Crowdsourcing human common sense for quantum control

Citizen science methodologies have over the past decade been applied with great success to help solve highly complex numerical challenges. Here, we take early steps in quantum physics arena by introducing a citizen game, Quantum Moves 2, and compare performance of different optimization methods across three optimal control problems varying difficulty. Inside players can apply gradient-based algorithm (running locally on their device) optimize solutions find that these results perform roughly par best tested standard performed computer cluster. In addition, cluster-optimized player seeds was only method exhibit all This highlights potential for crowdsourcing solution future research problems.