FirstQFM CTO presents at ISQCMC '25 in Palermo.

FirstQFM Co-founder and CTO Isaiah Hull presented at ISQCMC '25, the 3rd International Symposium on Quantum Computing and Musical Creativity, held October 28–29 in Palermo, Italy. The event brought together researchers working across quantum computing, quantum algorithms, hybrid quantum-classical systems, quantum machine learning, and creative applications of emerging computing technologies.

Hull's presentation, "Generating (Constraint-) Satisfying Melodies on a Neutral Atom Quantum Computer," focused on a quantum optimization formulation using unit disk maximum independent set problems. The work represents musicality constraints as a graph, where vertices correspond to candidate choices and edges encode incompatibilities. Solving for a maximum independent set then yields a selection that satisfies the encoded constraints.

The quantum computing component used the structure of neutral atom arrays, where atoms arranged in a plane can naturally encode unit disk graphs. In this setting, the Rydberg blockade prevents nearby atoms from being excited simultaneously, implementing the same exclusion structure that defines the independent set problem.