First Place at MIT's Quantum Hackathon!

We’re THRILLED to announce that under the leadership of Alan Bidart and Miles Miller-Dickson, a 5-member Brown team took away FIRST PRIZE at MIT’s Interdisciplinary Quantum Information Science and Engineering (iQuISE) Competition (https://www.iquise.mit.edu/)!

This year, there were 420 in-person participants (the largest iteration of the competition so far) which were split in groups of 5 across 6 different challenges. The winning project was based on creating quantum compilation strategies for zoned neutral atom architectures for quantum computation. In other words, optimizing how high-level quantum algorithms get run on specific architectures at the physical instruction level—i.e. move these neutral atoms there, apply an entangling operation, then move them back here and apply this rotation operation to only one of the two, etc.