{"id":189618,"date":"2013-07-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T16:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/msr-research-item\/taming-the-quantum-tiger\/"},"modified":"2016-08-02T06:12:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T13:12:36","slug":"taming-the-quantum-tiger","status":"publish","type":"msr-video","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/video\/taming-the-quantum-tiger\/","title":{"rendered":"Taming the Quantum Tiger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<p>Quantum computation has taught us that a quantum system is best visualized as a wild tiger rather than a tame Schrodinger&#8217;s cat. Indeed the exponential power of quantum systems, which makes quantum computers possible, is also an enormous obstacle to analyzing and understanding physical systems. Is there a way to tame the quantum tiger and neutralize this curse of exponentially? In this talk I will address this question in two settings:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Are there general classes of quantum systems whose states can be efficiently (polynomially) computed on a traditional classical computer? <\/li>\n<li>Is it possible for a classical experimentalist to test that an untrusted quantum system behaves as commanded? For example, is it possible to test that a claimed quantum computer is really quantum?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The talk will discuss recent breakthroughs in both settings, as well as many exciting open questions. I will make every attempt to keep the discussion widely accessible.<\/p>\n<p>Based on joint results with Zeph Landau and Thomas Vidick, and with Ben Reichardt and Falk Unger.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .asset-content --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum computation has taught us that a quantum system is best visualized as a wild tiger rather than a tame Schrodinger&#8217;s cat. Indeed the exponential power of quantum systems, which makes quantum computers possible, is also an enormous obstacle to analyzing and understanding physical systems. Is there a way to tame the quantum tiger and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":197744,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","msr_hide_image_in_river":0,"footnotes":""},"research-area":[],"msr-video-type":[206954],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-post-option":[],"msr-session-type":[],"msr-impact-theme":[],"msr-pillar":[],"msr-episode":[],"msr-research-theme":[],"class_list":["post-189618","msr-video","type-msr-video","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","msr-video-type-microsoft-research-talks","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_download_urls":"","msr_external_url":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/k5CFySG7Mjg","msr_secondary_video_url":"","msr_video_file":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-video\/189618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-video"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/msr-video"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-video\/189618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"msr-research-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-area?post=189618"},{"taxonomy":"msr-video-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-video-type?post=189618"},{"taxonomy":"msr-locale","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-locale?post=189618"},{"taxonomy":"msr-post-option","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-post-option?post=189618"},{"taxonomy":"msr-session-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-session-type?post=189618"},{"taxonomy":"msr-impact-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-impact-theme?post=189618"},{"taxonomy":"msr-pillar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-pillar?post=189618"},{"taxonomy":"msr-episode","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-episode?post=189618"},{"taxonomy":"msr-research-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-research-theme?post=189618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}