Quantum Lunch Seminar Series
Speaker: Steven Touzard
Abstract: Our group was funded two years ago on the promise that we would entangle a superconducting qubit with telecom photons. Such entangled states are critical to create Quantum Networks, with applications in safe quantum computing, quantum communication and sensing. To this end, we have been investigating three research directions: coupling superconducting circuits to rare-earth ions, coupling optical resonators to rare-earth ions, and creating parametric amplifiers to efficiently retrieve quantum information from superconducting circuits. In this talk, we will give a broad overview of our project, as well as an update on the progress of these research directions.