BSc_thesis: Efficiently representing radio astronomy uv-data in qubits

Is Quantum Computing viable for radio astronomy?

Research questions

• Considering that naive representation of radio visibility data is wasteful in qubits, what is a more efficient way to represent such data in a quantum computer?
• How to effectively turn radio visibility data into an astronomical image?

Learning materials

Books and tutorials

• QisKit textbook
• PennyLane demos
• Loading Classical Data into a Quantum Computer
• Data re-uploading for a universal quantum classifier
• Data re-uploading tutorial
• QFT tutorial - Qiskit
• MeasurementSet description for LOFAR
• SDP to CSP Mid Interface Control Document

Publications

• Commodity compute and data-transport system design in modern large-scale distributed radio telescopes. Chris Broekema's PhD thesis
• Efficiently representing radio astronomy uv-data in qubits. Roman Ilic's BSc thesis

Tools

• QisKit
• Pennylane