Quantum Information with Solid-State Devices

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The course will start on Monday 7 March at 15:00. The lecture room is the Fachgruppenraum, Freihaus, 1. floor, yellow section, opposite the Mensa (See Map).

If you have questions about the course, please contact me via email johannes.majer[at]tuwien.ac.at

Lecture Notes

7 March 2016 - Lecture 1 Introduction

QISS Lecture 1 Slides
Problem Set 1
Problem Set 1 Solution

14 March 2016 - Lecture 2 Qubits

QISS Lecture 2 Slides
QISS Lecture 2 Notes
Summary on Pauli Matrizes
Problem Set 2
Problem Set 2 Solution
Python code to solve the exercises: pauli.py

4 April 2016 - Lecture 3 Relaxation and Dephasing

QISS Lecture 3 Slides
QISS Lecture 3 Notes
Problem Set 3
Problem Set 3 Solution
Python code to solve the exercises: relaxation.py, dephasing.py, rabi_weak.py, rabi_strong.py

18 April 2016 - Lecture 4 Quantum Gates

QISS Lecture 4 Slides
QISS Lecture 4 Notes
Problem Set 4
Problem Set 4 Solution
Python code to solve the exercises: QuantumGates.py

25 April 2016 - Lecture 5 Quantum Algoritms

QISS Lecture 5 Slides
QISS Lecture 5 Notes
Problem Set 5
Problem Set 5 Solution

2 May 2016 - Lecture 6 Josephson Effect

QISS Lecture 6 Slides
QISS Lecture 6 Notes
Problem Set 6
Problem Set 6 Solution

9. May 2016 - Lecture 7 Single Charge Devices

QISS Lecture 7 Slides
QISS Lecture 7 Notes
Problem Set 7
Problem Set 7 Solution

23. May 2016 - Lecture 8 Cooper-pair box

QISS Lecture 8 Slides
QISS Lecture 8 Notes
Problem Set 8
Problem Set 8 Solution

30. May 2016 - Lecture 9 Superconducting Qubits

QISS Lecture 9 Slides
QISS Lecture 9 Notes
Problem Set 9
Problem Set 9 Solution

6. June 2016 - Lecture 10 Transmon Qubit, Resonators

QISS Lecture 10 Slides
QISS Lecture 10 Notes
Problem Set 10

Exam

Choose one of the following papers:

• Y. Nakamura, Yu. A. Pashkin, and J. S. Tsai, Coherent control of macroscopic quantum states in a single-Cooper-pair box, Nature 398, 786--788 (1999)
• T. Yamamoto, Yu. A. Pashkin, O. Astafiev, Y. Nakamura, and J. S. Tsai, Demonstration of conditional gate operation using superconducting charge qubits, Nature 425, 941--944 (2003)
• 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)
• 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)
• J. Majer, et. al, "Coupling superconducting qubits via a cavity bus", Nature 449, 443-447 (2007)
• Vladimir E. Manucharyan, Jens Koch, Leonid I. Glazman, and Michel H. Devoret, Fluxonium: Single Cooper-Pair Circuit Free of Charge Offsets, Science 326, 113-116 (2009)
• Max Hofheinz, E. M. Weig, M. Ansmann, Radoslaw C. Bialczak, Erik Lucero, M. Neeley, A. D. O/'Connell, H. Wang, John M. Martinis, and A. N. Cleland, Generation of Fock states in a superconducting quantum circuit, Nature 454, 310--314 (2008)
• 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)
• Matteo Mariantoni, H. Wang, Radoslaw C. Bialczak, M. Lenander, Erik Lucero, M. Neeley, A. D. O/'Connell, D. Sank, M. Weides, J. Wenner, T. Yamamoto, Y. Yin, J. Zhao, John M. Martinis, and A. N. Cleland, Photon shell game in three-resonator circuit quantum electrodynamics, Nat Phys , (2011)
• Chen Wang, Yvonne Y. Gao, Philip Reinhold, R. W. Heeres, Nissim Ofek, Kevin Chou, Christopher Axline, Matthew Reagor, Jacob Blumoff, K. M. Sliwa, L. Frunzio, S. M. Girvin, Liang Jiang, M. Mirrahimi, M. H. Devoret, and R. J. Schoelkopf, A Schrödinger cat living in two boxes, Science 352, 1087-1091 (2016)
• or suggest another paper

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