My Favourite Qubit: quantum simulation and computation with superconducting qubits

In recent years superconducting qubits have become one of the leading platforms for quantum computation and simulation. In 2019, the Google team demonstrated that a quantum processor could perform certain computational tasks exponentially faster than a classical computer. Going beyond this milestone, we utilize these Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) processors to study nonequilibrium quantum dynamics and simulate quantum phases of matter. After introducing these processors, I will present some of our recent works.

Pedram Roushan received his BS in physics and mathematics from University of Pittsburgh in 2005 and his PhD in physics from Princeton University in 2011. During his PhD, he studied metal-insulator phase transitions and performed the first scanning tunneling microscopy of topological insulators. After postdoctoral studies at UC Santa Barbara, he joined Google quantum AI. The current focus of his research is on simulating novel condensed matter and non-equilibrium physics with superconducting quantum processors.