YQI Talk - Daniel Weiss - Northwestern

Event time: 
Tuesday, November 2, 2021 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Audience: 
YQI Researchers
Location: 
Hybrid - YQI Seminar Room/Zoom See map
Event description: 
Analyzing large superconducting circuits using solid-state inspired techniques
 
A promising avenue towards achieving enhanced coherence times in superconducting qubits is protecting them from noise by design. Such protected circuits are typically larger and more complicated than the one-dimensional transmon, and thus difficult to analyze. Here I present results for spectra and coherence times of Kitaev’s current-mirror circuit, an early proposal for a protected qubit and precursor to the 0-pi circuit. To this end we develop and employ methods inspired by solid-state physics to tackle the challenges of analyzing circuits of increased complexity.
 
Hybrid - In person in YQI Seminar Room/ Streaming here on Zoom