Quantum Technology Capital: An extensible simulation and test platform for quantum and quantum enabled technologies

量子技术需要复杂的控制系统和包装，以确保它们使用的量子效应不会受到环境或磁场等外部干扰的破坏。目前，大多数包装这些系统的方法都是通过构建原型并测量其性能来开发的。这是一项既耗时又昂贵的工作，而且会导致解决同一问题的各种不同方法。复杂的模拟工具开始应用于这些系统，这些工具允许创建控制和包装的“虚拟”原型。这项提议的目的是在此基础上，开发允许对广泛的量子技术进行详细模拟的标准方法。这些模型和方法将通过使用测试平台来评估，以测量与模拟原型相比的“真实”硬件的性能。这将使我们能够迅速改进建模并建立解决此类问题的方法的知识库。最后，我们将对各子系统进行较为全面的硬件在环方法测试，以评估实际硬件在较大系统内的运行情况。我们的方法将是最初专注于离子陷阱技术，然后将这些方法应用于分子器件和微波到光转换器件。一个成功的计划将导致设计和测试方法的发展，这将加速一系列量子技术的发展

Quantum technologies require complex control systems and packaging to ensure that the quantum effects that they use are not corrupted by their environment or external disturbances such as magnetic fields. At present most approaches to packaging these systems are developed by building a prototype and measuring its performance. This is a time consuming and costly exercise, and it leads to a wide range of different approaches to solving the same problem. Complex simulation tools, which allow a 'virtual' prototype of the control and packaging to be created are beginning to be applied to these systems. The aim of this proposal is to build on this, and develop standard methods that allow detailed simulation of a wide range of quantum technologies. These models and methods will be evaluated by using a test platform to measure the performance of the 'real' hardware against the simulated prototype. This will allow us to rapidly refine the modelling and build a knowledge base of approaches to this type of problem. Finally we will test the subsystems more fully hardware in the loop approach methods to evaluate the real hardware operation within a larger system simulation. Our approach will be to focus on Ion-trap technologies initially, and then apply these approaches to molecular devices and microwave to optical conversion devices. A successful programme will lead to the development of design and testing methods that will accelerate the development of a range of quantum technologies