Prof Francesco Petruccione
Author's posts
Feb 13
[:en]Quantum computing? How about kwantumberekening?[:]
[:en] Last week, Gerhard Woithe, who just joined the Group as an MSc student, started a project to translate the Wikipedia page for “Quantum computing” to Afrikaans. The page (still in progress) can be found at https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwantumberekening. In the process of doing so, we have, however, found that in many cases, there are no existing …
Feb 06
[:en]Four new preprints[:]
[:en]What a day: 4 preprints in the arXiv! Congratulations to Shivani Pillay, Ian David, Rowan Pellow-Jarman and Shane McFarthing for submitting their first preprints to the arXiv: Hybrid Genetic Optimisation for Quantum Feature Map Design R Pellow-Jarman, A Pillay, I Sinayskiy, F Petruccione Digital Simulation of Single Qubit Markovian Open Quantum Systems: A Tutorial , …
Feb 01
[:en]Quantum @SUN welcomes Prof Uwe Jaekel[:]
[:en]Prof Uwe Jaekel (Hochshule Koblenz, University of Applied Sciences) is visiting Stellenbosch University from 31 January to 5 February 2023. Prof Jaekel is one of the speakers at the 2023 CHPC-NITheCS Summer School on Theoretical and Computational Sciences. On Friday, 3 February, he will deliver a Colloquium on the topic ‘Solving nonlinear classification problems with a …
Dec 05
[:en]Quantum Unconference[:]
[:en] It was great to have some of my UKZN students visiting in Stellenbosch and join the local team.[:]
Oct 10
[:en]Quantum tunnelling in the context of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection[:]
[:en]The latest paper with Betony Adams, Ilya Sinayskiy and Rienk van Grondelle was published in Scientific Reports. Abstract: The SARS‐CoV‐2 pandemic has added new urgency to the study of viral mechanisms of infection. But while vaccines offer a measure of protection against this specific outbreak, a new era of pandemics has been predicted. In addition …
Sep 16
[:en]Dr Graeme Pleasance joins Quantum@SUN[:]
[:en]We are very happy to welcome Graeme Pleasance as a PostDoc at Stellenbosch University. Graeme joined us on Monday 9 September 2022.[:]
Sep 16
[:en]Machine learning for excitation energy transfer dynamics[:]
[:en]The latest paper with Kimara Naicker and Ilya Sinayskiy was just published in Physical Review Research. Abstract: A wellknown approach to describe the dynamics of an open quantum system is to compute the master equation evolving the reduced density matrix of the system. This approach plays an important role in describing excitation transfer through photosynthetic light …
Aug 05
[:en]Compact quantum kernel-based binary classifier[:]
[:en]My first paper with Stellenbosch University affiliation was published in Quantum Science and Technology. Abstract: Quantum computing opens exciting opportunities for kernel-based machine learning methods, which have broad applications in data analysis. Recent works show that quantum computers can efficiently construct a model of a classifier by engineering the quantum interference effect to carry out …
Aug 05
[:en]Measure of invertible dynamical maps under convex combinations of noninvertible dynamical maps[:]
[:en]The latest paper with Vinayak Jagadish and R. Srikanth was just published in Physical Review A. [:]
May 29
[:en]Prof Francesco Petruccione joined SU[:]
[:en]Prof Francesco Petruccione joined Stellenbosch University on 1 May 2022.[:]