Physics 576A, Winter
Experimental Aspects of Quantum Computing

Instructor: Boris Blinov
Email: blinov (at) u.washington.edu

Office: PAB B436
Office Hours: TBA
Telephone: 221-3780

Link to the "Experimental Aspectd of Quantum Computing"

Workshop program

January 5Introduction PDF(2.5 Mb) PPT(4.5 Mb)
January 12Quantum computing architectures - D. Bacon
January 19

Superconducting Qubits - 1

Superconducting Qubit Overview PDF (700 kb), PPT (4.2 Mb)

The Cooper Pair Box as a realization of a qubit - Nathan Kurz (presentation PDF)

Phase Qubits - Michael Hotz

January 26

Superconducting Qubits - 2

Electrons on Helium PDF (500 kb) PPT (2.9 Mb)

An Intuitive View of Superconducting Qubits - Gregory Crosswhite (presentation QuickTime movie - 4.7 Mb)

Quantum computation in a circuit realization of cavity QED - Joaquin Drut (presentation PDF)

February 2

Solid State Qubits

Solid State Qubits Overview PDF (600 kb), PPT (800 kb)

Quantum Dots and Spn Based Quantum Computing - Matthew Dietrich (presentation PDF, PPT)

Optical Methods in Quantum Dot Quantum Computation - Gang (Rick) Shu (presentation PDF, PPT)

February 9

Cavity QED

Cavity QED Overview PDF (700 kb), PPT (2.1 M)

Cavity QED as a Deterministic Photon Source - Gary Howell (presentation PDF, PPT)

Jeff Sherman

February 16No Class (SQuInT meeting)
February 23

Ion Traps

Ion Trap Overview PDF (1.9 Mb), PPT (9 Mb)

Quantum Computing with Trapped Ion Hyperfine Qubits - Jiang Wei (presentation PDF, PPT)

Ian Derrington

March 2

Optical Qubits

Optical qubits overview PDF (1.1 Mb), PPT (1.6 Mb)

A Comparison of Two CNOT Gate Implementations in Optical Quantum Computing - Adam Kleczewski (presentation PDF, PPT)

Optical Qubits - Li Wang (presentation PDF, PPT)

March 9

Quantum Cryptography

Quantum Cryptography - Marshall Roth (presentation PDF, PPT)