Classiq Creates a Coding Competition Designed to Challenger Entrants to Create the Most Optimum C...

Classiq has announced a coding competition with four different quantum programming problems designed to challenge programmers to create circuits that satisfy the problem using either the fewest gate levels or the fewest number of two qubit gates, depending upon the problem. The purpose is to show what can be accomplished with quantum computers that have a limited number of qubits or other constraints.

The contest will award $25,000 in prizes separate into three categories. The first category is awards for first, second, and third with amounts of $3,000, $1,500, and $500 for each of the four problems. The second category is for youths under the age of 18 with two prizes awarded for $1,000 each, and the third category is for the most original solutions with three prizes awarded of $1,000 each. Award winners can designate that their prizes be awarded to charity, if they choose.

The four problems consist of:

1. Kakuro: A Constraint Satisfaction Problem

2. Decomposing a Multi-control X Gate

3. Hamiltonian Simulation

4. Log-Normal State Preparation

Registration to enter the contest has already started and contestants have until 11:59 PM EDT on June 5, 2022 to submit their entries. Classiq mentioned to us that they have already received 80 registrations in the first day registration was open. So, this is a preliminary indication it will be a popular contest.

Additional information is available in a contest announcement posted on the Classiq website here, a more detailed contest description and registration page here, and another page with the terms and conditions here.

May 12, 2022