Semester page for FYS5419 - Spring 2023

Dear all, last Monday (May 1) there was no lecture due to a public holiday in Norway.
This week I wanted to ask you if we can switch our lecture to Friday instead of Monday, and if possible Friday from 10am to 12pm. Let me know if this fits. I am busy grading (final exam project) today and tomorrow the course I teach here in Michigan (classical mechanics with some 60 students) and need both days for grading.
If possible thus, it would be better if we can switch to the this coming Friday. The lecture will then be in person since I am in Norway then. We can meet at the CCSE, room F?467. We can also begin earlier if you want, say 9am and use time to discuss the project as well. If needed, we will also have a last lecture on Monday 15 or sometime later the week thereafter.
I hope this works for you all and best wishes for the week.
In summary, the lecture tomorrow, Monday 12pm-2pm, is moved to Friday starting either 9am or 10am.
Best wishes,
Morten

Dear all, we hope you have had a wonderful weekend. For FYS5419/9519, the plans this week is to wrap up our discussions of the project and if there is an interest we can discuss quantum fourier transforms as our last topic. The week of May 1-5 there is no lecture since May is a public holiday. We will have our last lecture on May 8, with a summary of what we have done with discussions of the project.
Best wishes to you all,
Morten

Dear all, we hope you have had a great break.

The plans for this week are to discuss and finalize how to implement the VQE method for the  eigenvalue problems discussed in the project.  We will also discuss how to use gradient descent methods with and without analytical gradients. 

The material on gradient descent methods is taken from FYS-STK4155, see 

https://github.com/CompPhysics/MachineLearning/blob/master/doc/pub/week39/ipynb/week39.ipynb and the expressions for the analytical gradients are taken from the article of Schuld et al, see 

https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.99.032331

We will go through these derivations during the lecture on Monday April 17. The lecture notes (they are updated continuously) are at 

https://github.com/CompPhysics/QuantumComputingMachineLearning/blob/gh-pages/doc/pub/week11/ipynb/week11.ipynb

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