The Quantum Observer
You may have noticed that OpenAI chat bot, ChatGPT is making a splash across the internet. Much of the commentary has centered around the vast attack surface of the chat bot, and the hijinks that can ensue when you ask it to plan the destruction of the human race as though it were a malevolent AI, or just a paperclip maximizer.
On quantum twitter results appear to be mixed. Verd gets a plausible looking answer, while Anastasia Marchenkova shows that GPT won’t be designing qubits any time soon.
After all of this excitement, I decided to get in on the game with some simple tasks for our friendly LLM. Does it know about SCQubits? Can it help me find the eigenenergies of a transmon? Will it solve my homework for me? Let’s find out!
How would I use the SCQubits library to simulate the first 5 eigenenergies of a transmon with 50nA critical current and 100 fF shunt capacitance as a function of offset charge from 0 to 0.5?
Discussion: You’ll notice that this code block fails immediately, because the Transmon class requires an ncut definition. Additionally, it doesn’t really understand how transmon critical current and shunt capacitance translate to energy scales, so it just shoves the 50 nA and 100 fF values into the Ej and Ec parameters, respectively. Also, the correct method to use is get_spectrum_vs_paramvals().
