Abstract:

Dynamic Circuits are quantum circuits that incorporate mid-circuit measurements, classical calculations based on these measurement results and feed-forward operations, ie quantum gates controlled on those classical outcomes. This can help overcome current limitations of real hardware as it allows to trade off circuit depth and width. Dynamic circuits offer new opportunities for quantum error correction, quantum simulation, quantum machine learning applications and much more.

In this talk I want to focus on the advantages that they can already bring today for creating long-range entanglement, but also the current limitations and obstacles that we need to overcome before we can deploy the full potential of dynamic circuits.

Bio:

Elisa Bäumer is a research scientist at IBM Research - Zurich, where she currently explores measurement-based quantum computation as well as error mitigation techniques. She received her PhD from ETH in quantum information theory in 2022. Next to her research, she is engaged in outreach activities such as providing lectures and hands-on workshops for students, developers and researchers with various backgrounds, as well as mentoring hackathons.