Scientific Calendar Event



Description
 
An ICTP meeting

The central challenge in building a scalable quantum computer is achieving effective quantum error correction (QEC). Large arrays of superconducting qubits are currently a leading platform for the implementation of QEC. The success of these implementations relies on the synergy of accurate understanding of the device physics and associated noise, of efficient and practical quantum codes, and of the integration of these two in the form of tileable architectures.
 
In this conference, we plan to bring together scientists working in the following three major areas:
 
  • New materials and hardware foundations
  • New quantum LDPC codes
  • New hardware architectures and components
 
and encourage stronger communication between them. We especially hope to foster improved interactions between industry and academia.

Speakers:
L. Ateshian, MIT, USA
D. Bacon, Google, USA
M. Carroll, IBM, USA
N. de Leon, Princeton University, USA
C. Deng, Alibaba, China
M. Devoret, Google and Yale, USA
R. Gao, Alibaba, China
C. Gidney, Google, USA
T. Gozlinski, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
W. Livingston, Google, USA
R. McDermott, UW Madison, USA
A. McDonald, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
A. Megrant, Google, USA
D. Pappas, Rigetti, USA
B. Plourde, Syracuse University, USA
I. Pop, KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
N. Roch, Neel Institute Grenoble, France
D. Rower, MIT, USA
B. Sacepe, Neel Institute Grenoble, France
B.M. Smitham, Princeton University, USA
Y. Tabuchi, Japan
G. Tancredi, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
A. Ustinov, KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
A. Wallraff, ETH, Switzerland
​F. Yan, Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Science, China


Poster abstract: Applicants are encouraged to submit an abstract for a poster session. Please use the ICTP templates that are available below for download.

Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.
 

Go to day
  • Monday, 15 January 2024
    • 08:30 - 09:00 Registration formalities
      REGISTRATION: Upon arrival, Visitors not staying in the ICTP Guest Houses, are kindly requested to complete registration formalities at the Leonardo building (Lobby). The Registration Desk will be open from 8.30 to 9.00.
    • 09:00 - 17:30 Noise (TLS, quasiparticles, spins) and new materials (I)
      • 09:00 Introduction for students: TLS 45'
        Speaker: Rosario Fazio (ICTP), Matt McEwen (Google), Lara Faoro (Google)
      • 09:45 Voltage Induced Annealing of Aluminum Oxide Tunnel Junctions 45'
        Speaker: David Pappas (Rigetti)
        Material: Video
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 11:00 Enhancing the coherence of superconducting qubits with electric fields 45'
        Speaker: Alexey Ustinov (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
        Material: Video
      • 11:45 Probing the magnetic field dependence of flux noise with superconducting qubits 45'
        Speaker: David Rower, Lamia Ateshian (MIT, Lincoln Lab)
        Material: Video
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h0'
      • 13:30 Inductive losses in flux qubits:limitation and perspectives 45'
        Speaker: Ioan Pop (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
      • 14:15 New material platforms for quantum computing 45'
        Speaker: Nathalie de Leon (Princeton University)
        Material: Video
      • 15:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 15:30 Round table I 2h0'
        Speaker: Michel Devoret (Google and Yale), Nathalie de Leon (Princeton University), George Sterling (Google), Dave Pappas (Rigetti), Alexey Ustinov (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
    • 18:00 - 19:00 Welcome reception
      Location: ICTP ( Leonardo Building Cafeteria )
  • Tuesday, 16 January 2024
    • 09:00 - 17:30 Quasiparticles and strongly disordered superconductors
      • 09:45 Photon-assisted Quasiparticle Poisoning in Superconducting Qubits 45'
        Speaker: Robert McDermott (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
        Material: Video
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 11:00 Insight into superconductivity in granular aluminium from millikelvin scanning tunnelling spectroscopy 45'
        Speaker: Thomas Gozlinski (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
      • 11:45 On the role of disorderness in superconducting materials on qubit coherence 45'
        Speaker: Ran Gao (Alibaba)
        Material: Video
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h0'
      • 13:30 Strongly disordered superconductors for superinductances 45'
        Speaker: Benjamin Sacepe (NEEL Institut CNRS)
        Material: Video
      • 14:15 Mean-field theory of first order quantum superconductor-insulator transition 45'
        Speaker: Mikhail Feigelman (Nanocenter Ljubljana)
        Material: Video
      • 15:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 15:30 Round table II 2h0'
        Speaker: Michel Devoret (Google and Yale), Britton Plourde (Syracuse University), Robert McDermott (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Lev Ioffe (Google), Ioan Pop (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  • Wednesday, 17 January 2024
    • 09:00 - 17:30 Challenge of large scale devices
      • 09:00 Using bi-fluxon tunneling to protect the Fluxonium qubit 45'
        Speaker: Nicolas Roch (NEEL Institut CNRS)
        Material: Video
      • 09:45 Two level system dynamics and simulations of surface code sensitivities to non-identical infidelity distributions 45'
        Speaker: Malcolm Carroll (IBM)
        Material: Video
      • 10:30 Group photo 5'
      • 10:35 Coffee break 25'
      • 11:00 Electromagnetic simulation methods for planar superconducting circuits 45'
        Speaker: Basil M. Smitham (Princeton University)
        Material: Video
      • 11:45 Toward Fault Tolerant quantum computing with superconducting fluxonium 45'
        Speaker: Chunqing Deng (Alibaba)
        Material: Video
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h0'
      • 13:30 System integration in superconducting quantum computers 45'
        Speaker: Yutaka Tabuchi (Riken)
      • 14:15 Scalable 3D integration of high-performance superconducting qubits 45'
        Speaker: Giovanna Tancredi (Chalmers University of Technology)
        Material: Video
      • 15:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 15:30 Round table III 2h0'
        Speaker: Michel Devoret (Google and Yale), Yutaka Tabuchi (Riken), Malcolm Carroll (IBM), Chunqing Deng (Alibaba), Giovanna Tancredi (Chalmers University of Technology)
  • Thursday, 18 January 2024
    • 09:00 - 17:30 Surface code and new error correction LDPC
      • 09:00 Adapting QEC circuits to hardware strengths 45'
        Speaker: Matt McEwen (Google)
        Material: Video
      • 09:45 TBA 45'
        Speaker: Andreas Wallraff (ETHZ)
        Material: Video
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 11:00 Halving the size of Surface Codes with Yokes 45'
        Speaker: Craig Gidney (Google)
        Material: Video
      • 11:45 Quantum shift register (dialup) codes 45'
        Speaker: Lara Faoro (Google)
        Material: Video
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h0'
      • 13:30 Poster session 1h30'
        Material: Booklet Posters abstracts
      • 15:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 15:30 Round table IV 2h0'
        Speaker: Michel Devoret (Google and Yale), Alexei Kitaev (CALTECH and Google), Matt McEwen (Google), Craig Gidney (Google), Lev Ioffe (Google), Michael Freedman (UCSB and Google), Andreas Wallraff (ETHZ)
  • Friday, 19 January 2024
    • 09:00 - 14:15 Challenge of Readout and long distance connections
      • 09:00 Measurement-induced transmon ionization 45'
        Speaker: Alexander McDonald (Sherbrooke University)
        Material: Video
      • 09:45 Error Correction with continuous syndrome measurements 45'
        Speaker: William Livingston (Google)
        Material: Video
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 11:00 Multiplexed control scheme for scalable quantum information processing with superconducting qubits 45'
        Speaker: Fei Yan (Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Science)
        Material: Video
      • 11:45 Phonon-mediated quasiparticle poisoning and correlated errors in superconducting qubit arrays 45'
        Speaker: Britton Plourde (Syracuse University)
        Material: Video
      • 12:30 Concluding remarks 10'
        Speaker: Michel Devoret (Google and Yale)
      • 12:40 Lunch break 1h0'