[hpc-announce] Advances in Quantum Computing: Methods, Algorithms, and Systems Vol II - Special Issue

[Wisser, Grace]

CALL FOR PAPER Future Generation Computer Systems Special Issue
Advances in Quantum Computing: Methods, Algorithms, and Systems Vol II
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MOTIVATION AND SCOPE

Quantum computing (QC) is an emerging, potentially disruptive computational model gaining strong momentum in the scientific community. QC research covers multiple intertwined aspects, ranging from potential hardware design and different implementations and technologies to the quantum software stack, including compilers, high-level programming abstraction, tools, and quantum algorithms and applications. With the advent of the QC systems openly available to the scientific community and the first promising benchmarks showing quantum advantage, the effort towards practical, yet daunting, issues such as the hardware and software integration of QC systems into the HPC infrastructure, the QC acceleration of classical scientific and industrial applications and workflows (e.g., quantum chemistry and quantum simulations, drug discovery, computational fluid dynamics) intensified in the last few years, leading to several proposed approaches to harness the QC power.

>From a high-level point of view, the Quantum Processing Unit (QPU) can be seen as a specialized device to accelerate certain applications that exploit algorithmic formulations to use quantum state superposition, entanglement, quantum tunneling, or interference. QPUs can be deployed today as an accelerator for the first time in HPC systems. While extensive experience has been gained to operate and exploit other accelerators, such as GPUs that today provide the backbone of HPC systems, we face challenges fundamentally different from the past. These challenges include the usage of technologies, often requiring exceedingly low temperature and shielding, the need for interfacing the classical and quantum systems, the development of error correction algorithms, and quantum computer simulators to test the results of QC systems and QC real-world use cases and applications still in their infancy.

This special issue aims to collect influential contributions to address these challenges of quantum computing (QC). This special collection invites papers targeting the following topics:

*Integration of QC systems into HPC software and hardware infrastructure
*Large-scale HPC quantum computer simulators
*Tools for quantum applications, including compilers, runtimes, workflow managers, schedulers, and orchestrators
*Quantum algorithms and applications for solving scientific and engineering applications
*Quantum machine learning algorithms and applications
*Quantum data and quantum memories
*Quantum error correction codes
*Hybrid QC-HPC algorithms, applications, and workflows
*Performance modeling, analysis, and characterization of QC systems
*Quantum computer and cloud computing
*Quantum technologies for computation
*Characterization of quantum speed-up and supremacy
*Benchmarking of quantum systems
*Quantum Annealers: algorithms and applications

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GUEST EDITORS

Stefano Markidis
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
markidis at kth.se 

Michela Taufer
University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA
taufer at utk.edu 

Lucio Grandinetti
Università della Calabria, Italy
lucio.grandinetti at unical.it 

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IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for paper submission: February 28, 2025

Latest acceptance deadline for all papers: April 30, 2025

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MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

The FGCS’s submission system (Editorial Manager®) will be open for submissions to our Special Issue from August 15, 2024. When submitting your manuscript, please select the article type VSI: Quantum Comp II.

All submissions deemed suitable by the editors to be sent for peer review will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Once your manuscript is accepted, it will go into production to be published in the special issue.

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MANUSCRIPT FORMATTING GUIDELINES

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Grace Wisser
Assistant Director, Global Computing Lab
Assistant to Editor in Chief, FGCS Journal

Submitted on behalf of:
Michela Taufer, Ph.D.
Editor in Chief, Future Generation Computer Systems Journal