• Speaker: Florian Ungerechts
• Event Type: Seminar
• Date and Time: 06/13/2025 2:30 pm - 06/13/2025 3:30 pm
• Location: Willamette 240D

The Trapped-Ion Quantum Engineering group at Leibniz University of Hannover (LUH) and thePhysikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) studies the physics of trapped ions inradiofrequency and Penning traps. We provide an overview of the group and report on… Read More

• Speaker: Isabella Goetting
• Event Type: Seminar
• Date and Time: 06/13/2025 1:00 pm - 06/13/2025 2:00 pm
• Location: Willamette 240D

Addressing the problem of scalability in quantum computing systems has become increasingly more relevant and of utmost importance to achieving quantum advantage. Adopting a modular approach using photonic interconnects between quantum processors is necess… Read More

• Speaker: Rainer Blatt
• Event Type: Seminar
• Date and Time: 05/30/2025 10:00 am - 05/30/2025 11:00 am
• Location: Willamette 240D

• Speaker: Eli Gerber
• Event Type: Seminar
• Date and Time: 03/14/2025 3:30 pm - 03/14/2025 4:30 pm
• Location: Willamette 240D

The electronic structure of 3D bismuth has been experimentally and theoretically revealed to host topologically protected conducting 1D helical modes. Recent magnetotransport measurements of crystalline bismuth quantum wires connected to superconducting e… Read More

• Speaker: Mo Chen
• Event Type: Seminar
• Date and Time: 03/10/2025 3:30 pm - 03/10/2025 4:30 pm
• Location: Willamette 240D

Superconducting qubits are among the leading platforms for realizing fault-tolerant quantum computation. However, atomic-scale material defects, known as two-level systems (TLS), naturally occur at the surfaces and interfaces of all materials that constit… Read More

• Speaker: John Monnier
• Event Type: Seminar
• Date and Time: 02/17/2025 3:30 pm - 02/17/2025 4:30 pm
• Location: Willamette 240D

Optical and infrared interferometry has transformed high-angular-resolution astronomy, revealing stellar surfaces, mass transfer in binaries, the inner structure of planet-forming disks, exoplanet atmospheres, and the Galactic Center black hole. I will hi… Read More

• Speaker: Alexander Boeschoten
• Event Type: Seminar
• Date and Time: 02/04/2025 3:30 pm - 02/04/2025 4:30 pm
• Location: Willamette 240D

The resolution of optical systems, formulated as the smallest possible distance between two point sources for which they still can be resolved, was for a long time believed to be limited by diffraction, formulated by the Rayleigh criterion. However, recen… Read More

• Speaker: Raymond W Simmonds
• Event Type: Seminar
• Date and Time: 01/17/2025 3:30 pm - 01/17/2025 4:30 pm
• Location: Willamette 240 - OMQ Conference Room

Presenting Author: Raymond Simmonds, National Institute of Standards & Technology, Boulder COContributing Authors: Xiaoyue Jin, Taewan Noh, Sudhir Sahu, Trevyn Larson, Katarina Cicak, Zachary Parrott, Kaixuan Ji, Tongyu Zhao, Shlomi Kotler, Eliot Kapi… Read More

• Speaker: Shelbi Jenkins
• Event Type: Seminar
• Date and Time: 11/21/2024 1:00 pm - 11/21/2024 2:00 pm
• Location: Willamette 240 - OMQ Conference Room

The realization of practical quantum networks is highly sought after for the advancement of secure communications, distributed quantum computing, and quantum-enhanced sensing. Previous work on analytical models of repeaterless quantum networks emphasizes… Read More

• Speaker: Alp Sipahigil
• Event Type: Seminar
• Date and Time: 11/04/2024 3:30 pm - 11/04/2024 4:30 pm
• Location: Willamette 240 - OMQ Conference Room

Abstract: Fault-tolerant quantum computation requires further advances in lowering physical qubit error rates in scalable architectures [1]. In this talk, I will present our work on superconducting quantum devices to reduce error rates and resource overhe… Read More