Enhance Qiskit papers database & replication study

[HuangJunye]

Description

This project would build on efforts to catalog papers published using Qiskit or IBM Quantum systems (available here). In particular, this project would have 2 parts:

• In the first part, the database entries would be verified for inclusion (i.e., toss out entries that are actually invalid). Entries would also gain additional metadata about the exact backends used. This is useful for analytics purposes.

The second part would be up to the mentee to decide what they would like to do. Two ideas I have are:

• Write a report summarizing some analytics of the database. For example, which backend(s) are used most frequently? What is the rate of adoption of a new backend? This would involve analyzing the metadata of the database, and doing technical writing. This path would be more appropriate for someone who wants to do data science and writing.

• Doing a replication study of a given paper using a wide variety of backends. Many papers use only 1 backend; here, we'd replicate the core ideas of the paper, but across multiple backends. Such a replication study could get turned into a Qiskit blog post. It would also teach the mentee about Qiskit. This path would be more appropriate for someone who wants to dive into research and Qiskit.

Mentor/s

Travis L. Scholten (@Travis-S-IBM), Quantum computing application researcher at IBM Quantum.

Anna Phan (@attp), Research scientist at IBM Research Australia, for the replication study part if there are multiple people/teams wanting to replicate different papers.

Type of participant

Someone who is willing to do the long slog through the database and add metadata, and who has an interest in either of technical writing or Qiskit coding.

Number of participants

1 to 2 people could work as a team on this. If there were more and the group wanted to go down both paths, that would be acceptable.

Deliverable

The core deliverable is an improved database. Auxiliary deliverables include a report summarizing the database and/or a blog post about a replication study of a paper.

[Travis-S-IBM]

Note: I'd also be open to do a replication of this paper, which isn't in the database. But the authors note that they originally used Qiskit, then abandoned it.

[hykavitha]

@Travis-S-IBM @HuangJunye : i would be interested to replication study as it involves deep dive into qiskit as a mentee in qiskit-advocate-mentorship-program

[HuangJunye]

@bagmk Can you comment on this issue so that I can assign you? Please also work with your mentor to refine the project, define scope and deliverables and update the project description in this issue.

[HuangJunye]

@kareem1925 You are working on this project idea with Waheeda. Can you create a separate issue so that I can assign you and Waheeda on it? Also update the project description to reflect that exact paper that you are trying to work on.

[Travis-S-IBM]

Noting here @bagmk and I are working on replicating this paper: Evaluation of Parameterized Quantum Circuits: on the relation between classification accuracy, expressibility and entangling capability.

[bagmk]

Thank you @HuangJunye, we will start working together to replicate the paper that @Travis-S-IBM mentioned.