Superconducting Circuits for Quantum Information Science Processing

My talk will consist of an introduction to superconducting devices and how they are used for quantum computation. I will start with a brief overview of superconductivity. I will then move on to superconducting circuits and why they are useful for quantum information processing. I will follow this with an exposition of how these superconducting circuits generate the basic operations for quantum computing including details of how superconducting qubits are coupled.

Dr. David I. Santiago obtained his Ph.D in Theoretical Physics from Stanford University in 2009. From that time until 2009 he worked as a postdoctoral researcher and scientific staff for several institituions until 2009. At that time, David started working as a consultant to government funding agencies, helping them design research programs, decide who to fund, and evaluate the funded scientific teams. In this capacity is where David first got involved with quantum computation as a lot of the programs he was involved with were the early ones who helped develop current state of the art quantum information science technologies. In 2016, David came back to research joining the superconducting quantum processing theory team at Northrop Grumman. Since 2019, David has been the technical lead for the Advanced Quantum Testbed project at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.