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<span style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14.666666984558105px;orphans:auto;widows:auto;display:inline !important">This is an announcement of Jonathan Baker's Dissertation Defense.</span><br style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14.666666984558105px;orphans:auto;widows:auto">
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<span style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14.666666984558105px;orphans:auto;widows:auto;display:inline !important">Candidate: Jonathan Baker</span><br style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14.666666984558105px;orphans:auto;widows:auto">
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<span style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14.666666984558105px;orphans:auto;widows:auto;display:inline !important">Date: Thursday, September 15, 2022</span><br style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14.666666984558105px;orphans:auto;widows:auto">
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<span style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14.666666984558105px;orphans:auto;widows:auto;display:inline !important">Remote Location:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/97698179037?pwd=Zit1a2hRTzh4cjJPTGdxRXptaEtLdz09" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14.666666984558105px;orphans:auto;widows:auto">https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/97698179037?pwd=Zit1a2hRTzh4cjJPTGdxRXptaEtLdz09</a><br style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14.666666984558105px;orphans:auto;widows:auto">
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<span style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14.666666984558105px;orphans:auto;widows:auto;display:inline !important">Title: Architectural Design for Emerging Quantum Technologies</span><br style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14.666666984558105px;orphans:auto;widows:auto">
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<span style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14.666666984558105px;orphans:auto;widows:auto;display:inline !important">Abstract: Despite its relative infancy, there are a number of emerging quantum technologies for quantum computation,
and it is unclear which will be the clear winner. Evaluation of these technologies at the architectural level, far beyond the small-scale prototypes of 1 to 2 qubits, is critical to producing viable systems capable of executing both near and long-term applications
effectively. In order to fairly evaluate new hardware platforms, it is vital to develop technology-specific optimizations and compilation frameworks, pushing hardware closer to its fundamental limits rather than being hindered by ineffective software. Ultimately,
our goal is to decide whether or not proposed technologies are able to scale efficiently into the future. Central questions in platform evaluation can be roughly categorized into three themes: 1. Does this technology support fast and economical program execution.
2 Can this technology produce consistent and high-quality program outputs? 3. Does this technology fit the requirements of practical applications now and/or in the future?</span><br style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14.666666984558105px;orphans:auto;widows:auto">
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<span style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14.666666984558105px;orphans:auto;widows:auto;display:inline !important">In this thesis, I explore the design, optimization, and evaluation of a variety of competing quantum technologies
which are each vital when deciphering good candidates for scalable quantum computation, even in its very early stages. This manifests as several case studies serving as examples of a much larger, fundamental architectural questions. First, we consider what
are the right abstractions for a quantum computing system by exploring the use of multivalued quantum logic to better make use of hardware capabilities. Second, we consider architectural trade-off spaces by considering neutral atom hardware. Third, we consider
application-guided architectural design, evaluating how technology specific architectures can be designed to best fit target applications, like error correction codes. We examine the use of localized memory to enable virtualization of error corrected logical
qubits. Finally, we explore a variety of technology specific (and agnostic) compilation optimizations to push proposed architectures and hardwares to their limits to best evaluate their ability to scale beyond prototypes and support large scale applications.</span><br style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14.666666984558105px;orphans:auto;widows:auto">
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<span style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14.666666984558105px;orphans:auto;widows:auto;display:inline !important">Advisors: Fred Chong</span><br style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14.666666984558105px;orphans:auto;widows:auto">
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<span style="caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14.666666984558105px;orphans:auto;widows:auto;display:inline !important">Committee Members: Fred Chong, Ken Brown, Ali Javadi-Abhari, and Hank Hoffmann</span><br>
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