RQC Seminar

231st RQC Seminar

• Speaker

  Mr. Utkarsh Azad
  ( Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc., Canada )

• Date

  16:00-17:00 (4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.), September 17, 2025 Friday)

• Venue

  Hybrid(ZOOM・ Wako Main Research Building 3F 345-347 Seminar Room / 研究本館3階 345-347 セミナー室 (C01))

• Title

  From MaxCut to CFD: Solving Problems Quantumly Using Ising Solvers and Gate-Based Quantum Computers

• Inquiries

  norilab_rqc_assist[at]ml.riken.jp

Abstract
This talk will cover two distinct challenging computational problems. The first part investigates combinatorial optimization, focusing on the MaxCut problem solved using coherent Ising machines (CIMs), a type of analog Ising solver. We study the performance of its classical and quantum models along with the role of noise on its solution-finding ability. The second part addresses computational fluid dynamics (CFD), where we apply block-encoding techniques on d-diagonal matrices, a structure frequently arising in two-dimensional lid-driven cavity flow simulations. Together with these two directions, we try to aim to present quantum-classical methods for solving problems across domains.