Physics Colloquium: Circuit QED: From Materials to Mathematics
Speaker: |
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Andrew Houck, Princeton |
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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. |