algorithms and applications on 4 existing quantum computer systems, while bringing up 3 additional systems over the course of the project.
