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How to engineer a quantum wavefunction

Evans, Peter W. and Hangleiter, Dominik and Thebault, Karim P Y (2023) How to engineer a quantum wavefunction. [Preprint]

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Abstract

In a conventional experiment, scientists typically aim to learn about target systems by manipulating source systems of the same material type. In an analogue quantum simulation, by contrast, scientists typically aim to learn about target quantum systems of one material type via an experiment on a source quantum system of a different material type. In this paper, we argue that such inferences can be justified by reference to source and target quantum systems being of the same empirical type. We illustrate this novel experimental practice of wavefunction engineering with reference to the example of Bose-Hubbard systems.

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Evans, Peter W.p.evans@uq.edu.au0000-0003-0214-4748
Hangleiter, Dominikdhang@umd.edu
Thebault, Karim P Ykarim.thebault@bristol.ac.uk
Keywords: Analogue quantum simulation; external validation; experiment; Bose-Hubbard physics
Subjects: General Issues > Experimentation
Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Depositing User: Dr. Peter W. Evans
Date Deposited: 20 Jun 2023 13:48
Last Modified: 20 Jun 2023 13:48
Item ID: 22221
DOI or Unique Handle: 10.1017/psa.2023.87
Subjects: General Issues > Experimentation
Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Date: 20 June 2023
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/22221

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