Physics Colloquium: Circuit QED: From Materials to Mathematics
Feb 16, 2022 4:00 pm

- Sponsor
- Department of Physics
- Speaker
- Andrew Houck, Princeton
- Contact
- Kelly Darr
- khdarr@illinois.edu
- Phone
- 12173007821
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- Originating Calendar
- Physics - Colloquium
Superconducting circuits provide a useful toolbox for science at the intersection of many different fields – materials, devices, physics, computer science, and mathematics. I will describe how our work with this platform spans these fields, drawing insight from many sources to advance the state of the art. In particular, I will show how materials science can lead to insight into improved qubit coherence; how Hamiltonian engineering can be used to immunize qubits against noise and provide faster gates; and how lattices of qubits and cavities can draw on graph theory to realize flat bands and novel fragile topological states.