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Physics & Astronomy Quantum Nano Seminar - Dr. Benjamin Brock, Yale University

Title: "Engineering a fault-tolerant quantum computer with bosonic codes"

Monday, November 20, 2023
3:00pm – 4:00pm
Wilder 202 & Zoom
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Arts and Sciences, Lectures & Seminars

Abstract: Bosonic codes offer a path toward hardware-efficient quantum error correction (QEC) by redundantly encoding quantum information in the large Hilbert space of a harmonic oscillator. The Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) code is particularly promising, yielding in a circuit-QED architecture a QEC gain of 2.3, well beyond the break-even point [1]. In this architecture an ancillary qubit is used to stabilize GKP codewords in a high-Q microwave cavity, a process which is very sensitive to ancilla bit-flip errors. In this talk I will discuss two projects aimed at mitigating the detrimental effects of these ancilla bit-flip errors on the quantum information encoded in GKP states. These projects build toward the broader goal of engineering a fault-tolerant quantum computer using bosonic codes as building blocks.
[1] V.V. Sivak et al., Nature 616, 50-55 (2023).

Hosted by Professor Alexander Rimberg

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