Automated Search for new Quantum Experiments

Understand

Quantum mechanics predicts a number of at first sight counterintuitive phenomena.

• It is therefore a question whether our intuition is the best way to find new experiments.
• Here we report the development of the computer algorithm Melvin which is able to find new experimental implementations for the creation and manipulation of complex quantum states.
• And indeed, the discovered experiments extensively use unfamiliar and asymmetric techniques which are challenging to understand intuitively.