Solving Differential Equations on Quandela Cloud

Event

Quantum Computing Meetup

Date

August 3, 2023

In this meetup talk, I explore how photonic quantum computers work and use Quandela’s Percival framework to build a circuit for solving a differential equation. I introduce the optical components behind these systems, including beam splitters and phase shifters, before moving into a hands-on demonstration.

The Jupyter Notebook demo combines a quantum circuit with classical optimization to minimize a loss function, using both simulation and Quandela Cloud hardware. I also discuss the developer experience: hardware availability, API limitations, and the workarounds needed to run an experiment on a real quantum processor.