Abstract: It might seem that mainstream in Quantum Computing nowadays is completely focused on beating classical computers -quantum supremacy- in tasks with -quantum utility- or without practical applications. However, it might be instructive to recall that this area of research was born and developed mostly due to theoretical curiosity, namely from the exploration of fundamental properties of quantum mechanics, such as quantum entanglement. In this talk, after a general introduction on state-of-the-art quantum computers and simulators, I will present several examples of quantum simulators motivated only by their theoretical interest.

Speaker Bio: Researcher in the fields of quantum technologies, and quantum information, simulation and computation. PhD UCM 2011. Then University of Nottingham 2012-2015 (first postdoctoral researcher and then assistant professor). Then IFF-CSIC (ComFuturo researcher 2015-2018, la Caixa Junior Leader 2018-2021). Since September 2021, Ramón y Cajal Researcher DFT-UAM.

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