by Professor Mohammad Maghrebi, Michigan State University

Due to their exquisite control, quantum simulators have emerged as a platform to emulate quantum systems that are not fully understood, and even to realize novel quantum states with no counterpart in Nature. However, dissipation due to the coupling to the environment poses a formidable challenge to preparing and manipulating quantum states. In this talk, I argue that dissipation can also be viewed as a resource. To this end, I present a first example where engineered /structured dissipation gives rise to a quantum phase transition. Furthermore, I argue that dissipation is a computational resource too---I will introduce a hybrid quantum-classical approach that, utilizing dissipation, allows one to simulate the dynamics of (many-body) systems with immediate applications to a large class of quantum simulators.