Project Description
Introduction
Building a sizeable quantum computer (QC) is clearly an extremely challenging task. However, researchers agree that even a very small QC consisting of only few qubitswould represent a most significant development. Any new and novel realization for QC hardware has this as a first step, which must be surmounted before progressing on to questions such as scalability and error correction. Few-qubit investigation of the foreseen objectives (such as decoherence and quantum measurements) for new qubits -in this case, magnetic molecular clusters and nanoscopic particles- is the first essential step towards bridging the gapbetween recognised microscopic quantum systems and their application in future QC devices. To facilitate methodology and workplan discussion, we give here a scientific outline divided in five sequential subsections:
- Theoretical framework
- State preparation
- Decoherence
- Quantum gates
- Physical realisation
