Hybrid superconducting circuits with unconventional superconductors

Please join us for the QSE Center Quantum Seminar with Uri Vool from Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, who will give the talk "Hybrid superconducting circuits with unconventional superconductors" on Tuesday June 10th.
Location: MA A1 10.

Pizzas will be available before the seminar at 12:00. All PhDs, postdocs, students, and PIs are welcome to join us.

TITLE: "Hybrid superconducting circuits with unconventional superconductors"

ABSTRACT:
Superconducting circuits (SCs) are quantum devices that mimic the behavior of atomic systems even though they are made up of macroscopic microwave circuit elements. Their tunability, high coherence, and strong coupling has led to their rapid development as a leading implementation of quantum hardware. Traditional SCs are made using known superconductors such as aluminium or niobium, but the integration of novel superconductors as part of the circuit can lead to new scientific insights and new capabilities. Such hybrid circuits are ideal sensors, capable of measuring the superconducting gap structures of new unconventional superconductors using micron-sized samples, which have thus far been inaccessible. Furthermore, the unique quantum properties of unconventional superconductors can be utilized to make a new class of quantum devices. This talk will present recent results where we explore novel superconductors with hybrid circuits, and a path towards utilizing them in new hybrid devices for quantum technology.

BIO:
Uri Vool completed his Ph.D. at Yale University in December 2017, working with Professors Michel Devoret and Steven Girvin. Thereafter, he joined Harvard University as a John Harvard distinguished science fellow working with Professor Amir Yacoby. Since April 2022, Uri has led the Max Planck Research Group for Quantum Information for Quantum Materials (QIQM) at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (CPfS). The group works between the quantum information and quantum materials fields, developing coherent quantum systems as sensors for condensed-matter phenomena and utilizing materials to make novel hybrid quantum systems. The group specializes in two experimental techniques: Nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond and hybrid superconducting electromagnetic circuits.