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05-27
2011
Microcavity lasers on a silicon chip: Towards integrated photonic circuits
Abstract: Recently, there has been much attention focused on leveraging silicon VLSI processing to create optical functions. This talk will discuss the development of a novel laser assisted wet-chemi...
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10-30
2014
Test of quantum commutation relations
Abstract: The uncertainty principle is at the very heart of quantum mechanics. Position, x, and momentum, p, are important physical observables to determine the mechanical properties of a system. In ...
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11-17
2015
Quantum Simulation of Molecular Spectroscopy
Abstract: Recently, boson sampling [1] has emerged as a problem that is believed to be intractable for any classical computer, but also efficiently solvable by a linear photonic network. This has rai...
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10-20
2016
Quantum Journal Club: High Quality Stepped-impedance Resonators suitable for Circuit-QED Measurement of Superconducting Artificial Atoms
Abstract: High quality factor coplanar resonators are critical elements in superconducting quantum circuits. We describe the design, fabrication and measurement of stepped impedance resonators (SIRs)...
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01-08
2019
Quantum Approximate Optimization: Performance, Mechanism, and Implementation on Near-Term Devices
Abstract: As quantum computing technology develops, there is a growing interest in finding useful applications of near-term quantum machines. In this talk, I will describe our recent works on using n...
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12-29
2021
Benchmarking near-term quantum computers via random circuit sampling
Abstract: The increasing scale of near-term quantum hardware motivates the need for efficient noise characterization methods, since qubit and gate level techniques cannot capture crosstalk and correl...