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SUMMARY:Silicon-based Quantum Computing: The path from the laboratory to i
 ndustrial manufacture
DTSTART:20191211T161500
DTEND:20191211T171500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Andrew Dzurak\, UNSW Sydney\, Australia\nAbstract: In t
 his talk\, Prof. Andrew Dzurak will give an overview of the development of
  silicon-based quantum computing (QC)\, from the basic science through to 
 its prospects for industrial-scale commercialization based on CMOS manufac
 turing. He will begin with Kane’s original proposal for a silicon quantu
 m computer\, conceived at UNSW in 1998\, based on single donor atoms in si
 licon\, and will review the first demonstrations of such qubits\, using bo
 th electron spins and nuclear spins. He will then discuss the development 
 of SiMOS quantum dot qubits\, including the demonstration of single-electr
 on occupancy\, high-fidelity single-qubit gates\, and the first demonstrat
 ion of a two-qubit logic gate in silicon\, together with the most recent a
 ssessments of silicon qubit fidelities. Andrew will also explore the techn
 ical issues related to scaling a silicon-CMOS based quantum processor up t
 o the millions of qubits that will be required for fault-tolerant QC\, inc
 luding the prospects for operating silicon qubits at temperatures above 1K
 \, which would open a path to the integration of conventional CMOS control
  electronics with the qubit system.\n\nBiography: Andrew Dzurak is one of
  Australia’s leading experts in nanoelectronics and quantum computing te
 chnologies. He is the Director of ANFF-NSW\, the NSW node of the Australia
 n National Fabrication Facility (ANFF – see www.anff.org.au )\, a networ
 k of university-based laboratories that provide researchers and industry w
 ith access to state-of-the-art fabrication facilities. ANFF enables users 
 to process and transform materials into structures that have application i
 n sensors\, medical devices\, nanophotonics and nanoelectronics.\nFollowin
 g a PhD at the University of Cambridge\, Andrew returned to Australia in 1
 994 to establish Australia’s highest resolution electron-beam lithograph
 y capability at UNSW\, offering nanoelectronic device feature sizes down t
 o 10 nanometers.  He also began work on an initiative to construct in Aus
 tralia a solid state quantum computer\, and was one of the founder members
  of the Centre for Quantum Computer Technology in January 2000. The centre
  has achieved major advances in the international effort to realize large-
 scale quantum information processing and expanded in 2011 to become the AR
 C Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technolog
 y. It maintains the world’s largest focused collaboration on silicon-bas
 ed quantum computing and Andrew is the Centre’s Work-Package Leader in t
 his area\, as well as the Lead Investigator for a major grant from the US 
 Army Research Office in silicon quantum computing.\nAndrew and his team ha
 ve developed a range of single atom nanotechnologies that will be required
  for silicon quantum computing and that also have relevance to today’s s
 emiconductor industry. Andrew is a Director of the company Qucor Pty Ltd\,
  which was established to commercialize this research. He is a regular inv
 ited speaker at international conferences on quantum computing and nanotec
 hnology\, and has served on numerous advisory bodies including the Expert 
 Working Group for the 2012 Australian National Nanotechnology Strategy\, f
 or the Australian Academy of Science\, the Expert Working Group for the DI
 ISR 2008 Roadmap Review of the National Collaborative Research Infrastruct
 ure Strategy\, and the Scholar Selection Committee of the Cambridge Austra
 lia Trust. In 2011 Andrew was elected to a UNSW Scientia Professorship\, t
 he highest academic rank within the university\, for his research achievem
 ents.\nSince 2010 Andrew has published 10 papers in the prestigious Scienc
 e and Nature group journals\, including 4 seminal papers in Nature that ha
 ve demonstrated the world’s first one- and two-qubit quantum logic calcu
 lations in silicon chip devices. In total he has published well over 100 s
 cientific papers and is a co-inventor on 11 patent families. In 2011 Andre
 w shared the Australian Eureka Prize for Scientific Research\, and in 2012
  was awarded the New South Wales Science and Engineering award for Excelle
 nce in Engineering and Information and Communications Technologies.
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