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Spring 2025 CUbit Quantum Seminar Series

ÌýÌýLight refreshments will be served starting at 3:30 p.m. Talk begins at 4 p.m.

Note: New Location!
Tuesday, April 29 Seminar
Now in the JILA Auditorium, with light refreshments in the JILA HBar.

This seminar series is sponsored by CUbit with generous support of the Caruso Foundation.

  • Who: Professor Steven Girvin (Yale)
  • Title: Towards Efficient Programmable Quantum Simulation of Correlated Bosons and Lattice Gauge Theories
  • Abstract: It is well-known that interacting fermions are difficult to simulate on quantum computers because of the sign problem. It is less widely appreciated that simulations of models containing bosons can also be difficult—unless the hardware contains native bosonic degrees of freedom. The ability of superconducting quantum processors to control and make quantum non-demolition (QND) measurements of individual microwave photons is a powerful resource for quantum simulation, especially for simulation of condensed matter models and lattice gauge theories containing bosons. I will illustrate these capabilities with recent experiments on a programmable quantum simulator that uses efficient boson sampling of microwave photons to predict the Franck-Condon vibrational spectra of various small molecules. I will also explore possible future directions for simulation of many-body quantum problems such as the fractional quantum Hall effect, and Z2 lattice gauge theories
ÌýLive only; no recording will be available

Past Events

Funded with the generous support of The Caruso Foundation.

Spring 2025 Seminars

  • Johannes Zeiher (Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics) Thursday, March 20, 2025
  • Dr. John Bowers, (University of California) Santa Barbara February 10th, 2025

Fall 2024 Seminars

  • Dr. Lawrence Cheuk, (Princeton) ÌýDecember 9, 2024
  • Professor Peter Rakich, (Yale) ÌýNovember 4, 2024
  • Dr. Michael Foss-Feig, (Quantinuum) ÌýOctober 7, 2024

Spring 2024 Seminars

  • Dr. Jeff Thompson (Princeton) April 30, 2024
  • Dr.Amir Safavi-Naeni, (Stanford) April 16, 2024
  • Antoine Browaeys (Institut d’Optique) February 27, 2024

Fall 2023 Seminars

  • Leticia Tarruell (Ultracold Quantum Gases, ICFO, Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology)December 11, 2023
  • John Preskill (Caltech) November 13, 2023
  • Christopher Monroe (Duke) October 23, 2023

Spring 2023 Seminars

  • Mikhail Lukin (Harvard)ÌýMay 1, 2023Ìý
  • Jon Simon (Stanford) April 10,Ìý2023Ìý
  • Amir Safavi-Naeini (Stanford) March 13,Ìý2023ÌýCANCELED due to illness.
  • Sabrina Maniscalco (University of Helsinki) February 6,Ìý2023Ìý
  • Nathalie de Leon (Princeton University)January 30,Ìý2023ÌýÌýÌýWatch TalkÌý

Fall 2022 Seminars

  • John Martinis (UC Santa Barbara)December 12, 2022
  • Ana Garcia (Columbia University)December 5, 2022
  • Ferdinand Kuemmeth (Niels Bohr Institute)November 7, 2022
  • Kartik A. SrinivasanÌý(NIST) October 24, 2022
  • Mark Eriksson (University of Wisconsin-Madison) October 17, 2022Ìý
    Quantum Computing Using Electron Spins in Silicon
  • Eugene Simon PolzikÌý(Niels Bohr Institute) September 26, 2022Ìý
    Quantum Physics with Macroscopic Objects
  • Rahul Nandkishore (CU Â鶹ӰԺ)ÌýAugust 29, 2022Ìý
    Fracton Dynamics

Spring 2022 Seminars

  • Hong Tang (Yale)ÌýApril 25, 2022Ìý
    Integrated Nonlinear Photonics for Quantum Frequency Conversion
  • Marko Loncar (Harvard)ÌýApril 18, 2022Ìý
    New Opportunities with Old Materials
  • John Doyle (Harvard)March 28, 2022
    Cold and Ultra-Cold Molecules for Quantum Science
  • Krister Shalm (NIST)February 14, 2022
    Quantum Entropy as a ServiceÌý

Fall 2021 Seminars

  • Jelena Vuckovic (Stanford) December 6, 2021
    Scalable Semiconductor Quantum SystemsÌý
  • Ben Bloom (Atom Computing)ÌýNovember 8, 2021
    Optically Trapped Atomic QubitsÌý
  • Will Oliver (MIT)October 11, 2021
    Giant Artifical Atoms and Waveguide QEDÌý
  • Scott Diddams (NIST)ÌýSeptember 13, 2021
    Optical Frequency Combs 2.0Ìý

Spring 2020 Seminars

  • John Martinis (UCSB,ÌýGoogle)ÌýFebruary 10, 2020
  • Alexander Gaeta (Columbia)ÌýScheduled February 24, 2020
  • Aram Harrow (MIT)ÌýScheduled March 9, 2020, postponed
  • Jelena Vuckovic (Stanford)ÌýScheduled April 13, 2020, postponed
  • John Doyle (Harvard)ÌýScheduled April 20, 2020, postponed

Spring 2019 Seminars

  • Ania Jayich (UCSB)ÌýFebruary 26, 2019
  • Andrei Faraon (Caltech)ÌýMarch 12, 2019
  • Markus Greiner (Harvard)ÌýMarch 19, 2019
  • Vladan Vuletic (MIT)ÌýApril 2, 2019
  • Kai-Mei Fu (UW Seattle)ÌýApril 30, 2019
  • Jack Harris (Yale)ÌýMay 14, 2019
  • Jonathan Home (ETH)ÌýMay 14, 2019

Fall 2019 Seminars

  • Nergis Mavalvala (MIT)ÌýSeptember 30, 2019
  • Dan Oron (Weizmann)ÌýOctober 28, 2019
  • Franco Wong (MIT)ÌýNovember 4, 2019
  • David Schuster (Chicago)ÌýNovember 18, 2019
  • Andrew Wilson (NIST)ÌýDecember 2, 2019

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