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Lots to built upon. It is painful to work in the era of utility scale "augmented NISQ" we live in - but we are up to the challenge because lessons from theory cannot be the only guidance. Lots of QPU hours to burn. Lot of noise to tame. No pain no gain. Even if reliable advantage is not behind the corner, with every sweat drop we learn something valuable. We are far past running toy problems. More discussions on these general considerations at the IEEE QCE24 "The Next NISQ Phase" Panel: qce.quantum.ieee.org/2024/pr…

But it is more general than that! You don’t need dual rail (any k-hot work), you don’t need qubits (qudits work) and the theory is formulated very generally for Lindblads in analogy to decoherent free subspaces. Work sponsored by @sqmscenter 3/3

1.    Uniformly Decaying Subspaces for Quantum Computation meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR… 2.    Design and execution of quantum circuits using tens of superconducting qubits and thousands of gates for dense Ising optimization problems meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR… 3.    Floquet Codes on Non-Trivalent Lattices meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR… 4.    Surrogate Optimization for Quantum Circuits meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR… 5.    Extracting and evaluating performance of NISQ Optimization experiments: beyond angle-parameter setting meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR… 6.    Scrambling of algebras in open quantum systems meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR… 7.    Benchmarking Hard Ising Instances with Energy Scrambling meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR… 8.    Classical and Quantum Distributed Algorithms for the Survivable Network Design Problems meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR… 9.    Effective quantum volume, fidelity and computational cost of noisy quantum processing experiments meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR….  Scrambling and operator entanglement in local non-Hermitian quantum systems[SG1] meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR… 11.  Variational quantum optimization with qubit-efficient encoding of problems[SG2] meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR… 12. On Penalty Functions for Variational Quantum Algorithms meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR… 13. A look at the truths and misconceptions of the variational quantum eigensolver and the implications of overparameterization meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR… 14. The quantum algorithmic reach of a high-Q radio frequency cavity meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR… (edited)