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Physics Colloquium: Circuit QED: From Materials to Mathematics

Speaker: Andrew Houck, Princeton
Date: 2/16/2022
Time: 4 p.m.
Location: https://illinois.zoom.us/j/86282323657?pwd=WDJDUzNnMUR0VE9rOTRVdTFIVFdqdz09
Event Contact: Kelly Darr
12173007821
khdarr@illinois.edu
Sponsor: Department of Physics
Event Type: Seminar/Symposium
 

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.