QCHALLenge Publications for QCE Conference 2024 in Montreal

(October 10, 2024/Garching) The QCHALLenge consortium was widely represented at the 5th Quantum Computing and Engineering Conference (QCE 2024, 15.09 – 20.09 in Montreal, Canada) and was able to present several publications. With the participation of BASF, Siemens, SAP, LMU and Aqarios, many interesting discussions with industry and research were held and valuable contacts were made. A tutorial by Jonas Stein (LMU) and Sebastian Feld (TU Delft) on simulation-based optimization-problems was also very well received. We are pleased to report on the following publications, among others, which will appear in the proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering in Sep. 2024:

• A.A. Awasthi, N. Kraus, F. Krellner, D. Zambrano, „Real World Application of Quantum-Classical Optimization for Production Scheduling”.
• C. Jones, N. Kraus, P. Bhardwaj, M. Adler, M. Schrödl-Baumann and D. Zambrano Manrique, “Benchmarking Quantum Models for Time-series Forecasting”.
• M. Zorn, J. Stein, P. Altmann, M. Kölle, C. Linnhoff-Popien and T. Gabor, “Cohesive Quantum Circuit Layer Construction with Reinforcement Learning”.
• M. Kölle, D. Seidl, M. Zorn, P. Altmann, J. Stein and T. Gabor, “Optimizing Variational Quantum Circuits Using Metaheuristic Strategies in Reinforcement Learning”. [arXiv:2408.01187.]
• J. Stein, J. Blenninger, D. Bucher, J. P. Eder, E. Çetiner, M. Zorn and C. Linnhoff-Popien, “CUAOA: A Novel CUDA-Accelerated Simulation Framework for the QAOA”. [arXiv:2407.13012.]
• T. Rohe, D. Schuman, J. Nüßlein, L. Sünkel, J. Stein and C. Linnhoff-Popien, “The Questionable Influence of Entanglement in Quantum Optimisation Algorithms”. [arXiv:2407.17204.]