Global Industry Challenge 2026

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Write-ups

DOE OTC Challenge: Quantum-Enhanced Strategic Siting of Energy Storage and Microgrids

Mitsubishi/AIST Challenge: Harnessing the Generative Quantum Eigensolver for Next-Generation Materials Design

Setup instructions

To install the environment, run the following commands in a qBraid Lab Terminal or using qBraid CLI:

qbraid envs share redeem-code 1YDHDCR

qbraid envs install etrio_fjqdnq

After installation activate the environment:

qbraid envs activate etrio

qbraid kernels add etrio

cd gic_2026/

Convert scripts to Jupyter notebooks using:

# DOE challenge
jupytext --to notebook doe/phase_3/code/grid_opt.py

# Mitsubishi/AIST challenge
jupytext --to notebook mitsubishi/phase_3/code/euv_spectra.py

DOE OTC Challenge specific instructions

• We use the Defining Point Algorithm (DPA) as the gold-standard classical benchmark. This binary must be built and placed near the grid_opt notebook. See the DPA compilation guide. Alternatively, you may use this pre-compiled Linux binary for DPA.

• Samplomatic does not support the Qiskit Aer simulator. Therefore USE_SAMPLOMATIC=True with USE_QPU=False fails. We are exploring a workaround in a separate smatic-noqpu branch, but this is extremely slow (6 hours per run) and not recommended. We were not able to test the USE_SAMPLOMATIC setting on QPUs.

Mitsubishi/AIST Challenge specific instructions

• If you have UserWarning: CUDA initialization: The NVIDIA driver on your system is too old ... after executing the second cell (Parameter Settings), try the following in a terminal:

  1. Uninstall existing PyTorch packages

     pip uninstall -y torch

  2. Install PyTorch with CUDA 12.1 compatibility

     pip install torch --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu121

  (If your environment still complains after this, replace cu121 with cu118 in the URL to use the ultra-compatible CUDA 11.8 build).

• See OpenMolcas Guide to plot a classical Auger spectrum for smaller molecules. The last cell in euv_spectra notebook can take OpenMolcas RASSI files to view the classical Auger spectrum alongside the quantum (GQE + q-sc-EOM + OCA) spectrum. Alternatively, for $\rm{LiH}$ and $\rm{H_2O}$, you may find the files here: LiH Auger Data, H2O Auger Data. These files must be placed in data/openmolcas alongside the notebook.