Single spins in semiconductor nanowires

Superconducting Qubits and Quantum Resonators

Superconducting qubits are fabricated "loss-free" electrical circuits on a chip with size features of tens of nanometers. If cooled to cryogenic temperatures below -273 °C they behave as quantum elements, similar to atoms and molecules. Such a qubit can be manipulated by fast-oscillating magnetic fields and its resulting quantum state can be...

Coupled flux qubits and double bifurcation readout

Coupled superconducting flux qubits

This thesis presents results of theoretical and experimental work on superconducting persistent-current quantum bits. These qubits offer an attractive route towards scalable solid-state quantum computing. The focus of this work is on the gradiometer flux qubit which has a special geometric design, that both provides a stable phase bias and...