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SUMMARY:QSE Quantum Seminar: Trapped ion quantum computers and the challen
 ge of scaling
DTSTART:20240222T120000
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DESCRIPTION:Cornelius Hempel\,\nPaul Scherrer Institute\nPlease join us f
 or the QSE Center Quantum Seminar with Dr Cornelius Hempel from the 
 Paul Scherrer Institute\, who will speak Thursday February 22 on "Trappe
 d ion quantum computers and the challenge of scaling". \nLocation: CM 1 4
 \n\nPizzas will be available before the seminar at 12:00. All PhDs\, post
 docs\, students\, and PIs are welcome to join us.\n\nTITLE: Trapped ion q
 uantum computers and the challenge of scaling \n\nABSTRACT: Trapped ions
  provide an excellent platform for quantum science experiments with leadin
 g performance metrics in fidelities\, coherence times and quantum volume. 
 While qubits are identical\, a major challenge of the platform is scalabil
 ity\, i.e. extending the same level of control over larger numbers of qubi
 ts. Work in this direction has been going on for a number of years already
  and promising avenues have been identified that pave the way to realizing
  a large scale error corrected quantum computer.\n \nIn this talk\, I wil
 l provide a brief introduction to the trapped-ion architecture\, showcase 
 some high profile results in quantum simulation and computation\, includin
 g the only demonstration so-far of active quantum error correction. I wi
 ll then focus on the scaling aspect\, which is at the core of our groups m
 ission at PSI\, where we investigate integrated photonics for light delive
 ry and modulation.\n\nBIO: Cornelius Hempel leads the Ion Trap Quantum Co
 mputation team at the ETH Zürich-PSI Quantum Computing Hub located at the
  Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). He obtained his PhD in Physics in the gro
 up of Prof. Rainer Blatt at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) in 2014 
 and previously Masters and Diplom degrees at the University of Michigan (U
 SA) and Martin Luther University Halle (Germany). Following a short postdo
 c at the Institut for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI)\, he 
 moved to the University of Sydney (Australia) as a Research Fellow in 2016
  and in 2018 became principal investigator in the ytterbium laboratory of 
 the Quantum Control Laboratory. He was promoted to Senior Research Fellow 
 (equivalent to research associate professor in the US) in 2020. He continu
 es to hold an honorary position in Australia since his move to Switzerland
  in 2021.\n 
LOCATION:CM 1 4 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==CM%201%204
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