Loughborough's annual quantum-physics-in-the pub event!
Phase transitions in quantum circuits
Prof. Chris Hooley, head of Statistical Physics group, Centre for Fluid and Complex Systems, Coventry University
Modern quantum mechanics is arguably 100 years old this year. In the early days of the subject attention was focused on small numbers of particles; as it progressed, attention turned to many-particle quantum systems (so-called ‘condensed matter’). These were usually studied in or near equilibrium, since those were the conditions relevant to experiment. Now, however, with the advance of quantum simulation and quantum information processing, we are pushing larger and larger numbers of quantum bits (qubits) further and further from equilibrium. In this talk, I shall briefly review this progress, and describe some of what we’re finding in large out-of-equilibrium quantum circuits.
