CMSC858V

The first part of our class covers the fundamentals of quantum control and metrology in both digital and analog domains: design and calibration of quantum gates, analog quantum operations, quantum state preparation, and measurement; estimation, characterization, and mitigation of environmental noise; synthesis of logical quantum circuits to physical quantum circuits for a given quantum hardware architecture. The second part of the class connects quantum control mand metrology to the deployment of quantum algorithms on near-term quantum computers: ion trap qubits, superconducting qubits, and neutral atom qubits. We will review some of the most successful quantum algorithms deployed on real quantum hardware while focusing on the necessary classical and quantum error mitigation techniques.