Lectures & Tutorials
Hello Quantum World! (career talk)
Part of the series Career & Outreach; each deck is cited on its own.
Traces a path from Sofia to UC Berkeley and Yale and into IBM Quantum, using the quantum-jumps experiment (catching and reversing a jump mid-flight) as a case study in question-driven research. Personal lessons and outreach work (seminar series, summer schools, Open Labs) are followed by a short technical tour: a one-qubit 'Hello World' showing how noise degrades results, error mitigation and utility-scale experiments, and Qiskit Metal for chip design.
- Quantum jumps: continuous, coherent, and partly predictable rather than instantaneous
- Career lessons: believe in your ideas, learn widely, teach to learn
- Noise as the central challenge, shown with a depth-d qubit-flip experiment on real hardware
- Qiskit Metal and the landscape of circuit-quantization methods
Summary and key points drafted by a language model from the slides, not yet reviewed by me. The slides are the source.
Cite
@misc{minev2023helloquantum,
author = {Zlatko K. Minev},
title = {{Hello Quantum World! (career talk)}},
howpublished = {Talk, Guest lecture, Sophia Economou's class},
year = {2023},
url = {https://zlatko-minev.github.io/zlatko-minev-quantum-repository/items/2023-hello-quantum-world/},
note = {Slides}
}Reuse
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