Bilkent University will be a partner in the project FoQaCiA “Foundations of quantum computational advantage” funded by the EC within the Digital Horizon Europe calls: DATA, DIGITAL-EMERGING and HUMAN (HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-23).
Dr. Cihan Okay from the Mathematics Department of Bilkent University will be the Principal Investigator in the project FoQaCiA which focuses on expanding the theoretical basis for the design of quantum algorithms. The success of quantum computing critically depends on advances at the most fundamental level. Large-scale investment in quantum implementations will only pay off if they can draw on additional foundational insights and ideas. While several powerful quantum algorithms are known, the basic techniques are few and far between. Largely, it remains to be discovered how to harness the quantum for computation systematically.
Researchers will study four areas of quantum phenomenology:
1. Quantum contextuality, non-classicality, and quantum advantage;
2. The complexity of classical simulation of quantum computation;
3. Arithmetic of quantum circuits;
4. The efficiency of fault-tolerant quantum computation.
The project has 11 partners, 7 in Europe and 4 in Canada. It was a specific call for collaborative projects between Europe and Canada in quantum computation.
Participating institutions
1 (Coordinator) International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) Portugal
2. Stockholms Universitet (STU) Sweden
3. Universidad de Sevilla (USE) Spain
4. Universidad de Granada (UGR) Spain
5. Bilkent Universitesi (BU) Turkey
6. University College London (UCL) United Kingdom
7. Uniwersytet Gda´nski (UGD) Poland
8. University of British Columbia (UBC) Canada
9. Simon Fraser University (SFU) Canada
10. University of Ottawa (UOT) Canada
11. University of Waterloo (UWA) Canada