Nature Physics Cover Page – Chaos and Entanglement
Featured on the cover of the November 2016 issue of Nature Physics: Our article on the realization of a quantum kicked top provides evidence for ergodic dynamics and thermalization in a small quantum system consisting of three superconducting qubits.
State preservation by repetitive error detection in a superconducting quantum circuit
Superconducting circuits at the surface code threshold for fault tolerance
2014 NSF Fellows
Congratulations to Zijun “Jimmy” Chen and Chris Quintana on being awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships for 2014.
Nature Physics Cover Page
This illustration by Dario Mariantoni and our own Erik Lucero and Matteo Mariantoni graced the April 2011 cover of Nature Physics along with an article on shuffling photons between resonators in the ReZQu architecture.
Superconducting Qubits featured by the BBC
This photo by Erik Lucero illustrates our lab’s ReZQu qubit architecture, the focus of a BBC article.
AAAS Science “Breakthrough of the year”
Pictured above is the actual device used in the experiment. The mechanical resonator, which was placed in a superposition, is situated in the bottom left of the chip. The smaller white rectangle is the coupling capacitor between the mechanical resonator and the qubit. Photo by Erik Lucero.
Superconducting Qubits featured in the New York Times
This photo by our own Erik Lucero is featured in the New York Times article highlighting our recent work on generating three-qubit entanglement (Neeley et al., Nature 467, 570-573 (2010). See publications.) along with work from the Schoelkopf group at Yale.
Superconducting Qubits featured in Physics Today
This photo by our own Erik Lucero graced the cover of the July 2009 issue of Physics Today, along with a feature article about superconducting qubits. The article discusses our work on arbitrary state generation in a harmonic oscillator (Hofheinz et al., Nature 459, 546-549 (2009). Seepublications.) as well as work from the Schoelkopf group at Yale. More recently, the photo was featured again on the cover of Quantum Measurement and Control by Wiseman and Milburn.
Current Research
Our research goal is to build a quantum computer using superconductors. Much of our effort is devoted to understanding the basic physics of decoherence (error) mechanisms in Josephson junction devices. Pictured below is a wafer with test dies that we use to measure two-qubit logic gates.