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Analogue simulation with the use of artificial quantum coherent structures

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posted on 2017-12-06, 10:09 authored by Alexandre ZagoskinAlexandre Zagoskin
An explosive development of quantum technologies since 1999 allowed the creation of arrays of natural and artificial quantum unit elements (viz. trapped ions and superconducting qubits), which maintain certain degree of quantum coherence and allow a degree of control over their quantum state. A natural application of such structures is towards simulating quantum systems, which are too big or too complex to allow a simulation with the means of classical computers. A digital quantum simulation promises a controlled accuracy, scalability and versatility, but it imposes practically as strict requirements on the hardware as a universal quantum computation. The other approach, analogue quantum simulation, is less demanding and thus more promising in short-to-medium term. It has already provided interesting results within the current experimental means and can be used as a stopgap approach as well as the means towards the perfecting of quantum technologies. Here I review the status of the field and discuss its prospects and the role it will play in the development of digital quantum simulation, universal quantum computing and, more broadly, quantum engineering.

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The author acknowledges the financial support of the EPSRC (grant Testing quantumness: from artificial quantum arrays to lattice spin models and spin liquids, EP/M006581/1) and of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation in the framework of Increase Competitiveness Program of NUST MISiS (No. K2-2016-067).

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Reviews in Physics

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ZAGOSKIN, A.M., 2018. Analogue simulation with the use of artificial quantum coherent structures. Reviews in Physics, 3, pp. 1-14.

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2017-11-15

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2018

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This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Elsevier under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licence (CC BY-NC-ND). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2405-4283

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