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Think Tank
Systems desk
A think tank is a way of arranging questions so that each one is tested by more than one kind of work. The Systems desk sets out how Backett Howe arranges it.
- Question
- Computation desk
- Simulation desk
- Measurement desk
- Systems desk
- Published note
What the term means here
Backett Howe is a think tank in London. It is not a fund. It does not sell a product, and no note is written to support a sale.
The work is the note. A note states a concept, shows how it is arranged, and says what was and was not recorded. The full set sits in the portfolio.
How the desks are arranged
A question starts at the Computation desk, which fixes the model. For quantum work, that is the kind of object described in Quantum circuit model. The Simulation desk then runs it where it can. Two routes sit beside each other: State-vector simulation and Tensor-network contraction.
The Measurement desk asks what can be read out and how far to trust it. See Measurement and sampling and Noise and error. The Systems desk then joins the parts and writes the note. Its related work is Hybrid execution.
Limits of the arrangement
The order is a convention, not a law. A question can return to an earlier desk if a later one finds a flaw. The note should say when that happened.
A desk does not claim a result it did not record. Where a figure, date or identifier is missing, the note leaves it out. Readers who want the wider scheme can start from the documentation index.
Finding from this desk
Backett Howe works as four desks that take one question in turn. Each desk publishes what it did and what it did not do, so a reader can check the chain.