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Particle, High-Energy & Nuclear Systems

One analysis on a public dataset, from selection to a distribution with uncertainties.

Scale 10^-18 m to 10^-12 m

Can state what a cross-section is, in what units, and how it relates to an event rate. · Has written a Monte Carlo simulation and can explain its variance and how it was reduced. · Competent in statistics: likelihood, confidence intervals, and why a p-value is not a probability that a hypothesis is true. · Can write analysis code in Python or C++ that another person can run on the same data and reproduce. + 4 more

Particle, High-Energy & Nuclear Systems

The Monte Carlo pipelines: correctness, variance reduction, and making them run the same way twice.

Scale 10^-18 m to 10^-12 m

Can state what a cross-section is, in what units, and how it relates to an event rate. · Has written a Monte Carlo simulation and can explain its variance and how it was reduced. · Competent in statistics: likelihood, confidence intervals, and why a p-value is not a probability that a hypothesis is true. · Can write analysis code in Python or C++ that another person can run on the same data and reproduce. + 6 more

Particle, High-Energy & Nuclear Systems

The scientific direction of the division's computational programme and the standard its results meet.

Scale 10^-18 m to 10^-12 m

Can state what a cross-section is, in what units, and how it relates to an event rate. · Has written a Monte Carlo simulation and can explain its variance and how it was reduced. · Competent in statistics: likelihood, confidence intervals, and why a p-value is not a probability that a hypothesis is true. · Can write analysis code in Python or C++ that another person can run on the same data and reproduce. + 4 more

Ultra-Fundamental & Mathematical Physics

The hardest open problems the division holds, and the standard its derivations are held to.

Scale 10^-100 m to 10^-35 m

Can derive the Euler-Lagrange equations for a field theory from its action and state the symmetries that follow. · Fluent with tensor calculus in index and index-free notation, including covariant differentiation and curvature. · Has taken a graduate course in general relativity or quantum field theory and can reproduce its central derivations. · Can implement a numerical calculation in Python, Julia or C++ and state its convergence behaviour. + 5 more

Quantum, Atomic & Precision Systems

The division's scientific direction, and the hardest modelling problems it holds.

Scale 10^-12 m to 10^-8 m

Can write the state of a two-qubit system, apply a gate to it, and compute a measurement probability by hand. · Comfortable with Hermitian operators, eigendecomposition, tensor products and partial trace. · Has implemented a quantum circuit in Qiskit or an equivalent SDK and interpreted its output including noise. · Can state the difference between a simulated result and a result from hardware, and does so unprompted. + 4 more

Quantum, Atomic & Precision Systems

Algorithm design and honest resource estimation, including what it would take on hardware that exists.

Scale 10^-12 m to 10^-8 m

Can write the state of a two-qubit system, apply a gate to it, and compute a measurement probability by hand. · Comfortable with Hermitian operators, eigendecomposition, tensor products and partial trace. · Has implemented a quantum circuit in Qiskit or an equivalent SDK and interpreted its output including noise. · Can state the difference between a simulated result and a result from hardware, and does so unprompted. + 6 more

Quantum, Atomic & Precision Systems

Implementing and analysing a known quantum algorithm at a size that actually runs, and reporting where it stops being an advantage.

Scale 10^-12 m to 10^-8 m

Can write the state of a two-qubit system, apply a gate to it, and compute a measurement probability by hand. · Comfortable with Hermitian operators, eigendecomposition, tensor products and partial trace. · Has implemented a quantum circuit in Qiskit or an equivalent SDK and interpreted its output including noise. · Can state the difference between a simulated result and a result from hardware, and does so unprompted. + 4 more

Ultra-Fundamental & Mathematical Physics

The regime where quantum theory and cosmology have to be written in the same equations, and what that costs.

Scale 10^-100 m to 10^26 m

Can derive the Euler-Lagrange equations for a field theory from its action and state the symmetries that follow. · Fluent with tensor calculus in index and index-free notation, including covariant differentiation and curvature. · Has taken a graduate course in general relativity or quantum field theory and can reproduce its central derivations. · Can implement a numerical calculation in Python, Julia or C++ and state its convergence behaviour. + 5 more

Quantum, Atomic & Precision Systems

Turning a quantum model into working, tested code that other divisions can build on.

Scale 10^-12 m to 10^-8 m

Can write the state of a two-qubit system, apply a gate to it, and compute a measurement probability by hand. · Comfortable with Hermitian operators, eigendecomposition, tensor products and partial trace. · Has implemented a quantum circuit in Qiskit or an equivalent SDK and interpreted its output including noise. · Can state the difference between a simulated result and a result from hardware, and does so unprompted. + 4 more

Quantum, Atomic & Precision Systems

What this division builds, who builds it, and the rule that no quantum claim ships without its classical baseline.

Scale 10^-12 m to 10^-8 m

Can write the state of a two-qubit system, apply a gate to it, and compute a measurement probability by hand. · Comfortable with Hermitian operators, eigendecomposition, tensor products and partial trace. · Has implemented a quantum circuit in Qiskit or an equivalent SDK and interpreted its output including noise. · Can state the difference between a simulated result and a result from hardware, and does so unprompted. + 4 more

Ultra-Fundamental & Mathematical Physics

A literature-grounded comparison of how two quantum-gravity programmes treat the same limiting case.

Scale 10^-100 m to 10^-35 m

Can derive the Euler-Lagrange equations for a field theory from its action and state the symmetries that follow. · Fluent with tensor calculus in index and index-free notation, including covariant differentiation and curvature. · Has taken a graduate course in general relativity or quantum field theory and can reproduce its central derivations. · Can implement a numerical calculation in Python, Julia or C++ and state its convergence behaviour. + 5 more

Ultra-Fundamental & Mathematical Physics

Sustained work inside one quantum-gravity framework, including the parts of it that do not work.

Scale 10^-100 m to 10^-35 m

Can derive the Euler-Lagrange equations for a field theory from its action and state the symmetries that follow. · Fluent with tensor calculus in index and index-free notation, including covariant differentiation and curvature. · Has taken a graduate course in general relativity or quantum field theory and can reproduce its central derivations. · Can implement a numerical calculation in Python, Julia or C++ and state its convergence behaviour. + 5 more

Quantum, Atomic & Precision Systems

Materials whose useful behaviour is quantum, and the calculations that predict it.

Scale 10^-10 m to 10^-8 m

Can write the state of a two-qubit system, apply a gate to it, and compute a measurement probability by hand. · Comfortable with Hermitian operators, eigendecomposition, tensor products and partial trace. · Has implemented a quantum circuit in Qiskit or an equivalent SDK and interpreted its output including noise. · Can state the difference between a simulated result and a result from hardware, and does so unprompted. + 6 more

Quantum, Atomic & Precision Systems

One quantum system simulated end to end, with a noise model and a classical comparison.

Scale 10^-12 m to 10^-8 m

Can write the state of a two-qubit system, apply a gate to it, and compute a measurement probability by hand. · Comfortable with Hermitian operators, eigendecomposition, tensor products and partial trace. · Has implemented a quantum circuit in Qiskit or an equivalent SDK and interpreted its output including noise. · Can state the difference between a simulated result and a result from hardware, and does so unprompted. + 4 more

Quantum, Atomic & Precision Systems

Sensing schemes and their real noise floors, including where a quantum advantage disappears in practice.

Scale 10^-12 m to 10^-8 m

Can write the state of a two-qubit system, apply a gate to it, and compute a measurement probability by hand. · Comfortable with Hermitian operators, eigendecomposition, tensor products and partial trace. · Has implemented a quantum circuit in Qiskit or an equivalent SDK and interpreted its output including noise. · Can state the difference between a simulated result and a result from hardware, and does so unprompted. + 6 more

Quantum, Atomic & Precision Systems

Simulating a small many-body Hamiltonian and checking the result against an exact solution.

Scale 10^-12 m to 10^-8 m

Can write the state of a two-qubit system, apply a gate to it, and compute a measurement probability by hand. · Comfortable with Hermitian operators, eigendecomposition, tensor products and partial trace. · Has implemented a quantum circuit in Qiskit or an equivalent SDK and interpreted its output including noise. · Can state the difference between a simulated result and a result from hardware, and does so unprompted. + 4 more

Quantum, Atomic & Precision Systems

The engineering around a quantum experiment: control stacks, calibration routines, data paths.

Scale 10^-12 m to 10^-8 m

Can write the state of a two-qubit system, apply a gate to it, and compute a measurement probability by hand. · Comfortable with Hermitian operators, eigendecomposition, tensor products and partial trace. · Has implemented a quantum circuit in Qiskit or an equivalent SDK and interpreted its output including noise. · Can state the difference between a simulated result and a result from hardware, and does so unprompted. + 6 more

Particle, High-Energy & Nuclear Systems

A whole question in the division's programme, framed, computed and reported with its limits.

Scale 10^-18 m to 10^-12 m

Can state what a cross-section is, in what units, and how it relates to an event rate. · Has written a Monte Carlo simulation and can explain its variance and how it was reduced. · Competent in statistics: likelihood, confidence intervals, and why a p-value is not a probability that a hypothesis is true. · Can write analysis code in Python or C++ that another person can run on the same data and reproduce. + 4 more

Particle, High-Energy & Nuclear Systems

Several analyses at once, and the statistical judgement applied to all of them.

Scale 10^-18 m to 10^-12 m

Can state what a cross-section is, in what units, and how it relates to an event rate. · Has written a Monte Carlo simulation and can explain its variance and how it was reduced. · Competent in statistics: likelihood, confidence intervals, and why a p-value is not a probability that a hypothesis is true. · Can write analysis code in Python or C++ that another person can run on the same data and reproduce. + 4 more

Quantum, Atomic & Precision Systems

Several quantum workstreams at once, and the benchmarking standard applied to all of them.

Scale 10^-12 m to 10^-8 m

Can write the state of a two-qubit system, apply a gate to it, and compute a measurement probability by hand. · Comfortable with Hermitian operators, eigendecomposition, tensor products and partial trace. · Has implemented a quantum circuit in Qiskit or an equivalent SDK and interpreted its output including noise. · Can state the difference between a simulated result and a result from hardware, and does so unprompted. + 4 more

Ultra-Fundamental & Mathematical Physics

Several related theoretical problems at once, and the technical judgement of the researchers working on them.

Scale 10^-100 m to 10^-35 m

Can derive the Euler-Lagrange equations for a field theory from its action and state the symmetries that follow. · Fluent with tensor calculus in index and index-free notation, including covariant differentiation and curvature. · Has taken a graduate course in general relativity or quantum field theory and can reproduce its central derivations. · Can implement a numerical calculation in Python, Julia or C++ and state its convergence behaviour. + 5 more

Ultra-Fundamental & Mathematical Physics

The technical authority on how the division treats causal structure, horizons and background independence.

Scale 10^-100 m to 10^-35 m

Can derive the Euler-Lagrange equations for a field theory from its action and state the symmetries that follow. · Fluent with tensor calculus in index and index-free notation, including covariant differentiation and curvature. · Has taken a graduate course in general relativity or quantum field theory and can reproduce its central derivations. · Can implement a numerical calculation in Python, Julia or C++ and state its convergence behaviour. + 5 more

Ultra-Fundamental & Mathematical Physics

Independent responsibility for one component of a larger derivation, and for checking it against its classical limit.

Scale 10^-100 m to 10^-35 m

Can derive the Euler-Lagrange equations for a field theory from its action and state the symmetries that follow. · Fluent with tensor calculus in index and index-free notation, including covariant differentiation and curvature. · Has taken a graduate course in general relativity or quantum field theory and can reproduce its central derivations. · Can implement a numerical calculation in Python, Julia or C++ and state its convergence behaviour. + 5 more

Ultra-Fundamental & Mathematical Physics

One scoped calculation inside a chosen quantum-gravity framework, carried through to a written result with its assumptions listed.

Scale 10^-100 m to 10^-35 m

Can derive the Euler-Lagrange equations for a field theory from its action and state the symmetries that follow. · Fluent with tensor calculus in index and index-free notation, including covariant differentiation and curvature. · Has taken a graduate course in general relativity or quantum field theory and can reproduce its central derivations. · Can implement a numerical calculation in Python, Julia or C++ and state its convergence behaviour. + 5 more