Prof Francesco Petruccione
Author's posts
Feb 13
Quantum computing? How about kwantumberekening?
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 Afrikaans …
Feb 06
Four new preprints
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
Quantum @SUN welcomes Prof Uwe Jaekel
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
Quantum Unconference
It was great to have some of my UKZN students visiting in Stellenbosch and join the local team.
Oct 10
Quantum tunnelling in the context of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection
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
Dr Graeme Pleasance joins Quantum@SUN
We are very happy to welcome Graeme Pleasance as a PostDoc at Stellenbosch University. Graeme joined us on Monday 9 September 2022.
Sep 16
Machine learning for excitation energy transfer dynamics
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
Compact quantum kernel-based binary classifier
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
Measure of invertible dynamical maps under convex combinations of noninvertible dynamical maps
The latest paper with Vinayak Jagadish and R. Srikanth was just published in Physical Review A.
May 29
Prof Francesco Petruccione joined SU
Prof Francesco Petruccione joined Stellenbosch University on 1 May 2022.