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Speaker Name/Affiliation
Corey Rae McRae / Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder
When
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Seminar Type
Location (Room)
JILA Auditorium
Event Details & Abstracts
Abstract: Superconducting quantum computers, once scaled up, could solve problems intractable to even the largest classical supercomputers, but better superconducting qubits are needed before this can occur. Superconducting qubit coherence is currently limited both by cryogenic low-power dielectric loss and by large temporal fluctuations due to strongly-coupled defects. In this talk, I discuss how single qubit performance is generally understood, models and proposed sources of decoherence, and new research disentangling decoherence channels in superconducting circuits, all of which is needed to build better, more scalable superconducting qubits.
The Physics Frontiers Centers (PFC) program supports university-based centers and institutes where the collective efforts of a larger group of individuals can enable transformational advances in the most promising research areas. The program is designed to foster major breakthroughs at the intellectual frontiers of physics by providing needed resources such as combinations of talents, skills, disciplines, and/or specialized infrastructure, not usually available to individual investigators or small groups, in an environment in which the collective efforts of the larger group can be shown to be seminal to promoting significant progress in the science and the education of students. PFCs also include creative, substantive activities aimed at enhancing education, broadening participation of traditionally underrepresented groups, and outreach to the scientific community and general public.