Quantum at work
For several years we have offered a 10 credit project course to our IT bachelor students. A rich plethora of topics and scientific and professional directions are eligible. This year, however, we offer – for the first time – projects on quantum technology.
We are thrilled to see that four of our students took the bait – and even more thrilled to see what they deliver!
Alina Khan and Zahra Imaan Ahmad have devised, analysed, simulated and run a circuit that implements an important model in quantum physics, the Landau-Zener model.
Andrés Cáceres, whom you can seen in the picture below, is – together with Lenni Tom Walter, involved in a project in which they are trying to determine a relative phase factor in a Bell-like state. This projects involves circuits with both two and three qubits. So our three-qubit machine, Munin, is used to its full potential, so to speak.
It is no exaggeration to say that all four of them where thrown off the deep end here. With virtually no prior training in neither quantum phenomena nor quantum computing, it was a lot to take in the first weeks. But they did take it in. And they proved able to come up with quantum circuits that correctly solve their respective problems.
So it is fair to say that we have been impressed by the students’ performance. Are we equally impressed by Munin’s performance? Let’s wait for their reports, shall we?