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Events for August 09, 2013
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering TalkFri, Aug 09, 2013
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid. Reservations are required for Meet USC. This program occurs twice, once at 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit https://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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AI SEMINAR-Decoherence and Measurement Properties of Phase Qubits
Fri, Aug 09, 2013 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Emily Pritchett, Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany
Talk Title: Decoherence and Measurement Properties of Phase Qubits
Series: AISeminar
Abstract: Over the past five years, the coherence times of phase qubits have increased an order of magnitude to ~1üs, but are now multiple orders of magnitude shorter than leading superconducting qubits. The saturation of coherence times in phase qubits has spurred a large experimental initiative in the superconducting community to understand and engineer cleaner materials. I present numerical evidence that many of these spurious resonances are intrinsic to the phase qubit itself and not the environment as was previously assumed.
While identifying this problem could lead to longer coherence times through better control techniques, I instead will focus on applications of the phase qubit as a controllably 'dirty' quantum device, immediately useful for practical quantum measurement problems. Phase qubits can be used as a novel photon counter (JPM). I discuss many practical applications of such a measurement scheme, including the creation of interesting nonclassical states.
Biography: Bio: Emily Pritchett is a postdoctoral researcher in theoretical physics at the Saarland University. She received a PhD in Physics from the University of Georgia in 2010.
Host: Kristina Lerman
Webcast: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=d521c832254c4618931fa7f55fa1e0ad1dLocation: Information Science Institute (ISI) -
WebCast Link: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=d521c832254c4618931fa7f55fa1e0ad1d
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Alma Nava / Information Sciences Institute
