Quantum Information with Solid-State Devices

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Lecture Notes

12 March 2012 - Lecture 1 Introduction

QISS Lecture 1 Slides
QISS Lecture 1 Notes
Home Exercise 1
Home Exercise 1 Solution
MATLAB code for exercise 1

26 March 2012 - Lecture 2 Qubits

QISS Lecture 2 Slides
QISS Lecture 2 Notes
Home Exercise 2
Home Exercise 2 Solution
Useful MATLAB code to solve the exercises: pauli.m

16 April 2012 - Lecture 3 Relaxation and Dephasing

QISS Lecture 3 Slides
QISS Lecture 3 Notes
Home Exercise 3
Home Exercise 3 Solution

30 April 2012 - Lecture 4 Quantum Gates and Algorithms

QISS Lecture 4 Notes
Home Exercise 4
Home Exercise 4 Solution

7. May 2012 - Lecture 5 Josephson Effect

QISS Lecture 5 Slides
QISS Lecture 5 Notes
Home Exercise 5
Home Exercise 5 Solution

14. May 2012 - Lecture 6 Single Charge Devices

QISS Lecture 6 Slides
QISS Lecture 6 Notes
Home Exercise 6
Home Exercise 6 Solution

4. June 2012 - Lecture 7 Cooper-pair box

QISS Lecture 7 Slides
QISS Lecture 7 Notes
Home Exercise 7
Home Exercise 7 Solution

11. June 2012 - Lecture 8 Superconducting Qubits

QISS Lecture 8 Slides
QISS Lecture 8 Notes
Home Exercise 8
Home Exercise 8 Solution

18. June 2012 - Lecture 9 Circuit Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics

QISS Lecture 9 Slides
QISS Lecture 9 Notes
Home Exercise 9
Home Exercise 9 Solution

25. June 2012 - Lecture 10 Nitrogen-Vacancy Center in Diamond

QISS Lecture 10 Slides
QISS Lecture 10 Notes

Exam

Choose one of the following papers:

I. Chiorescu, P. Bertet, K. Semba, Y. Nakamura, C. J. P. M. Harmans, and J. E. Mooij, Coherent dynamics of a flux qubit coupled to a harmonic oscillator, Nature 431, 159--162 (2004)

J. H. Plantenberg, P. C. de Groot, C. J. P. M. Harmans, and J. E. Mooij, Demonstration of controlled-NOT quantum gates on a pair of superconducting quantum bits, Nature 447, 836--839 (2007/06/14/print)

Yu. A. Pashkin, T. Yamamoto, O. Astafiev, Y. Nakamura, D. V. Averin, and J. S. Tsai, Quantum oscillations in two coupled charge qubits, Nature 421, 823--826 (2003)

Max Hofheinz, H. Wang, M. Ansmann, Radoslaw C. Bialczak, Erik Lucero, M. Neeley, A. D. O'Connell, D. Sank, J. Wenner, John M. Martinis, and A. N. Cleland, Synthesizing arbitrary quantum states in a superconducting resonator, Nature 459, 546--549 (2009)

A. O. Niskanen, K. Harrabi, F. Yoshihara, Y. Nakamura, S. Lloyd, and J. S. Tsai, Quantum Coherent Tunable Coupling of Superconducting Qubits, Science 316, 723--726 (2007)

I. Chiorescu, P. Bertet, K. Semba, Y. Nakamura, C. J. P. M. Harmans, and J. E. Mooij, Coherent dynamics of a flux qubit coupled to a harmonic oscillator, Nature 431, 159--162 (2004)

R. McDermott, R. W. Simmonds, Matthias Steffen, K. B. Cooper, K. Cicak, K. D. Osborn, Seongshik Oh, D. P. Pappas, and John M. Martinis, Simultaneous State Measurement of Coupled Josephson Phase Qubits, Science 307, 1299--1302 (2005)

Mika A. Sillanpaa, Jae I. Park, and Raymond W. Simmonds, Coherent quantum state storage and transfer between two phase qubits via a resonant cavity, Nature 449, 438--442 (2007)

and make an appointement with me johannes.majer[at]tuwien.ac.at

Lecture Announcement

Reading Material

Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, M. A. Nielsen, I, L. Chuang, Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 052163503
Quantum Mechanics Vol. 1, C. Cohen-Tannoudji, B. Diu, F. Laloe, Wiley, ISBN: 978-0-471-16433-3
Introduction to Solid State Physics, C. Kittel, Wiley John + Sons, ISBN: 978-0471415268
Introduction to Superconductivity, M. Tinkham, Dover Pubn Inc, ISBN: 978-0486435039
Foundations of Applied Superconductivity T. P. Orlando K. A. Delin, Addison Wesley, ISBN: 978-0201183238
Superconducting Qubits: A Short Review, M. H. Devoret, A. Wallraff, J. M. Martinis arXiv:cond-mat/0411174

QISS 2010

The information on the class from the summer semester 2010 can be found on the old website http://majer.ch/qiss2010.

Contact

johannes.majer[at]tuwien.ac.at