Quantum Control for Scientists and Engineers

John Edward Gough

Lior Ella

We discuss quantum computers from the perspective of one of their major building blocks, the hardware controller, explaining how it fits into the computer and the requirements and challenges it poses for engineers and scientists.

Gerard J Milburn

Andreas de Vries

Peter W. Evans, Dominik Hangleiter, Karim P. Y. Thébault

Abstract In a conventional experiment, scientists typically aim to learn about target systems by manipulating source systems of the same material type. In an analogue quantum simulation, by contrast, scientists typically aim to learn about target quantum systems of one material type via an experiment on a source quantum system of a different material type. In this article, we argue that such inferences can be justified by reference to source and target quantum systems being of the same empirical type. We illustrate this novel experimental practice of wavefunction engineering with reference to the example of Bose–Hubbard systems.