Luca Mondada
Interests
I am trying to improve on our current approaches to quantum circuit simplification. The circuit representation we use both for circuit design and optimisation poses indeed a few challenges. It can be hard – or unnatural – to squeeze a quantum primitive into a circuit: think of how a controlled unitary is decomposed into something unrecognisable in a typical universal gate set. On the user-facing design side, this might be patched by introducing new ad-hoc primitives as they are needed. On the optimisation side, however, this causes problems: it is very hard to resynthesise higher-level primitives from simpler ones, or to make use of ad-hoc primitives in a general way.
This means that we face difficulties in devising and using optimisation strategies that could leverage this higher-level structure. Beyond circuit optimisation performance, this will increasingly become an important issue if we wish to compile to architectures that might support more exotic gate sets than are currently typically available, such as multi-qubit operations on ion traps devices.
Biography
DPhil student at the University of Oxford and part-time Research Software Developer at Cambridge Quantum Computing. My research interests lie mainly in the areas of quantum circuit optimisation and near-term applications of differential programming to NISQ devices. I previously obtained a Distinction for his MSc in Mathematics and Foundation of Computer Science at Oxford and two BSc degrees in Physics and Computer Science at ETH Zürich.
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Selected Publications
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Exact Recovery for a Family of Community−Detection Generative Models
Luca Corinzia‚ Paolo Penna‚ Luca Mondada and Joachim M. Buhmann
In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory‚ ISIT 2019. Pages 415−419. 2019.
Details about Exact Recovery for a Family of Community−Detection Generative Models | BibTeX data for Exact Recovery for a Family of Community−Detection Generative Models | DOI (10.1109/ISIT.2019.8849311)
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Introduction to UniversalQCompiler
Raban Iten‚ Oliver Reardon−Smith‚ Luca Mondada‚ Ethan Redmond‚ Ravjot Kohli and Roger Colbeck
arXiv:1904.01072 [quant−ph]. 2019.
Details about Introduction to UniversalQCompiler | BibTeX data for Introduction to UniversalQCompiler
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Electroencephalography as implicit communication channel for proximal interaction between humans and robot swarms
Luca Mondada‚ Mohammad Karim and Francesco Mondada
In Swarm Intelligence. Vol. 10. December, 2016.
Details about Electroencephalography as implicit communication channel for proximal interaction between humans and robot swarms | BibTeX data for Electroencephalography as implicit communication channel for proximal interaction between humans and robot swarms | DOI (10.1007/s11721-016-0127-0)