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Mark Everitt
Mark
Everitt
Michael Henshaw
Michael
Henshaw
Vincent Dwyer
Vincent
Dwyer
Quantum systems engineering: a structured approach to accelerating the development of a quantum technology industry
Loughborough University
2016
Quantum
Design for
Reliability
Test
Scalability
Systems integration
Mechanical Engineering not elsewhere classified
2016-09-06 12:01:32
Conference contribution
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/conference_contribution/Quantum_systems_engineering_a_structured_approach_to_accelerating_the_development_of_a_quantum_technology_industry/9556898
The exciting possibilities in the field of new quantum technologies extend far beyond the well-reported application
of quantum computing. Precision timing, gravity sensors and imagers, cryptography, navigation, metrology,
energy harvesting and recovery, biomedical sensors and imagers, and real-time optimisers all indicate the potential
for quantum technologies to provide the basis of a technological revolution. From the field of Systems Engineering
emerges a focused strategy for the development cycle, enabling the existence of hugely complex products. It is
through the adoption of systems thinking that the semiconductor industry has achieved massive industrial and
economic impact. Quantum technologies rely on delicate, non-local and/or entangled degrees of freedom —
leading to great potential, but also posing new challenges to the development of products and industries. We
discuss some of the challenges and opportunities regarding the implementation of Systems Engineering and
systems thinking into the quantum technologies space.