Spring School on Superconducting Qubit Technology
Spring School on Superconducting Qubit Technology

Organizers:

David López-Núñez (Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech / IFAE, Barcelona, Spain), Fabian Zwiehoff (ParTec AG, Munich, Germany), Pol Forn-Díaz (Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech / IFAE, Barcelona, Spain)


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Wednesday, May 21

15:00-20:00 Bus from BCN to BNQ

Thursday, May 22

08:30-09:15 Registration
09:15-09:30 Opening
09:30-11:00 Introduction to Superconducting Qubits
William Oliver
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Materials and Fabrication
Ioan Pop
13:00-15:00 Lunch break
Student talks
15:00-15:15 Superconducting qubits as particle detectors
Francesco De Dominicis
15:15-15:30 Low crosstalk modular flip-chip architecture for coupled superconducting qubits
Paul Kugler
15:30-15:45 Two-mode squeezing generation in a flux-tunable JTWPA
Isita Chatterjee
15:45-16:00 Mixed spin-boson coupling for qubit readout with supressed residual shot-noise dephasing
Jinlun Hu
16:00-16:15 Quantum phase transitions in multi-photon kerr oscillators: toward protected superconducting qubits
Edson Mateus Signor
16:15-16:30 Superconducting parallel-plate resonators for single-spin detection
André Pscherer
17:00-21:00 Poster session (together with welcome reception)
18:00-21:00 Welcome reception

Friday, May 23

09:15-09:30 Self-organized activities planning
09:30-11:00 Experiments with Superconducting Qubits
William Oliver
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Decoherence in Superconducting Circuits
Ioan Pop
13:00-15:00 Lunch break
Student talks
15:00-15:15 Tunable coupler to fully decouple and maximally localize superconducting qubits
Lukas Heunisch
15:15-15:30 Tensor network approaches for simulations of larger superconducting circuits
Christian Hensel
15:30-15:45 Robust multi-mode superconducting qubit designed with evolutionary algorithms
Pablo Garcia Azorin
15:45-16:00 Cat qubit stabilization with a DC-biased JJ
Marco Paradina
16:00-16:15 Landau-Zener-Stückelberg-Majorana Interferometry in Valley States of a Spin-Shuttler
Priyanka Yashwantrao
16:15-16:30 Absence of charge drifts in a Cooper pair box
Adria Rospars
16:30-19:00 Self-organized activity
20:00-23:55 Conference dinner and party

Saturday, May 24

11:00-19:00 Self-organized activities

Sunday, May 25

08:00-15:00 Difficult Hike - Ibones de Escarpinosa y Cascada de Perramó - Meeting point: Hotel Aneto at the roundabout
09:00-14:30 Medium Hike - Cabaña del Turmo - Cabaña de la Coma - Meeting point: Hotel Aneto at the roundabout
09:30-13:30 Easy Hike - Casa conques - Embalse de Eriste - Meeting point: Centro de ciencias

Monday, May 26

09:15-09:30 Self-organized activities planning
09:30-11:00 Correlated Errors in Large-Scale Devices
Kevin Miao
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 High-Impedance Circuits/Superinductances/ Fluxonium Qubits (1)
Nicolas Roch
13:00-15:00 Lunch break
15:00-19:00 Self-organized activities
Tensor Network Approaches for Simulations of Larger Superconducting Circuits
Christian Hensel

Tuesday, May 27

09:15-09:30 Self-organized activities planning
09:30-11:00 Quantum Error Correction (1)
Andreas Wallraff
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 High-Impedance Circuits/Superinductances/ Fluxonium Qubits (2)
Nicolas Roch
13:00-15:00 Lunch break
15:00-19:00 Self-organized activities

Wednesday, May 28

09:15-10:45 Bosonic Quantum Computing (1)
Yvonne Gao
10:45-11:00 Group Picture
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Quantum Error Correction (2)
Andreas Wallraff
13:00-15:00 Lunch break
15:00-15:30 Industry session (1): Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech
María Hita Pérez
15:30-16:00 Industry session (2): Silent Waves
Luca Planat
16:00-16:30 Industry session (3): Google Quantum AI
Kevin Miao
17:00-20:00 Company exhibition: Qblox, Orange QS, Alice & Bob, Silent Waves

Thursday, May 29

09:00-09:30 Self-organized activities planning
09:30-11:00 Bosonic Quantum Computing (2)
Yvonne Gao
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Quantum Annealing
Pol Forn-Díaz
13:00-15:00 Lunch break
15:00-16:30 Self-organized activities
16:30-17:00 Closing

Friday, May 30

09:00-14:00 Return bus to BCN