Note: Speaker names are in bold
Monday, August 10, 2026
| Item | Description | Duration | Start Time | End Time |
| Registration | Walk-in/check-in, badge pick-up, coffee/tea | 45 minutes | 8:30 am | 9:15 am |
| Introduction | Klaasjan van Druten (QSim2026 Organizing Committee) Welcome to QSim2026 | 10 minutes | 9:15 am | 9:25 am |
| Morning session chair: Phillipp Preiss | ||||
| Invited Talk | Johannes Zeiher Velocity-enabled control in metastable strontium arrays | 40 minutes | 9:35 am | 10:15 am |
| Contributed Talk | Dorothee Tell, Si Wang, Johannes Obermeyer, Marnix Barendregt, Petar Bojović, Thomas G. Kiely, Matthew P. A. Fisher, Abhijat Sarma, Philipp M. Preiss, Titus Franz, Cenke Xu, Immanuel Bloch Observing strong-to-weak spontaneous symmetry breaking in a cold-atom quantum simulator | 20 minutes | 10:15 am | 10:35 am |
| Break | Coffee/tea break, provided by QSim | 35 minutes | 10:35 am | 11:10 am |
| Invited Talk | Tony Ransford Helios: A 98-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer | 40 minutes | 11:10 am | 11:50 am |
| Contributed Talk | Sean Muleady, Bryce Bullock, Yicheng Zhang, Jennifer Lilieholm, Arghavan Safavi-Naini, Robert Lewis-Swan, John Bollinger, Ana Maria Rey, Allison Carter Observation of a Dicke model in a two-dimensional ion crystal: chaos, quantum thermalization, and revivals | 20 minutes | 11:50 am | 12:10 pm |
| Contributed Talk | Chiu Fan Bowen Lo, Anasuya Lyons, Dan Gresh, Michael Mills, Peter E. Siegfried, Maxwell D. Urmey, Nathanan Tantivasadakarn, Henrik Dreyer, Ashvin Vishwanath, Ruben Verresen, Mohsin Iqbal Universal Gates from Braiding and Fusing Anyons on Quantum Hardware | 20 minutes | 12:10 pm | 12:30 pm |
| Lunch | Lunch provided by QSim | 1 hour 30 minutes | 12:30 pm | 2:00 pm |
| Afternoon session chair: Lawrence Cheuk | ||||
| Invited Talk | Katie Klymko HamLib and Beyond: Building a Library of Hamiltonians for Quantum Benchmarking | 40 minutes | 2:00 pm | 2:40 pm |
| Contributed Talk | Gavin S. Hartnett, Khadijeh Sona Najafi, Aleksei Khindanov, Haoran Liao, Michael Schutzman, Michael R. Hush, Michael J. Biercuk, Yuval Baum Accurate simulation of large-scale Fermi-Hubbard model on a digital quantum processor | 20 minutes | 2:40 pm | 3:00 pm |
| Contributed Talk | Anton Than, Saurabh Kadam, Vinay Vikramaditya, Nhung Nguyen, Xingxin Liu, Zohreh Davoudi, Alaina Green, Norbert Linke Observation of quantum-field-theory dynamics on a spin-phonon quantum computer | 20 minutes | 3:00 pm | 3:20 pm |
| Break | Tea/coffee break, provided by QSim | 30 minutes | 3:20 pm | 3:50 pm |
| Invited Talk | Martin Ringbauer Quantum Simulation with Trapped-Ion Qudits | 40 minutes | 3:50 pm | 4:30 pm |
| Contributed Talk | Hiroki Sukeno, Enrico Rinaldi, Takuya Okuda Measurement-based simulation of lattice gauge theory dynamics with adaptive quantum circuits on a trapped-ion processor | 20 minutes | 4:30 pm | 4:50 pm |
| Social | Welcome drinks, provided by QSim | 1 hour 10 minutes | 4:50 pm | 6:00 pm |
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
| Item | Description | Duration | Start Time | End Time |
| Morning session chair: Anastasiia Skurativska | ||||
| Invited Talk | Philipp Preiss Hybrid Digital-Analog Quantum Simulation with Ultracold Fermions | 40 minutes | 9:15 am | 9:55 am |
| Contributed Talk | Lev Kendrick, Anant Kale, Youqi Gang, Alexander Deters, Martin Lebrat, Aaron Young, Markus Greiner Pseudogap at ultralow temperatures in a Fermi-Hubbard quantum simulator | 20 minutes | 9:55 am | 10:15 am |
| Contributed Talk | Richard Allen, Aram Harrow Randomized Sparsification of Commuting Unitaries | 20 minutes | 10:15 am | 10:35 am |
| Break | Coffee/tea break, provided by QSim | 35 minutes | 10:35 am | 11:10 am |
| Invited Talk | Barbara Terhal How to represent bosons using qubits for quantum simulation | 40 minutes | 11:10 am | 11:50 am |
| Contributed Talk | Nobuyuki Yoshioka, Alireza Seif, Peter Groszkowski, Andrew Cross, Ali Javadi-Abhari Theory and Architecture of Weak Transversal Gates | 20 minutes | 11:50 am | 12:10 pm |
| Contributed Talk | Marius Bothe, Christoph Sunderhauf, Michael Witham, Earl Campbell, Nick Blunt Significantly cheaper fault-tolerant Trotterization by improved Clifford+T synthesis for small-angle rotations | 20 minutes | 12:10 pm | 12:30 pm |
| Lunch | Lunch provided by QSim | 1 hour 30 minutes | 12:30 pm | 2:00 pm |
| Afternoon session chair: Nikolaj Moll | ||||
| Invited Talk | William Kirby Observation of Improved Accuracy over Classical Sparse Ground-State Solvers using a Quantum Computer | 40 minutes | 2:00 pm | 2:40 pm |
| Contributed Talk | Gregor Humar, Jean-Yves Desaules, Luka Pavešić, Marko Ljubotina, Zlatko Papić, Kristel Michielsen, Jaka Vodeb Resonant false vacuum decay in two dimensions on a 4000-qubit quantum annealer | 20 minutes | 2:40 pm | 3:00 pm |
| Contributed Talk | Chongwei Zhang, Rodrigo G. Cortinas, Amir Karamlou, Nicholas Noll, Justin Provazza, Johannes Bausch, Sergey Shirobokov, Alec White, Martin Claassen, Suh Hyun Kang, Chandrasekhar Ramanathan, Xiao Mi, Christian Bengs, Ashok Ajoy, Zlatko K. Minev, Nicholas Rubin, Thomas E. O’Brien Quantum computation of molecular geometry via many-body nuclear spin echoes | 20 minutes | 3:00 pm | 3:20 pm |
| Break | Tea/coffee break, provided by QSim | 30 minutes | 3:20 pm | 3:50 pm |
| Invited Talk | Philippe Corboz Tensor network studies of SU(N) Heisenberg and Hubbard models | 40 minutes | 3:50 pm | 4:30 pm |
| Contributed Talk | Carter Gustin, William Simon, Kamil Serafin, Gary Goldstein, Peter Love Quantum Simulation of Quantum Chromodynamics | 20 minutes | 4:30 pm | 4:50 pm |
| Poster Session | Poster session 1 | 1 hour 40 minutes | 4:50 pm | 6:30 pm |
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
| Item | Description | Duration | Start Time | End Time |
| Morning session chair: Sophia Simon | ||||
| Invited Talk | Garnet Chan Quasiparticle quantum simulation: a framework for robust quantum advantage across electronic structure theory and dynamics | 40 minutes | 9:15 am | 9:55 am |
| Contributed Talk | Tanuj Khattar, Noah Shutty, Craig Gidney, Adam Zalcman, Nour Yosri, Dmitri Maslov, Ryan Babbush, Stephen P Jordan Verifiable Quantum Advantage via Optimized DQI Circuits | 20 minutes | 9:55 am | 10:15 am |
| Contributed Talk | Jakob Günther, Freek Witteveen, Alexander Schmidhuber, Marek Miller, Matthias Christandl, Aram Harrow Phase estimation with partially randomized time evolution | 20 minutes | 10:15 am | 10:35 am |
| Break | Coffee/tea break, provided by QSim | 35 minutes | 10:35 am | 11:10 am |
| Invited Talk | Monika Schleier-Smith Decoded Quantum Sensing with Dipolar and Cavity-Coupled Spins | 40 minutes | 11:10 am | 11:50 am |
| Contributed Talk | Jue Xu, Xiao Yuan, Qi Zhao Quantum Advantage for Dynamical Phase Transition | 20 minutes | 11:50 am | 12:10 pm |
| Contributed Talk | Huan-Yu Liu, Tai-Ping Sun, Zhao-Yun Chen, Cheng Xue, Chao Wang, Xi-Ning Zhuang, Ming Gong, Jin-Peng Liu, Wei Yi, Yu-Chun Wu, Guo-Ping Guo Near-Term Quantum Simulation Algorithms for the Dynamics of Open Quantum Systems | 20 minutes | 12:10 pm | 12:30 pm |
| Lunch | Lunch provided by QSim | 1 hour 30 minutes | 12:30 pm | 2:00 pm |
| Panel Discussion | Panel discussion Panel members: Garnet Chan, Monika Schleier-Smith, Barbara Terhal and Johannes Zeiher. Moderators: Arghavan Safavi-Naini and Kareljan Schoutens | 50 minutes | 2:00 pm | 2:50 pm |
| Afternoon session chair: Arghavan Safavi-Naini | ||||
| Contributed Talk | Xiangran Zhang, Jue Xu, Qi Zhao, You Zhou Taming Trotter Errors with Quantum Resources | 20 minutes | 2:50 pm | 3:10 pm |
| Contributed Talk | (withdrawn) | 20 minutes | 3:10 pm | 3:30 pm |
| Break | Tea/coffee break, provided by QSim | 30 minutes | 3:30 pm | 4:00 pm |
| Social Event | Onboarding and canal boat trip to conference dinner (for those signed-up) | 1 hour 30 minutes | 4:00 pm | 5:30 pm |
| Social Event | Conference dinner (for those signed up) | 3 hours | 5:30 pm | 8:30 pm |
Thursday, August 13, 2026
| Item | Description | Duration | Start Time | End Time |
| Morning session chair: Tom O’Brien | ||||
| Invited Talk | Sergey Bravyi Quantum algorithms for stochastic nonlinear differential equations | 40 minutes | 9:15 am | 9:55 am |
| Contributed Talk | Kostyantyn Kechedzhi Predicting quantum dynamics of 50+ qubits from matrix product states with limited bond dimension | 20 minutes | 9:55 am | 10:15 am |
| Contributed Talk | Nikolaj Moll, Athena Caesura, Cristian L. Cortes, William Pol, Sukin Sim, Mark Steudtner, Gian-Luca Anselmetti, Matthias Degroote, Raffaele Santagati, Michael Streif, Christofer S. Tautermann Faster quantum chemistry simulations on a quantum computer with improved tensor factorization and active volume compilation | 20 minutes | 10:15 am | 10:35 am |
| Break | Coffee/tea break, provided by QSim | 35 minutes | 10:35 am | 11:10 am |
| Invited Talk | Guang Hao Low Utility-scale electronic structure with under 100k noisy qubits | 40 minutes | 11:10 am | 11:50 am |
| Contributed Talk | Andrew Childs, Lincoln Johnston, Brian Kiedrowski, Mahathi Vempati, Jeffery Yu Quantum Algorithms for Heterogeneous PDEs: The Neutron Diffusion Eigenvalue Problem | 20 minutes | 11:50 am | 12:10 pm |
| Contributed Talk | Sophia Simon, Dominic Berry, Rolando Somma Efficient quantum algorithm for linear matrix differential equations and applications to open quantum systems | 20 minutes | 12:10 pm | 12:30 pm |
| Lunch | Lunch provided by QSim | 1 hour 30 minutes | 12:30 pm | 2:00 pm |
| Afternoon session chair: Alexandra Geim | ||||
| Invited Talk | Alexander Impertro Quantum information and simulation with dual-species Rydberg arrays | 40 minutes | 2:00 pm | 2:40 pm |
| Contributed Talk | Lucas Leclerc, Sergi Julià-Farré, Gabriel Silva Freitas, Guillaume Villaret, Minseong Lee, Tiago Mendes-Santos, Constantin Dalyac, Antoine Browaeys, Alexandre Dauphin One-to-one quantum simulation of the low-dimensional frustrated quantum magnet TmMgGaO4 with 256 qubits | 20 minutes | 2:40 pm | 3:00 pm |
| Contributed Talk | Nik Gjonbalaj, Christian Kokail, Susanne Yelin, Soonwon Choi Unified Probe of Quantum Chaos and Ergodicity from Hamiltonian Learning | 20 minutes | 3:00 pm | 3:20 pm |
| Break | Tea/coffee break, provided by QSim | 40 minutes | 3:20 pm | 4:00 pm |
| Contributed Talk | Nathan Constantinides, Jeffery Yu, Dhruv Devulapalli, Ali Fahimniya, Luke Schaeffer, Michael Gullans, Andrew Childs, Alexander Schuckert, Alexey Gorshkov Nearly-optimal fermion routing without ancillas | 20 minutes | 4:00 pm | 4:20 pm |
| Contributed Talk | Manuel Algaba, Miha Papič, Emiliano Godinez-Ramirez, Inés de Vega, Adrian Auer, Alessio Calzona, Fedor Šimkovic Optimal strategies for near-term simulation of fermionic systems with scalable local fermion-to-qubit mappings | 20 minutes | 4:20 pm | 4:40 pm |
| Poster Session | Poster session 2 | 1 hour 50 minutes | 4:40 pm | 6:30 pm |
Friday, August 14, 2026
| Item | Description | Duration | Start Time | End Time |
| Morning session chair: Katherine Klymko/Lev Kendrick | ||||
| Invited Talk | Lawrence Cheuk Exploring Interacting Spin Physics with Molecular Tweezer Arrays | 40 minutes | 9:15 am | 9:55 am |
| Contributed Talk | Mathis Pepin, B. Muraz, M. Pepin, C. Guimard, M. Brune, B. Bakkali-Hassani, S. Gleyzes Singlet-triplet oscillations in trapped circular Rydberg atoms of strontium | 20 minutes | 9:55 am | 10:15 am |
| Contributed Talk | Cameron McGarry, Teerawat Chalermpusitarak, Kai Schwennicke, Frank Scuccimarra, Maverick Millican, Vassili Matsos, Christophe Valahu, Prachi Nagpal, Hon-Kwan Chan, Henry Nourse, Ivan Kassal, Ting Rei Tan Programmable quantum simulation of anharmonic dynamics | 20 minutes | 10:15 am | 10:35 am |
| Break | Coffee/tea break, provided by QSim | 35 minutes | 10:35 am | 11:10 am |
| Invited Talk | Alexandra Geim Quantum simulation with neutral atoms: from analog to digital | 40 minutes | 11:10 am | 11:50 am |
| Contributed Talk | Robert Ott, Lisa Bombieri, Giuliano Giudici, Hannes Pichler Detecting the length-scale of topological order with quantum simulators | 20 minutes | 11:50 am | 12:10 pm |
| Contributed Talk | Zhongda Zeng, Giuliano Giudici, Aruku Senoo, Alexander Baumgärtner, Adam Kaufman, Hannes Pichler Adiabatic echo protocols for robust preparation of entangled many-body states | 20 minutes | 12:10 pm | 12:30 pm |
| Lunch | Lunch provided by QSim | 1 hour 30 minutes | 12:30 pm | 2:00 pm |
| Afternoon session chair: Robert Spreeuw | ||||
| Contributed Talk | Abtin Ameri, Arkopal Dutt, Hari Krovi Quantum simulation of non-Markovian dynamical systems | 20 minutes | 2:00 pm | 2:20 pm |
| Contributed Talk | Tyler Kharazi, Ahmad M. Alkadri, Kranthi K. Mandadapu, K. Birgitta Whaley Provable Quantum Speedups for Reaction-Rate Estimation in High-Dimensional Fokker-Planck Dynamics | 20 minutes | 2:20 pm | 2:40 pm |
| Closing Remarks | Kareljan Schoutens (Qsim Steering Committee) Concluding remarks and Outlook to future QSims | 10 minutes | 2:40 pm | 2:50 pm |
| Lab tours | (for those signed up) Transfer to Amsterdam Science Park and tour of QGQI labs (Quantum Gases and Quantum Information) | 2 hours | 3:00pm | 5:00pm |