Quantum Institute: Visitor Schedule

The Quantum Lunch is regularly held on Thursdays in the Theoretical Division Conference Room, TA-3, Building 123, Room 121. For more information, contact Diego Dalvit.

May 25 , 2006
12:30 PM

Steven Girvin,
Yale University

Strong Coupling Cavity QED and Superconducting Qubits

Abstract

Recent experimental breakthroughs have led to the construction of artificial superconducting "atoms": nanoscale objects containing approximately one billion aluminum atoms coherently acting in concert. When placed inside a resonant cavity, these "atoms" can strongly interact with single microwave photons. This talk will give an elementary introduction to recent remarkable experiments in the Schoelkopf and Devoret labs at Yale. In addition to being a new test bed for quantum mechanics and quantum optics, this system has many promising features for quantum computation.