Leghtas Lab

Research focus

ERC Starting Grant · 2019

Exotic superconducting CIrcuits to Probe and protect quantum States of light and mattEr

Quantum systems can occupy peculiar states, such as superposition or entangled states. These states are intrinsically fragile and eventually get wiped out by inevitable interactions with the environment. Protecting quantum states against decoherence is a formidable and fundamental problem in physics, which is pivotal for the future of quantum computing. The theory of quantum error correction provides a solution, but its current envisioned implementations require daunting resources: a single bit of information is protected by encoding it across tens of thousands of physical qubits. My proposal is to protect quantum information in an entirely new type of qubit with two key specificities.…

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