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Physics Seminar

December 13, 2018 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Title: Quantum Many-Body Physics of Qubits

Professor Leonid Glazman

Yale University,

New Haven, CT, USA

Abstract:

The ongoing development of superconducting qubits has brought some basic questions of many-body physics to the research forefront, and in some cases helped solving them. I will address two effects in quantum condensed matter highlighted by the development of a fluxonium qubit. The first one is the so-called cosine-phi problem stemming from the seminal paper of Brian Josephson: the predicted there phase dependence of the dissipative current across a Josephson junction was observed in a fluxonium, after nearly 50 years of unsuccessful attempts by other techniques. The second one is the dynamics of a weakly-pinned charge density wave: we predict that the dynamics may be revealed in measurements of microwave reflection off a superinductor, which is a key element of the fluxonium.

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Date:
December 13, 2018
Time:
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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Venue

Namm 823

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Physics Department