QPARC-Challenge-2022

Congratulations to the Winners of QPARC Challenge 2022!

We hosted the Final Judgement on June 3. After much deliberation between judges, we're very excited to announce the winners of Chemistry Challenge and Information Challenge. Congratulations to both teams, kuchemQCL and CloudKite, and thank you others who submitted great projects. See you next quantum challenge!

Winners of Chemistry Challenge

• Team: kuchemQCL
  
• Team member:
  
  • NISHIO, Soichiro (DC3)
    
  • HINO, Kentaro (MC2)
    
  • UEDA, Koki (MC2)
    
  • MIYOKAWA, Katsuki (MC1)
    
  • TSUMURA, Masaya (MC1)
    
  • YOSHIDA, Takumi (MC1)
    
• Affiliation: Theoretical Chemistry Group, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
  
• Country: Japan
  
• Project: Designing complex molecular qubits by using QC simulator and relativistic quantum chemistry
  

Winners of Information Challenge

• Team: CloudKite
  
• Team member: Yunzhe Zheng
  
• Affiliation: Borregaard Group in TU Delft, in second year of MSc Applied Physics (Track Quantum Devices and Quantum Computing).
  
• Country: Netherlands
  
• Project: Improving VQE accuracy for H4 molecule with shot limits
  

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Overview of QPARC Challenge

QPARC Challenge is an international hackathon for students, engineers, scientists, and any others who learn quantum information and chemistry around the world.

From 6th to 22th of May, participants will solve challenges related to material development. On 29th May, finalists are selected for the next step and prepare for a presentation for the final judge. On 3rd June, final judgement is held and finalists give a presentation of their solutions, which is judged by industrial and academic experts. Winners will be awarded 10,000 USD in total (5,000 USD for each challenge) and Qamuy free license.

QPARC Challenge 2022
Qulacs
Youtube

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What is new about QPARC Challenge?

1. About QPARC

QPARC is a industrial consortiunm focusing on learning state-of-the-art quantum computer algorithm and exploring the potential industrial applications. With more than 50 companies participate in this consortium, we are activly working on learning new quantum algorithm and apply it to potential applications. QPARC homepage.

2. Challenges specific to your area of expertise

In QPARC Challenge, there are two types of challenges:

• Quantum Information Experts
• Quantum Chemistry Experts

You can choose a challenge that is related to your area of ex.epertise or you're interested in. Aims and evaluation criteria for each type are shown in a table below.

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Prizes

The winner of this challenge with a great project will receive a great prize! Regarding to monetary award, you can try both challenges so that you will have chance to get 10,000 USD!

1. Monetary award

• Quantum Information Experts : 5,000 USD
• Quantum Chemistry Experts : 5,000 USD

2. Qamuy free license

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Challenges

Here are overview of each challenge. For more infomation, please see Quantum Information Challenge and Quantum Chemistry Challenge

	Quantum Information Expert	Quantum Chemistry Expert
Challenge	What’s the best way to speed-up for a given chemical system & algorithm?	Which chemical system could be calculated most efficiently using a given algorithm?
Aim and expectation	VQE (Variational quantum eigensolver) is one of the most famous methods using NISQ devices to calculate quantum chemical problem. However, the problem is it takes huge time to get result due to the iterative character and the need for sampling during the parameter optimization process In this challenge, participants are expected to reduce the computational cost as much as possible for a given chemical system & algorithm. (e.g. use the methods like efficient circuit mapping or efficient parameter update)	In VQE calculation, depending on the ansatz, we can get several unique characteristics which classical computer usually doesn’t have such as The number of electron is not preserved and able to change throughout the reaction Spin multiplicity is not fixed and able to change throughout the reaction, and so on. In this challenge, participants are expected to select a chemical system where the unique characteristics of quantum is mostly enhanced and demonstrate the idea. (You can use our chemical calculation software “Qamuy” to do the demonstration)
Evaluation criteria	Total reduction of calculation time	Innovativeness of the system selection

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Schedule

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
					May 6, 17:00-18:30 (JST): Kick-off Event QPARC Challange 2022: Overview and Description - Tennin Yan Problem description of each challenge (Quantum Information Expert / Quantum Chemistry Expert) Evaluation criteria Awards, etc. Quantum Chemistry and Quantum Computer - Kosuke Mitarai Qamuy Tutorial - Andreas Thomasen
May 15, 23:59 (JST): 1st deadline of project submission Participants who fished their projects can submit by this date.
May 22, 23:59 (JST): 2nd (final) deadline of project submission End of free use period for Qamuy	May 23 - May 28: Evaluation phase					May 29: Announcement of finalists
					Jun 3, 17:00-20:00 (JST): Final Judgement Finalists make their presentations online.(about 10 min.)

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How to submit

To submit, simply open an Issue using this template summarizing your project. Specifically, this issue should contain:

1. Team name: Your team's name
2. Team members: Listup all members name
3. Applied challenge: Choose from Chemistry Challenge/Information Challenge. In addition, please label this GitHub issue with the challenge you applied.
4. Project Description: A brief description of your project (1-2 paragraphs).
5. Presentation: A link of presentation of your team’s hackathon project (e.g., video, jupyter notebook, slideshow, etc.).
6. Source code: A link to the final source code for your team's hackathon project (e.g., a GitHub repo).

*If you are applying for both Challenges, you must submit the two projects separately. For example, submit one project with Chemistry Challenge label, and another project with Information Challenge label.

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Tutorials

• Qulacs
• Qamuy
  • Documentation
  • Demo (Jupyter Notebook)
  • Demo (Youtube) *will be available on May 6
• Qiskit
  • Qiskit tutorials: Chemistry
  • Qiskit Nature Documentation
• Cirq
• Pennylane