Presentation of the Quantum Computation Technology group at IFAE

Presentation of the Quantum Computation Technology group at IFAE

Seminar author:Pol Forn Díaz

Event date and time:09/25/2019 03:00:pm

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This talk will represent the official presentation to GIQ of the newly established Quantum Computation Technology (QCT) group at IFAE. I will introduce the group and its primary focus to build a quantum annealer using superconducting qubit technology to run quantum algorithms and perform computation and simulation tasks. Quantum annealing has kept raising interests since its inception. The lack of experimental implementations has limited its exploitation. Recent progress, both theoretical and experimental, has brought the field back to the main line of interest due to its potential to overcome certain classical computational tasks in the near-term, while quantum error correction is years away from being deployed. Results of the first superconducting qubit measured by the QCT group in an interim experiment run at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) will also be presented.