Speaker
Dr
Craig McNeile
(Plymouth University)
Description
We present a status report of our work on developing algorithms to use circuit based quantum computers to solve Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems. The QUBO problems are from two practical use cases. The first example is the optimal placement of wind turbines within a windfarm to maximize the power production (arXiv:2312.13123). The second QUBO problem we investigated is the Nurse scheduling problem and in this study we used Pauli Correlation encoding that allows bigger systems to be simulated. The Qiskit software from IBM was used on the HPC system at the University of Plymouth and the performance compared to classical algorithms in the Gurobi solver.
Author
Dr
Craig McNeile
(Plymouth University)
