Quantum physicist, software tinkerer. Likes writing documentation. Director of Product at @XanaduAI. Views are my own.

Toronto, Ontario
Joined December 2018
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One day @llvmorg will be quantum... But what does that look like? Well, @3rdquantization gives a glimpse into what it might look like! 🔗🎦⤵️
NEW TALK ALERT: How Do We Make LLVM Quantum? Listen to the wonderful Josh Izaac of Xanadu/PennyLane explain Why you don’t need to be a quantum physicist to build the programming stack of the future... #quantum #llvm
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This year’s @IEEEQuantumWeek covers more #QuantumComputing #Software topics than ever before (in keynotes, technical presentations, workshops, etc.). Obviously, we are loving that! 😉 And we are happy to contribute to that.🙂 1/4 #IEEEQuantumWeek #QCE2024
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Huge thanks to @PennyLaneAI and @DWierichs for showcasing our results! Amazing and lightning fast as always! If you missed the paper, you can find it here: arxiv.org/abs/2409.01706
Last week, Angrisani et al. showed that a classical simulation technique can efficiently estimate expectation values of many parametrized quantum circuits, on average across parameters. This week, we have a demo: pennylane.ai/qml/demos/tutor…
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🙌 We are excited to see many of you next week in Montreal at IEEE Quantum Week! Join us with @XanaduAI , @ORNL, and @awscloud to discuss Quantum Software 2.0: Enabling Large-scale and Performant Quantum Computing: lnkd.in/gAemeX9T
Heading to @IEEEQuantumWeek, and wondering: is our software ready to run meaningful algorithms on quantum computers? Join co-organizers from @ORNL @XanaduAI @awscloud and @unitaryfund for a workshop on Quantum Software 2.0 to discuss next-gen quantum software sites.google.com/view/quantu…
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At IEEE Quantum Week this year, we're organizing a workshop by people working on quantum software to discuss the problems we are trying to solve, and what people are exploring when it comes to next generation quantum software ideas and architectures: sites.google.com/view/quantu…
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Excited to receive our @NVIDIA DGX supercomputer powered by NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips ⚡ We can't wait to integrate this amazing tech into PennyLane and Lightning!
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Incredible work by @Qottmann writing a demo on a paper just a few days after it was released
Shallow quantum circuits are provably powerful, yet training them can be difficult. @RobertHuangHY et al overcome this obstacle with a powerful new tool, circuit sewing with local inversions. If you don’t have time to read 88 pages, @Qottmann showcases these techniques in our latest demo: pennylane.ai/qml/demos/tutor… The full paper by @RobertHuangHY, @lyc1178, @JarrodMcclean, @Isaac__kim, @AnuragAnshu4, Michael Broughton, and Zeph Landau can be found here: arxiv.org/abs/2401.10095
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Shallow quantum circuits are provably powerful, yet training them can be difficult. @RobertHuangHY et al overcome this obstacle with a powerful new tool, circuit sewing with local inversions. If you don’t have time to read 88 pages, @Qottmann showcases these techniques in our latest demo: pennylane.ai/qml/demos/tutor… The full paper by @RobertHuangHY, @lyc1178, @JarrodMcclean, @Isaac__kim, @AnuragAnshu4, Michael Broughton, and Zeph Landau can be found here: arxiv.org/abs/2401.10095
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Josh Izaac retweeted
Why we need quantum error correction ⚛️👿
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Josh Izaac retweeted
🤩🚀Time to announce more #ElevateFest2023 speakers! Let’s welcome these industry trailblazers to the Elevate Festival stages. We cannot wait to hear from them at Canada’s #Tech + #Innovation Festival. Join us this Sept. 26-28. Learn more: bit.ly/416vMxM #ElevateTechCA
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Josh Izaac retweeted
Want to know how to optimize quantum circuits at lightning speed? ⚡ In a new preprint, @josephbowles_, @DWierichs and @chae_yeun_park show how some classes of circuits can be optimized as fast as classical neural networks. arxiv.org/abs/2306.14962
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Big news from @IBMResearch: running useful quantum algorithms on 127 noisy qubits How did they do this without noise raining on the parade? 🌧️ How close are we to tackling truly important problems? 🎯 Get all the details in this demo from @Qottmann pennylane.ai/qml/demos/tutor…
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Well, I hope I haven't put myself out of a job... In a new paper with collaborators from @QuantinuumQC, @NPL and @EPFL_en we prove that the cost function of many* noisy variational #quantum algorithms can be simulated classically😱 arxiv.org/abs/2306.05400 scirate.com/arxiv/2306.05400
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Josh Izaac retweeted
ZX-calculus looks so much better hand drawn. Check out this @PennyLaneAI tutorial. pennylane.ai/qml/demos/tutor…
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Get your popcorn ready, we're going live with @AWSonAir 🎬 🍿 @XanaduAI Quantum Scientist @Qottmann joins @awscloud @jordsull to show us how to run pulse-level circuits on @QueraComputing‘s Aquila device using Braket and PennyLane. 📆 Friday, June 2nd at 12 PM Pacific Time
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Earlier this year, we launched Catalyst: JIT compilation for hybrid quantum programs🚀 Want to take a deeper dive into the technical details? You're in luck! Catalyst software developer David Ittah will be presenting today at the Open MLIR Meeting👇 discourse.llvm.org/t/open-ml…
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Last week we launched a beta version of Catalyst: quantum just-in-time compilation: xitter.cf/PennyLaneAI/status/163… In this thread by Josh Izaac (@3rdquantization), learn what Catalyst is, why we built it, and our thoughts on the future of quantum programming. 1/14
We’re giving you a peek behind the curtain at our latest project 👀 Meet Catalyst — the next-generation compilation backend for programming quantum computers. jax.jit, but quantum. Be first in the know and read our technical blog👇 pennylane.ai/blog/2023/03/in…
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Josh Izaac retweeted
We’re giving you a peek behind the curtain at our latest project 👀 Meet Catalyst — the next-generation compilation backend for programming quantum computers. jax.jit, but quantum. Be first in the know and read our technical blog👇 pennylane.ai/blog/2023/03/in…
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Josh Izaac retweeted
#QHack2023 Speaker 🎤 Join Josh Izaac (@3rdquantization) for a talk on: "The Future of Quantum Programming" Monday Feb 13 at 1 PM ET twitch.tv/qhack Sign up today at qhack.ai
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