Nick Brønn PhD

Nick Brønn is a Global Strategic Research Development Lead at IBM Quantum in the IBM TJ Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. After earning his Ph.D. in experimental Condensed Matter Physics from the University of Illinois, Nick joined IBM Quantum in 2013, where he was responsible for developing and integrating quantum hardware, conducting experiments on superconducting qubits and deploying quantum systems over the cloud. Changing roles in 2020 to use open source software such as Qiskit to conduct “experiments” on quantum computing platforms, he enabled quantum computing practitioners to achieve the highest performance from IBM quantum systems through hands-on guidance of their partners, created digital content such as videos, tutorials, and documentation, and published peer-reviewed articles in the scientific literature with external collaborators. He now explores the intersection of quantum computing and topics of interest with researchers in the academic and public sectors.

 

Presentation Title:

Quantum-Centric Supercomputing: The Path to Useful Quantum Computing

Presentation Abstract:

A quantum advantage is a demonstration of a solution for a problem for which a quantum computer can provide a demonstrable improvement over any classical method and classical resources in terms of accuracy, runtime or cost requirements. Realizing near-term advantage will require progress in quantum-HPC integration. This talk will overview the HPC software stack to show how quantum compute resources fit into existing classical infrastructure and the types of programming models used for realizing advantage with HPC accelerated by quantum processors. Recent results using sample-based quantum diagonalization, a hybrid classical/quantum algorithm, demonstrate applications to chemistry and materials science and are compared to current best approximate classical methods. Finally, we outline how quantum error correction will deliver the full promise of fault-tolerant quantum computing at scale.