Speaker
Prof.
Steve Girvin
(Yale University)
Description
It is well-known that fermions are difficult to simulate with qubits because of their odd symmetry under
exchange. It is less widely appreciated that bosons, despite their even symmetry under exchange, are
also difficult to simulate with qubits. I will discuss how quantum hardware containing bosonic modes
(microwave resonators) offers great hardware efficiency for simulation of many-body and lattice gauge
models containing bosons. Time permitting, I will also discuss recent experimental success in quantum
error correction beyond the break-even point using the GKP bosonic code.
