Speaker
Prof.
John Martinis
(University of California, Santa Barbara)
Description
I will describe the basic physics of superconducting qubits, from a practical and intuitive point of view describing them as non-linear oscillators. I will also review the theory of the surface code, which is a good way to understand how fault-tolerant error correction works. All of this is put together in a review of the quantum supremacy experiment, where high-fidelity qubit operations are possible in a scalable system.
