iQuHacks2023 Quantinuum Challenge

Our Experience At iQuHack! Authors: Jaydin Freeman, and David Glover This weekend our group: Jaydin Freeman, David Glover,  Ken, Jack, and Eimaan had the wonderful opportunity to attend iQuHack held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At this event we attended workshops, networking sessions, and connected with peers. It was truly a great experience. Quantinuum's Challenge Quantinuum provided five challenges to its participants. The one we chose was the following: This QAOA (Quantum Approximate Optimisation algorithm) implementation uses the most naive possible classical optimisation strategy. Parameters are sampled from a uniform distribution and if a list of parameters increases the value of the cost function these values are stored as the best guess so far. Can you improve on this using a more sophisticated optimisation strategy?  In layman's terms, we were tasked with coming up with a more efficient way to solve the Max Cut Problem using quantum algorithms. Imagine yo...