Jones Seminar: Progress and Prospects for the Second Quantum Revolution and the Race to Build "Impossible" Computers

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The first quantum revolution brought us the great technological advances of the 20th century—the transistor, the laser, the atomic clock and GPS, the global positioning system. We now realize that this 20th century hardware does not take full advantage of the power of quantum machines. A second quantum revolution is now underway based on our relatively new understanding of how information can be stored, manipulated, and communicated using strange quantum hardware that is neither fully digital nor fully analog.    

This talk will give a gentle introduction to the basic concepts that underlie this quantum information revolution and describe major challenges as well as recent remarkable experimental progress in the race to build quantum machines for computing, sensing and communication.

Hosted by Professor Mattias Fitzpatrick.

About the Speaker(s)

Steven Girvin
Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics, Yale

Steven M. Girvin is the Sterling Professor of Physics and Professor of Applied Physics at Yale University. After completing his undergraduate degree in physics from Bates College, Professor Girvin earned his PhD in theoretical physics from Princeton University, and joined the Yale faculty in 2001. From 2007 to 2017 he served as Yale's Deputy Provost for Research, and from 2019 to 2021, he served as founding director of the Co-Design Center for Quantum Advantage, one of five national quantum information science research centers funded by the Department of Energy.  

Along with his experimenter colleagues Michel Devoret and Robert Schoelkopf,  Girvin co-developed 'circuit QED,' the leading architecture for construction of quantum computers based on superconducting microwave circuits. He is a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, member of the US National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a co-winner of the Oliver E. Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society for his work in quantum many-body physics.

Contact

For more information, contact Amos Johnson at amos.l.johnson@dartmouth.edu.