MA-1: Connecting ideas drawn from computer science, information theory, engineering, and mathematics to experimental quantum information platforms such as superconducting circuits and trapped ultracold atoms. Scientific goals of MA-1 include useful quantum algorithms for machine learning and optimization, more efficient schemes for fault-tolerant quantum computing, practical protocols for verifying quantumness, insights into thermalization of chaotic quantum systems, improved methods for classical simulation of quantum many-body physics, and convincing demonstrations of quantum advantage using quantum simulators.
