R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminars |
Events During the Week of December 6th through December 13th, 2015
Monday, December 7th, 2015
- No events scheduled
Tuesday, December 8th, 2015
- No events scheduled
Wednesday, December 9th, 2015
- No events scheduled
Thursday, December 10th, 2015
- Design and modeling of superconducting hardware for quantum computation and simulation
- Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am
- Place: Chamberlin 5310
- Speaker: Jens Koch, Northwestern University
- Abstract: Despite extraordinary challenges, research worldwide has led to remarkable advances in the exquisite control of individual quantum systems. Today, microwave-controlled superconducting circuits represent one of the “hot” candidates for the quantum hardware needed in a future quantum computer. I will give a brief review of the history, summarize how quantum mechanics manifests in these circuits, and then present theory work on developing a next generation of superconducting qubits using superinductor circuit elements. The new devices may realize intrinsic error protection by employing energy-degenerate wave functions with disjoint support. I will end with an outlook on the use of superconducting qubits in photon-based quantum simulation.
- Host: Vavilov
Friday, December 11th, 2015
- No events scheduled