patrickhuembeli/cohortproject_2020

Open collaboration of the Quantum Bootcamp 2020

Quantum Bootcamp Cohort Project 2020

The 2020 Cohort Project is an online collaboration bringing together founders in a series of open-source challenges. During the four-week bootcamp, founders will form teams to compete and collaborate on a set of challenges designed to engage science, technology, and business founders in problems related to quantum entrepreneurship. This year's challenges will focus on Quantum Chemistry.

Goals:

• Technical: To calculate low-energy quantum properties of some small molecules, identifying the strengths and weaknesses of various modern approaches.
• Business: To disseminate the results of the collaboration in an open access format accessible to all quantum entrepreneurs; to identify value propositions in the various technical approaches.

Project Legacy:

Each week your team will fork this repository to your own GitHub account to work on the challenges. At the end of the week you will issue a pull request. CDL will choose one team's work to merge into the main upstream repository, where it will become part of the legacy of the 2020 Boot Camp.

Weekly Challenges

• Week 1: Reconstructing a quantum state from data using Machine Learning
• Week 2: Preparing an electronic structure groundstate on quantum hardware using VQE.
• Week 3: Studying molecular rotational and vibronic properties.
• Week 4: Solving molecular chemistry using quantum and classical annealing.

Reading:

• Review: Quantum Chemistry in the Age of Quantum Computing: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.09976
• Begin your project with CDL_2020_docs.pdf