Dissemination

Participation in conferences, workshops and events

2023:

110) Pol Forn Díaz (IFAE), Experimental Quantum Annealing, talk, Spring School on Superconducting Qubit Technology, April 2023, Centro de ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual (Benasque, Spain).

109) V. Seferai, P.G. Baity, J. Barbosa, J. Brennan, J.A. Collins, P. Foshat, S. P. Khanjari , C. Fu, C. Lennon, J. Paul, A. Casaburi, K. Delfanazari, R. Hadfield, M. Weides . – ‘Ta based resonators for superconducting quantum applications’ – SQD23 conference- University of Glasgow- 6-7 July, 2023, contributed talk. 

108) V. Seferai, P.G. Baity, J. Barbosa, J. Brennan, J.A. Collins, P. Foshat, S. P. Khanjari, C. Fu, C. Lennon, J. Paul, A. Casaburi, K. Delfanazari, R. Hadfield, M. Weides  - ‘Ta based resonators for superconducting quantum applications’- EUCAS 2023 conference, Bologna, Italy, 3-7 September 2023, contributed talk. 

107) Martin Weides, Improved Methods for Characterizing Resonance Quality Factor in Superconducting Resonators, New York University, 22 September 2023, contributed talk. 

106) Martin Weides, Empowering Practical Interfacing of Quantum Computing, IoP Low temperature Group, 15 September 2023

105) Martin Weides, Improved Methods for Characterizing Resonance Quality Factor in Superconducting Resonators, META 2023 conference Paris, 18 July 2023, contributed talk. 

104) Michael Marthaler (HQS), Noise Mapper Pitch, QBN meeting, Ehningen, 05 Sept. 2023, contributed talk. 

103) Jharna Paul, Valentino Seferai, Kaivan Karami, Joe Bronstein, James Grant, Paul Reynolds, Stephen Thoms, Paul Baity, Sergey Danilin, David Burt, Francesco Mirando, Brendan Casey and Martin Weides, “Scable and CMOS-compatible Superconducting Qubit Fabrication Process for Quantum Computing Applications”, Superconducting Qubits and Algorithms (SQA) Conference, Munich, Germany, 29 Aug -1st Sept., 2023, Poster.

102) V. Seferai, P.G. Baity, J. Barbosa, S. Peeters, C. Lennon, J.A. Collins, P. Foshat, S. P. Khanjari, C. Fu, J. Paul, D. Hemakumara, H. Knoops, W.M.M. Kessels, K. Delfanazari, R. Hadfield, M. Weides, Recent material developments for superconducting quantum circuits’– CEC/ICMC 2023, Hawaii, USA, invited talk.

101) Jharna Paul, Valentino Seferai, Cong Fu, Chunlin Qu, Thomas Mclurg, Paul Reynolds, Paul Baity, and Martin Weides, “Fabrication of Airbridges for Superconducting Quantum Circuits” presented at the Superconducting Quantum Devices in the UK (SQD23) Conference, Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow, Glasgow, 6-7 July, 2023.

100) Kaivan Karami, Valentino Seferai, Jharna Paul, Joe Bronstein, Thomas Mclurg, and Martin P. Weides, Optimisation of aluminium deposition for Josephson junctions, Superconducting Quantum Devices 2023, Glasgow July 2023, Poster.

99) Paul G Baity, Connor Maclean, Valentino Seferai, Joe Bronstein, Tania Hemakumara, Yi Shu, Harm Knoops, Russ Renzas, Martin P Weides, Circle fit optimization for resonator quality factor measurements, APS March Meeting 2023, talk.

98) Martin Weides, Superconducting quantum circuits: coupling from single resonators to a bosonic mode ensemble, Royal Holloway University London, 24/02/2023, invited talk.

97) Jharna Paul, Joe Bronstein, Kaivan Karami, Valentino Seferai, Nicholas Nugent, Paul Baity, Sergey Danilin and Martin Weides, “Superconducting Devices for Quantum Computing Applications”, James Watt Nanofabrication Centre (JWNC) user community University of Glasgow, 16th January 2023, talk.

96) David López-Núñez, Computació Quàntica, Outreach talk, Talks at Institutes (CE Dolmen), February 10 2023, L'Hospitalet                                                                                                                                                             

95) David López-Núñez, Cómo hacer un ordenador cuántico?, Outreach talk, Quantum Day at Benasque Spring School, April 14 2023, Centro de ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual (Benasque, Spain).                                                                                                                                 

94) David López-Núñez, Com fer un ordinador quàntic?, Outreach talk, Encontres amb el tercer cicle, April 25 2023, Barcelona                                                                                                                                                           

93) David López-Núñez, Computació Quàntica, Outreach talk, Talks at Institutes (Torras i Bages), March 9 2023, L'Hospitalet                                                                                                                                                              

92) David López-Núñez, Cómo hacer un ordenador cuántico?, Outreach talk, Festa de la Ciència, June 10 2023, Barcelona                                

91) Elia Bertoldo, Reducing the cosmic muon flux in experiments with superconducting qubits, contributed talk, APS March Meeting 2023, 5–10 March 2023 in Las Vegas (USA).

90) Ana Palacios, Artur Garcia Saez, Marta P. Estarellas (Qilimanjaro), Assessing the hardness of adiabatic algorithms through closest approximate symmetry, poster presentation, AQC Conference, June 2023, Alburqueque (USA). 

89) Maria Hita Pérez, Pedro Orellana, Juan José García Ripoll, Manuel Pino, Bound state in the continuum in a fluxonium qutrit, contributed talk, Spring School on Superconducting Qubit Technology, April 2023, Centro de ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual (Benasque, Spain)

88) Fernando Javier Gómez Ruiz, Pablo Díez-Valle, De la computación clásica a la cuántica: 

¿En qué punto estamos y qué podemos esperar?, invited talk, Jornada Científico-Tecnológica – IES Guadarrama, June 2023, Madrid (Spain).

87) Gabriel Jaumà, Maria Hita Perez, Carlos Vega, Aprendiendo computación cuántica, jugando con Qiskit Blocks, invited talk, Conferencias de catálogo CSIC para colegios e institutos, IES María Zambrano, June 2023, Madrid (Spain).

86) Gabriel Jaumà, Juan José García-Ripoll, Manuel Pino, Analysis of Quantum Annealing Architectures: A Spin Glass Perspective, invited talk, Quantum Information in Spain ICE-8, June 2023, Mathematics faculty of the university of Santiago de Compostela (Spain).

85) Fernando Javier Gómez Ruiz / Santiago Higuera-Quintero, Ferney J. Rodríguez, Luis Quiroga, Experimental validation of the Kibble-Zurek mechanism on a digital quantum computer, Applications of Ultracold Rydberg Gases, July 2023, Bad Honnef (Germany).

84) Juan José García-Ripoll, Tecnologías cuánticas: qué son y por qué son importantes., Encuentro "Algo más que asombro. El desconcertante mundo de la Cuántica", May 2023, Tenerife (Spain).

83) Matthias Werner, Artur Garcia Saez, Marta P. Estarellas (Qilimanjaro), A graph-theoretical analysis on first order quantum phase transitions for adiabatic quantum computing, QIP Conference, February 2023, Ghent, (Belgium). 

82) Matthias Werner, Artur Garcia Saez, Marta P. Estarellas (Qilimanjaro), Localization and spectral gap scaling in adiabatic quantum computing, AQC Conference, June 2023, Alburqueque (USA). 

81) Nikolai Drobotun, Daniël Bouman (Delft Circuits), A Cost-Effective Measurement System for Calibrated Characterization of Microwave Components at Cryogenic Temperatures, contributed talk, APS March Meeting 2023, 5–10 March 2023 in Las Vegas (USA). 

80) Simon Geisert (KIT), Modular flip-chip architecture for generalized flux qubits, contributed talk, APS March Meeting 2023, 5–10 March 2023 in Las Vegas (USA). 

79) Soeren Ihssen, Modular flip-chip architecture for generalized flux qubits, contributed talk, DPG (German Physical Society) March Meeting, March 2023, Dresden (Germany). 

78) Soeren Ihssen, cQED in a modular architecture, contributed talk, Spring School on Superconducting Qubit Technology, April 2023, Centro de ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual (Benasque, Spain)

77) Nicolas Roch (CNRS), Josephson meta-materials: a new platform for quantum optics, invited talk, March Meetings, Las Vegas (USA), March 2023.

76) Nicolas Roch (CNRS), Josephson meta-materials: a new platform for quantum optics, invited talk, WQED23, Erice (Italy), May 2023. 

75) Nicolas Roch (CNRS), Josephson meta-materials: a new platform for quantum optics, invited talk, International Workshop on CNRS − Industry Collaborations (IWCIC), Online, June 2023. 

74) Nicolas Roch (CNRS), Josephson meta-materials: a new platform for quantum optics, invited talk, Congrès SFP, Paris (France), July 2023. 

73) Arpit Ranadive (CNRS), Microwave quantum optics with Josephson traveling wave parametric amplifiers : generation of two-mode squeezed states, contributed talk, March Meetings, Las Vegas (USA), March 2023.          

72) Pol Forn Díaz (IFAE), Quantum Annealing with Superconducting Qubits, contributed talk, Quantum Information in Spain (ICE-8), CESGA, Santiago de Compostela, Spain., May, 2023. 

2022:

72) Nicolas Vogt, Keith R. Fratus, Kirsten Bark, Juha Leppäkangas, Sebastian Zanker, Michael Marthaler, Jan-Michael Reiner (HQS), Advantages of a system-bath approach, Exciton Science workshop, Australian Centre for Excellence in Excition Science, 23 November 2022. 

71) Matthias Werner, Marta P. Estarellas and Artur Garcia Saez (Qilimanjaro), A graph-theoretical analysis on first order quantum phase transitions for adiabatic quantum computing, INQA conference, November 2022, London (UK).

70) Maria Hita Pérez, Carlos Vega, Guillermo F. Peñas (CSIC), Ciencia en el Bar, Semana de la Ciencia 2022, contributed talk, November 2022, Madrid (Spain). 

69) Gabriel Jaumà, Cristian Tabares (CSIC), Bit vs. Qubit, Semana de la Ciencia 2022, contributed talk, November 2022, Madrid (Spain).

68) Juan José García-Ripoll (CSIC), Using Quantum Annealers for Brief Periods of Time, invited talk, INQA conference, November 2022, London (UK).

67) Juan José García-Ripoll (CSIC), Using Quantum Annealers for Brief Periods of Time, invited talk, INQA conference, November 2022, London (UK).

66) Ana Palacios, Marta P. Estarellas and Artur Garcia Saez (Qilimanjaro), Analysis on gaps, encodings and hybrid approaches at Qilimanjaro, contributed talk, INQA conference, November 2022, London (UK).

65) Martin Weides (UG), What is Quantum Computing?, Quantum Technology School (for Secondary School pupils), University of Glasgow, 07/09/2022, talk

64) Jharna Paul, Martin Weides and Robert Hadfield (UG), “Fabrication of Superconducting-devices for Quantum Technologies” James Watt Nanofabrication Centre (JWNC) Mini Conference, at Glasgow, 17th May, 2022, talk

63) Jharna Paul and Martin Weides (UG), “Optimisation of Wafer-Scale Superconducting Qubit Devices”, University of Glasgow Centre for Quantum Technology (CQT) Seminar Series, 4th March 2022, talk

62) David López-Núñez (IFAE), Com fer un ordinador quàntic?, Outreach talk, Dissabtes de la Física 2022, February 19 2022, Barcelona                                                                             

61) David López-Núñez (IFAE), Computació Quàntica, Outreach talk, Bojos per la Supercomputació 2022, March 11 2022, Barcelona                                                                      

60) David López-Núñez (IFAE), Quantum careers: My experience, Outreach talk, Quantum Career Symposium, April 8 2022, Barcelona                                                                             

59) David López-Núñez (IFAE), Com pots fer un ordinador quàntic (si això és el que vols), Outreach talk, Festa de la Ciència 2022, May 18 2022, Barcelona       

58) Pol Forn Díaz (IFAE), AVaQus Project Progress, invited Online talk, TSRC workshop on Scientific Applications of Quantum Annealers, 111-16 June 2022, Telluride, Colorado. 

57) Luca Cozzolino (IFAE), David López-Nuñez (IFAE), Fabian Zwiehoff (IFAE), Elia Bertoldo (IFAE), Barkay Guttel (IFAE), Paul Baity (UG), Manel Martínez (IFAE), Martin Weides (UG), Pol Forn-Díaz(IFAE), Coherent Four-Josephson Junction Flux Qubits For Quantum Annealing, poster contribution, QUANTUMatter2022, 21-23 June 2022, Barcelona. 

56) David López-Nuñez (IFAE), Fabian Zwiehoff (IFAE), Coherent Four-Josephson Junction Flux Qubits For Quantum Annealing, poster contribution, Adiabatic Quantum Computation 2022, 20-24 June 2022, Trieste. 

55) David López-Nuñez (IFAE), Elia Bertoldo (IFAE), Coherent Four-Josephson Junction Flux Qubits For Quantum Annealing, poster contribution, Superconducting Qubits and Algorithms 2022, 25-28 August 2022, Helsinki. 

54) Jharna Paul (UG), Optimisation of Wafer-Scale Superconducting Qubit-devices at University of Glasgow, Centre for Quantum Technology seminar (online), Friday 4th March 2022.

53) Paul Baity (UG), Martin Weides (UG), AVaQus annealer chip demonstrator, Opening ceremony of Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow., 8th June 2022.

52) Martin Weides (UG), Superconducting circuits for quantum information processing, in-person talk, IoP 7th Superconductivity Summer School, Oxford, 7th July 2022. 

51) Paul Baity (UG), Martin Weides (UG), AVaQus annealer chip demonstrator, Quantum Technology School (for pupils), University of Glasgow, 6th-7th September 2022.

50) Ioan Pop (KIT), Superconducting quantum hardware and muons: challenges and opportunities, invited talk, Muon Spin Rotation Conference (uSR 2020), 28 August-2 September 2022, Parma (Italy).

49) Simon Geisert (KIT), Flip Chip Implementation of Generalized Flux Qubits, contributed talk, Annual meeting of the German Physics Society: DPG, Regensburg (Germany), 5-9 September 2022. 

48) Soeren Ichsen (KIT), Modular Architecture for Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics, contributed talk, Annual meeting of the German Physics Society: DPG, Regensburg (Germany), 5-9 September 2022. 

47) Nicolas Gosling (KIT), Multiplexed readout of flux qubits quantum jumps, poster contribution, Annual meeting of the German Physics Society: DPG, Regensburg (Germany), 5-9 September 2022.

46) Simon Geisert (KIT), Superconducting circuit quantization from first principles, contributed talk, High Impedance Quantum Circuits Workshop (HIQCing 2022), Annecy (France), 22-29 July 2022. 

45) Soeren Ichsen (KIT Two qubit gates in a modular flip-chip architecture, contributed talk, High Impedance Quantum Circuits Workshop (HIQCing 2022), Annecy (France), 22-29 July 2022. 

44) Nicolas Gosling (KIT), Multiplexed readout of flux qubits quantum jumps, contributed talk, High Impedance Quantum Circuits Workshop (HIQCing 2022), Annecy (France), 22-29 July 2022. 

43) Nicolas Roch (CNRS), Josephson meta-materials: a new platform for quantum optics, invited seminar, APC non-linear photonics, Maastricht (Netherlands), July 2022. 

42) Daniël Bouman (Delft Circuits), Scalable Quantum i/o: Advances in Integrated Cryogenic Microwave Components in Flexible Stripline Structures Part 2/2, contributed talk, APS March Meeting 2022, Chicago (USA), March 2022.

41) Kiefer Vermeulen (Delft Circuits), Scalable Quantum i/o: Advances in Integrated Cryogenic Microwave Components in Flexible Stripline Structures Part 1/2, contributed talk, APS March Meeting 2022, Chicago (USA), March 2022.

40) Nicolas Vogt (HQS Quantum Simulations), Obtaining effective noisy systems by simulating noiseless systems on NISQ hardware, contributed talk, APS March Meeting 2022, Chicago (USA), March 2022.

39) Kirsten Bark (HQS Quantum Simulations), Quantum simulation of the spin-boson model with noisy gate-based quantum computer, contributed talk, APS March Meeting 2022, Chicago (USA), March 2022.

38) Fernando J. Gómez-Ruiz (CSIC), Desarmando un computador cuántico, ¿Qué tiene por dentro esta caja?, contributed talk, Semana de la Ciencia 2022, Madrid (Spain), November 2022.

37)  Fernando J. Gómez-Ruiz (CSIC), Is it possible to estimate the distribution of topological defects in magnetic systems in the same way as in cosmological systems?, contributed talk, Virtual Physics Colloquim, online, 24th February 2022.

36) Fernando J. Gómez-Ruiz (CSIC), Beyond the Kibble-Zurek mechanism --- Universal distribution of topological defects created across a phase transition, contributed talk, APS March Meeting 2022, Chicago (USA), March 2022. 

35) Fernando J. Gómez-Ruiz (CSIC), Benchmarking quantum annealing dynamics: the Spin-Vector Langevin model, contributed talk, APS March Meeting 2022, Chicago (USA), March 2022. 

34) Maria Hita-Pérez (CSIC), Ultrastrong capacitive and inductive couplings of flux qubits, contributed talk, APS March Meeting 2022, Chicago (USA), March 2022. 

33) Maria Hita-Pérez (CSIC), Three-Josephson junctions flux qubit coupling for Adiabatic Quantum Computation, contributed talk, Seminar at the University of Salamanca (Spain), March 2022.

32) Maria Hita-Pérez (CSIC), Coupling 3-Josephson Junctions Flux Qubits for Adiabatic Quantum Computation, contributed talk, Quantum Information in Spain ICE-7, Granada (Spain), 13rd May 2022.

31)  Maria Hita-Pérez (CSIC), Coupling 3-Josephson junctions flux qubits for Non-stoquastic Adiabatic Quantum Computation, contributed talk, ICTP Conference on Adiabatic Quantum Computation / Quantum Annealing (hosting AQC2022), Trieste (Italy), June 2022.

30)  Maria Hita-Pérez (CSIC), Designing superconducting Circuit Architectures for Adiabatic Quantum Computing, contributed talk, seminar at the High Energy Physics Center (IFAE), Barcelona (Spain), June 2022.

29) Maria Hita-Pérez (CSIC), Quasi Bound-State in the continuum in a heavy fluxonium qutrit, contributed talk, CMD 29, Manchester (UK), August 2022. 

28) Fernando J. Gómez-Ruiz (CSIC), Kibble-Zurek Mechanism of Ising Domains, contributed talk, Virtual Physics Colloquium, online, August 2022.

27) Maria Hita-Pérez (CSIC), Cuántico, ¿y eso qué significa?, contributed talk, Conferencias de catálogo CSIC para colegios e institutos, Madrid (Spain), all school year. 

26) Maria Hita-Pérez (CSIC), Aprendiendo computación cuántica, jugando con Qiskit Blocks, contributed talk, Conferencias de catálogo CSIC para colegios e institutos, Madrid (Spain), all school year. 

25)  Matthias Werner, Marta P. Estarellas and Artur Garcia Saez (Qilimanjaro), Localisation, Quantum Phase Transitions and Graph Theory for Adiabatic Quantum Computing, Adiabatic Quantum Computation 2022, 20-24 June 2022, Trieste. 

24)  Matthias Werner, Marta P. Estarellas and Artur Garcia Saez (Qilimanjaro), A graph-theoretic analysis on first order quantum phase transitions for adiabatic quantum computing, invited talk, INQA seminar, 12 July 2022, online. 

23)  Matthias Werner, Marta P. Estarellas and Artur Garcia Saez (Qilimanjaro), The power of density: Suppression of quantum phase transitions via dense driver Hamiltonians in adiabatic quantum computation, contributed talk, APS March Meeting 2022, Chicago (USA), March 2022. 

22) Ana Palacios, Marta P. Estarellas and Artur Garcia Saez (Qilimanjaro), Steered quantum annealing: improving time efficiency with partial information, contributed talk, QIP conference, 7-11 March 2022, Pasadena (USA). 

21) Ana Palacios, Marta P. Estarellas and Artur Garcia Saez (Qilimanjaro), Steered quantum annealing: improving time efficiency with partial information, contributed talk, APS March Meeting 2022, Chicago (USA), March 2022. 

20) Pol Forn Díaz (IFAE), AVaQus project review, invited talk, International Network on Quantum Annealing (INQA) Conference, University College London, London UK., November 2022.

2021:

19)     Pol Forn Díaz (IFAE), Superconducting qubits for near-term applications at IFAE, invited seminar, Quantum Engineering Seminar Series, 11 February 2021, University of Glasgow, online international event.

18)     Chun Heung Wong (Delft Circuits), Scalable Quantum i/o: Integrated Cryogenic Microwave Components in Flexible Stripline Structures, oral contribution, APS March meeting 2021, March 2021, online international conference.

17)     Nicolas Roch (CNRS), Josephson metamaterial for quantum limited amplification, plenary talk, Workshop on Cryo-Electronic Devices 2021, 25-26 March 2021, online international workshop.

16)     Pol Forn Díaz (IFAE), The AVaQus project: Annealing-based Variational Quantum processors, invited talk, Clustering and Global Challenges, 7-9 April 2021, online international conference.

15)     Nicolas Roch (CNRS), A SNAIL Travelling Wave Parametric Amplifier, invited talk, Clustering and Global Challenges, 7-9 April 2021, online international conference.

14)     Nicolas Roch (CNRS), Josephson metametarials: a new platform for quantum optics, invited talk, Topology meets Quantum Optics, 02-04 June 2021, online international conference. 

13)     Manuel Pino (CSIC), Mediator-assisted cooling in quantum annealing, oral contribution, Adiabatic Quantum Computing Conference, 22-25 June 2021, online international conference.

12)     Pol Forn Díaz (IFAE), Introducing project AVaQus: Annealing-based variational quantum processors, invited talk, Adiabatic Quantum Computing Conference, 22-25 June 2021, online international conference.

11)  Maria Hita (CSIC), 3-Josephson junction flux qubit couplings and non-stoquasticity, poster contribution, Adiabatic Quantum Computing Conference, 22-25 June 2021, online international conference.

10)  Matthias Werner, Marta P. Estarellas and Artur Garcia Saez (Qilimanjaro), AQSort: A quantum sorting algorithm for adiabatic quantum computers, poster contribution, TQC 2021 - 16th Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography, 5-8 July 2021, online international conference.  

9) Martin Weides (UG), Superconducting Hardware for Quantum Computing, invited online talk, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, 15th September 2021.

8) Nicolas Roch (CNRS), Josephson meta-materials: a new platform for quantum optics, invited seminar, AQT Seminar, online, November 2021. 

7) Maria Hita-Pérez (CSIC), 3-Josephson junctions flux qubit couplings for quantum computation, contributed talk, Quantum Conference 2021, Bilbao (Spain), November 2021. 

6) Maria Hita-Pérez (CSIC), Cuántico, ¿y eso qué significa?, contributed talk, Semana de la Ciencia 2021, Madrid (Spain), November 2021.

5) Maria Hita-Pérez (CSIC), Aprendiendo computación cuántica: jugando con Qiskit Blocks, contributed talk, Semana de la Ciencia 2021, Madrid (Spain), November 2021.

4) Ana Palacios (Qilimanjaro), Quantum annealing and associated models of computation, contributed talk, CQT seminar, 19 October 2021, online.

3) Pol Forn Díaz (IFAE), Quantum Technologies: Present and Future, invited talk, BIST Conference, Barcelona, Spain, November 2021.

2) Pol Forn Díaz (IFAE), Superconducting qubits for Quantum Computing and Particle Physics Experiments, invited talk, III Congrés Anual de la Societat Catalana de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia, Barcelona, Spain, November 2021.

2020:

1)     Ioan Pop (KIT), High Impedance Quantum Circuits using granular Aluminum, invited talk, 29th Materials for Advanced Metallization, 16-19 November 2020, online. 

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