Abstract

Mesoscopic superconductors are a natural choice in the quest to manipulate macroscopic coherent quantum states by electronic means. That is why superconducting devices are being investigated to realize novel quantum technologies for applications in quantum computation, simulation, and sensing. Therefore, understanding charge, spin, and heat transport in the coherent superconducting regime can help advance the second quantum revolution. Superconducting circuits have already led to beautiful quantum optics experiments in the microwave frequency domain and atomic physics experiments using superconducting qubits as artificial atoms. Still, while superconducting circuits are one of the most advanced platforms for the implementation of quantum information processing, more fundamental research is needed to improve the performance of qubits in terms of coherence time, gate time, reproducibility, and scalability, to the necessary level for practical use. Moreover, superconducting circuits can interact with electromagnetic, mechanical, and ferromagnetic degrees of freedom, thus representing a unique flexible platform to implement hybrid devices integrating different materials with complementary properties. The minicolloquium will bring together theorists and experimentalists to discussed topics including (but not limited to): coherence and dissipation in Josephson junctions and hybrid qubits and devices; quantum measurement and entanglement manipulation in superconducting circuits; hybrid quantum circuits and quantum memories.

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