Overview

With rapid advances in the capabilities of a growing array of quantum devices and computers, and the future potential for simulating structure and dynamics of Standard Model physics that cannot be addressed with classical computing, first quantum simulations of small model quantum field theories and many-body systems have started to be performed.  The beginning of the Quantum-2 era that this progress heralds has been brought about by remarkable advances across the sciences and engineering, from materials to algorithms, toward precision control of coherence and entanglement in the laboratory for sensing and computing, and their integration. This special topics course in theoretical physics brings together the vision and practical research at the forefront of quantum information science, quantum computing and simulation, and theoretical physics that is enabling the early progress in quantum simulations of quantum systems of future importance for scientific applications including quantum computers and simulators.