First of all, a great thank you to OsloMet for the inauguration of the first quantum computer in Norway!
And just few days ago IBM announced that they expect to achieve a 1121-qubit quantum processor, and thereby quantum advantage by 2023!
The main aim is to give you a short introduction to our activities and how to build larger Quantum Information Systems (QIS) (and QT/QC (Quantum Technologies/Quantum Computing) ) collaborations and activities, research and education.
This work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, office of Nuclear Physics under grant No. DE-SC0021152 and U.S. National Science Foundation Grants No. PHY-1404159 and PHY-2013047 and the Norwegian ministry of Education and Research for PhD fellowships.
Overarching keyword: dimension reduction
How can we avoid the dimensionality curse? In quantum mechanical studies there are Many possibilities
Machine Learning and Quantum Computing hold great promise in tackling the ever increasing dimensionalities. A hot new field is Quantum Machine Learning, see for example the recent textbook by Maria Schuld and Francesco Petruccione.
During the last two years we have started a large scientific activity on Quantum Computing and Machine Learning at the Center for Computing in Science Education (CCSE), with three PhD students hired since October 2019 and several master of Science students. This activity spans from the development of quantum-mechanical many-particle theories for studying systems of interest for making quantum computers, via the development of machine learning and quantum algorithms for solving quantum mechanical problems to exploring quantum machine learning algorithms.
In 2022/2023 we expect to hire a post-doctoral fellow working on quantum computing (many-body theories) at the center for Materials Science and Nanotechnology at the University of Oslo. We also expect to hire a new PhD student, see https://www.mn.uio.no/compsci/english/phd_programme/projects/physics/machine-learning.html
Electrons on superfluid helium represent a promising platform for investigating strongly-coupled qubits.
Therefore a systematic investigation of the controlled generation of entanglement between two trapped electrons under the influence of coherent microwave driving pulses, taking into account the effects of the Coulomb interaction between electrons, is of significant importance for quantum information processing using trapped electrons.
Coordination across university boundaries?
The Center for Computing in Science Education at UiO could be the entity which provides the pedagogical resourses. It has research experience on how do we design curricula so that students develop deep knowledge that is connected and useful.