Peter Johnson & VQE - Episode 18 [Hybrid]

<p>I had an excellent, thoroughly entertaining, and long chat with Peter Johnson from Zapata Computing. We got to talk a lot about VQE, quantum advantage, and new algorithms that try to squeeze performance out of quantum hardware.&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>Zapata Paper Announcement video (MUST WATCH): <a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=RifDO1zBYjI">https://youtube.com/watch?v=RifDO1zBYjI</a>&nbsp;</li> <li>arXiv link to paper: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09350">https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09350</a>&nbsp;</li> <li>A Quantum Festschrift for David Poulin: <a href="https://www.cifar.ca/cifarnews/2020/06/17/a-quantum-festschrift-for-david-poulin">https://www.cifar.ca/cifarnews/2020/06/17/a-quantum-festschrift-for-david-poulin</a>&nbsp;</li> <li>Qiskit blog about quantum advantage: <a href="https://medium.com/qiskit/this-proof-demonstrates-a-quantum-advantage-even-for-noisy-quantum-computers-b44a738801ad">https://medium.com/qiskit/this-proof-demonstrates-a-quantum-advantage-even-for-noisy-quantum-computers-b44a738801ad</a>&nbsp;</li> <li>QCN gather.town: <a href="https://gather.town/fh5g7HpuMejUUhSg/quantum-computing-now">https://gather.town/fh5g7HpuMejUUhSg/quantum-computing-now</a>&nbsp;</li> <li>Time zone converter for QCN Gather meetup: <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20200807T010000&amp;p1=tz_pt&amp;p2=1440">https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20200807T010000&amp;p1=tz_pt&amp;p2=1440</a>&nbsp;</li> <li>My Zapata blog post on Why Workflows? <a href="https://www.zapatacomputing.com/quantum-enabled-workflows/">https://www.zapatacomputing.com/quantum-enabled-workflows/</a>&nbsp;</li> <li>Sound effects obtained from <a href="https://www.zapsplat.com">https://www.zapsplat.com</a>&nbsp;</li> <li><a href="https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen">https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen</a>/&nbsp;</li> <li><a href="mailto:1ethanhansen@protonmail.com">1ethanhansen@protonmail.com</a>&nbsp;</li> <li><a href="https://thequantumdaily.com/">https://thequantumdai