Conference on mesoscopic physics and superconducting quantum circuits
Conference Location: Serin 330, 136 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854
Conference Date: March 31 – April 1, 2023
Superconducting circuits have emerged as a promising platform for large-scale quantum computers due to their ability to implement strongly interacting artificial atoms with a high ratio of coherence time to operation time. In recent years, there has been a synergistic effort to understand and mitigate sources of decoherence and noise, such as quasiparticles and two-level fluctuators, as well as the design of circuits that are less susceptible to environmental noise. This collaborative effort has resulted in a five-order-of-magnitude improvement in superconducting circuit coherence times over the past two decades. Despite these rapid advances, fault tolerant quantum computation remains a major challenge, and may require new circuit designs, fabrication techniques, and a deeper understanding of the sources of noise and techniques for their mitigation.
This interdisciplinary workshop will bring together experts in the field to explore the latest research at the intersection of mesoscopic physics and superconducting quantum circuits. Topics of discussion will include:
- Superconducting quantum computing
- Superconductivity in mesoscopic and granular systems
- Decoherence in superconducting qubits
- Noise-protected circuits
- Mesoscopic physics of disordered systems
- Quantum materials for quantum information science
An additional theme of this event is to honor the retirement of Prof. Michael Gershenson and recognize his broad range of contributions to these subjects.
Interested students, postdocs, and professors are welcome to attend the event! Attendees will have the opportunity to hear from leading researchers and engage in discussions about the current state and future directions of this exciting field.
Students who are interested in presenting posters should email titles and abstracts to mishafest2023@gmail.com by Friday, 03/17/2023.
The conference dinner will be held on Friday night at Sahara restaurant in New Brunswick. The participants and accompanying persons who are interested in the conference dinner are requested to register with Mickerline before March 21st and pay $40 per person.
A list of invited speakers and the conference program can be found below.
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Lev Ioffe Google Boris Altshuler Columbia University David Schuster Stanford University Will Oliver MIT Jens Koch Northwestern University Eva Dupont-Ferrier Institut Quantique, Université de Sherbrooke Alexei Tsvelik Brookhaven National Laboratory Sergey Vitkalov City University of New York Matthew Bell UMass Boston Sasha Finkel’stein Weizman Institute Boris Spivak University of Washington Nick Butch NIST Alberto Morpurgo Université de Genéve Wen-Sen Lu IBM Joe Aumentado NIST Mikhail Feigel’man LPMMC, Grenoble & Landau Institute, Chernogolovka -
Day 1 (March 31,2023):
All talks will be 30 mins + 15 mins of discussions
Breakfast and coffee: 8:30 am – 9:00 am
Session 1 (9 am-11:30 am):
Session chair: Matthew Bell
- 9:00 am – 9:30 am: Opening remarks (Matt Bell – University of Massachusetts Boston, John Hughes – Chair of Rutgers Department of Physics and Astronomy, Thu Nguyen, Dean of Mathematical and Physical Sciences)
- 9:30 am – 10:00 am: Boris Altshuler – Columbia University
- 10:15 am – 10:45 am: Eva Dupont-Ferrier – Université de Sherbrooke
- Coffee break and discussion: 11:00 am – 11:30 am
Session 2 (11:30 am – 1 pm):
Session chair: Wen-Sen Lu
- 11:30 am – 12:00 pm: Lev Ioffe – Google
- 12:15 pm – 12:45 pm: Mikhail Feigel’man – LPMMC, Grenoble & Landau Institute, Chernogolovka, “Gapful electrons in a vortex core of granular superconductors”
Session 3 (1 pm – 3:30 pm):
- Lunch break and start of poster session 1: 1 pm – 2 pm
- Poster session and discussion: 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Session 4 (3:00 pm – 6:00 pm):
Session chair: Ananda Roy
- 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm: Sasha Finkel’stein – Weizmann Institute, “Fluctuation-induced odd-frequency spin-triplet pairing in a disordered electron liquid”
- 3:45 pm – 4:15 pm: Boris Spivak – University of Washington, “Debye mechanism of giant microwave absorption in superconductors”
- 4:15 – 4:30 pm: Coffee break and questions
- 4:30 pm –5:00 pm: Joe Aumentado – NIST, “Deconstructing the TWPA“
- 5:15 pm – 5:45 pm: Will Oliver – MIT, “Waveguide QED with Superconducting Circuits”
Conference dinner: 7 pm – 9:30 pm
Day 2 (April 1,2023):
Breakfast and coffee: 8:30 am – 9:00 am
Session 5 (9 am-11:00 am):
Session chair: Kostya Kalashnikov
- 9 am – 9:30 am: David Schuster – Stanford
- 9:45 am – 10:15 am: Jens Koch – Northwestern, “Seeking shelter and protection on exploratory roads towards quantum computing“
- 10:30 am – 11:00 am: Wen-Sen Lu – IBM, “Modular quantum system: a viable path towards near term quantum advantage”
- Coffee break and discussion: 11:00 am – 11:30 am
Session 6 (11 am – 12:30 pm):
Session chair: Eva Dupont Ferrier
- 11:30 am – 12:00 pm: Alberto Morpurgo – Université de Genéve, “New ways to probe and control the electronic properties of 2D materials by electrostatic gating”
- 12:15 am – 12:45 pm: Vladimir Pudalov – Lebedev Physical Institute, “Quasi Two – Dimensional Superconductors and Topological Materials with AFM Ordering”
Lunch and discussion (12:45 pm – 2 pm)
Session 7 (2 pm – 4:30 pm):
Session chair: Srivatsan Chakram
- 2 pm– 2:30 pm: Sergey Vitkalov – City University of New York
- 2:45 pm – 3:15 pm: Nick Butch – NIST, “Multiple superconducting phases and spin-triplet physics in UTe2”
- 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm: Coffee break and discussion
- 4:15 pm – 4:45 pm: Alexei Tsvelik – Brookhaven National Laboratory, “Chiral Kondo lattices as platforms for anyons”
- 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm: Closing remarks (Conference organizing committee members and Michael Gershenson)
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V. Bruevich, L. Kasaei, S. Rangan, H. Hijazi, Z. Zhang, T. Emge, E. Y. Andrei, R. A. Bartynski, L. C. Feldman, and V. Podzorov Epitaxial single-crystal perovskite FETs. Ahana Chakraborty Universality class of the Measurement-induced Phase Transition with a U(1) Conservation Law Phanibhushan Mohapatra Quantum breakdown of superconductivity in twisted trilayer graphene Tamaghna Hazra Triplet pairing mechanisms in Hund’s-Kondo models – applications to UTe2 and other heavy fermion superconductors Jordan Huang, Thomas Dinapoli, Eesh Gupta, Shivam Patel, Plamen Kamenov, Srivatsan Chakram Quantum information processing with multimode circuit QED -
Photos from the conference can be found in the link here.
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Conference Chair
- Mathew Bell, Umass Boston
Conference program committee
- Girsh Blumberg, Rutgers University
- Srivatsan Chakram, Rutgers University
- Lev Ioffe, Google
- Natan Andrei, Rutgers University
Additional Local Organizing committee
- Ananda Roy, Rutgers University
- Jedadiah Pixley, Rutgers University
Program Advisor
- Michael Gershenson, Rutgers University
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Attendees are encouraged to stay at the Rutgers Inn, or at the Hyatt Regency, in downtown New Brunswick.
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We acknowledge financial support from the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM), and logistical support from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Center for Materials Theory at Rutgers.
