Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Postdoc – Design and Control Theory of NV-Based Quantum Simulators Disseminate your results in renowned journals and at international conferences.Closely work together with our project partners and become part of an interdisciplinary team.Develop hybrid quantum-classical algorithms for mixed-integer and constrained problems.Analyze performance and scalability of QO and compare to classical optimization.Perform and analyze computational experiments on quantum computing hardware.Develop QO formulations for energy system design and operation.We are supported by our project partners and quantum computing experts at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) and the Peter Grünberg Institute – Institute for Quantum Computing Analytics (PGI-12). To this end, we will perform extensive computational experiments on the Jülich D-Wave quantum annealer and on a gate-based quantum computer over the cloud. Our goal is to identify design and operational problems for which efficient quantum formulations and hybrid quantum-classical algorithms can be derived and to analyze scalability and relative performance of quantum-(assisted) optimization compared to state-of-the-art classical optimization. While illustrative, energy-related examples (e.g., unit commitment) have been ported onto quantum computers, the potential of QO for energy systems engineering, especially with respect to the design and operation of multi-carrier energy networks, remains largely unknown.
Quantum optimization (QO) is a promising, potentially disruptive technology for solving difficult optimization problems which is at the heart of energy system design and operation.