SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

“Physics of Information”
An A.D. White Professors-at-Large keynote public event
Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024, at 4:30pm
201 Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall
Open to all.

Cornell Quantum Day (fall 2024)
A Quantum Science & Engineering event
Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024
9:00am-3:30pm
700 Clark Hall
Open to all.

SCHEDULE
10:30-10:55am Soorya Rethinasamy
Neutron-nucleus dynamics simulations for quantum computers

11:00-11:25am Keiran Lewellen
Dynamical control of Fluxonium qubits

11:30-11:55am Aditya Kolhatkar
Title: TBD

1:10-2:00pm Michel Devoret (A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell; University of California at Santa Barbara; and Google Quantum AI)
“Measurement-induced transitions in superconducting quantum circuits?”
(Work performed at Yale Quantum Institute)
Abstract: Readout and gate operations in qubits implemented in quantum superconducting circuits are performed by applying microwave drive tones to the circuit. The simultaneous pursuit of fidelity and speed of these operations by increasing drive strength is limited by unwanted drive-induced state transitions allowed by the nonlinearity. We experimentally address the origin of these adverse state transitions in a driven transmon by measuring transition probabilities as a function of drive frequency and power. We show that there are three distinct mechanisms for adverse transitions caused by the drive: 1) excitation of intrinsic resonances between computational and non-computational states within the transmon spectrum, 2) drive-activated nonlinear processes involving extrinsic degrees of freedoms such as packaging or transmission line modes, 3) AC Stark shift of qubit frequency into resonance with lossy degrees of freedom in the qubit environment. Our findings provide insights into the improvement of readout and gate operations on superconducting qubits.

Break: 2:00-2:20pm

2:20-2:45pm James Wang
Optimizing Trapped Ion Spin Interactions for Scalable Quantum Simulations

2:50-3:15pm Malek Succar
Ingress Cryogenic Receivers Towards Scalable Quantum Information Processors: Theory and System Analysis

Break: 3:15-3:35pm

3:35-4:00pm Sridhar Prabhu
Quantum sensing-computational advantage using hybrid quantum sensor-processors

4:05-4:30pm Yiqing Zhou
Machine Learning-Based Surface Code Decoding for Logical Circuits

4:30-5:30pm Poster session

All events are cosponsored by the School of Applied and Engineering Physics.

Valla Fatemi (Assistant Professor, School of Applied and Engineering Physics) serves as faculty host.
Gregory D. Fuchs (Associate Professor, School of Applied and Engineering Physics) serves as faculty co-host.