Quantum computing scientist - Senior Lecturer and an SQA Fellow at UTS - Google Quantum AI - she/her

Maria (Marika) Kieferova

Teaching

I teach UTS 41076 Methods in Quantum Computing - Spring 2023. All information about the class can be found here.

Publications

Quantum Generative Training Using Rényi Divergences

Maria Kieferova, Carlos Ortiz Marrero, Nathan Wiebe

Randomizing multi-product formulas for improved Hamiltonian simulation

Paul K Faehrmann, Mark Steudtner, Richard Kueng, Maria Kieferova, Jens Eisert

Entanglement induced barren plateaus

Carlos Ortiz Marrero, Mária Kieferová, Nathan Wiebe

Novel Technique for Robust Optimal Algorithmic Cooling

Sadegh Raeisi, Mária Kieferová, Michele Mosca

Quantum Chemistry in the Age of Quantum Computing

Yudong Cao, Jonathan Romero, Jonathan P Olson, Matthias Degroote, Peter D Johnson, Mária Kieferová, Ian D Kivlichan, Tim Menke, Borja Peropadre, Nicolas PD Sawaya, Sukin Sim, Libor Veis, Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Simulating the dynamics of time-dependent Hamiltonians with a truncated Dyson series

Maria Kieferova, Artur Scherer, Dominic Berry

Improved techniques for preparing eigenstates of fermionic Hamiltonians

Dominic W Berry, Mária Kieferová, Artur Scherer, Yuval R Sanders, Guang Hao Low, Nathan Wiebe, Craig Gidney, Ryan Babbush

Tomography and generative training with quantum Boltzmann machines

Mária Kieferová, Nathan Wiebe

On the power of coherently controlled quantum adiabatic evolutions

Mária Kieferová, Nathan Wiebe

Quantum speedup by quantum annealing

Rolando D Somma, Daniel Nagaj, Mária Kieferová

Quantum walks on necklaces and mixing

Maria Kieferova, Daniel Nagaj

TalkS, notes and other materials

• Talk about quantum algorithms and in my time in academia for Women in Quantum.

• Poster about Entanglement Induced Barren Plateaus, presented at QIP 2021 conference and CQC2T 2021 workshop.

• An edited version of the talk I gave at CQC2T 2020 meeting.

• A talk at CEBIT Australia about applications of quantum computing. (slides)

• My presentation about Heath Bath Algorithmic Cooling. (slides) (poster)

• PhD thesis titled “Quantum Algorithmic Techniques for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computers”. (thesis) (slides)

• My presentation about improving techniques for eigenstate preparation and Hamiltonian simulation. (slides)

• TQC 2018 talk about Quantum Boltzmann Machines. (slides)

• Suppressing errors in adiabatic state preparation. (poster) (slides)