Dr. Nissim Ofek - Taming a Quantum Beast

Abstract

In this talk, I am going to focus on the control layer of the quantum computing stack. This is the layer that bridges the higher (and more abstract) layers, which describe quantum algorithms and an actual (analog) quantum system.  As such, it confronts a whole range of constraints coming from both directions. On top of that, we desire that the control layer be agnostic to the specific quantum platform (be it SC qubits, trapped ions, NV center-based systems or anything else). I will elaborate on a notion that the control system is a "subtractive" instrument. Namely, it never enables the full potential of the quantum system. At the end, the "right" control system is a solution of an extremely complex optimization problem, involving many scientific fields.