Dissemination

Participation in conferences, workshops and events

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

2) 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.

3) 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.

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

5) 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.

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

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

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

9) 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.

10) 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.

11) 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.

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

13) 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.

14) 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.

15) 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.

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

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

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

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

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

21) 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).

22) 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.

23) 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.

24) 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.

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

26) 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.

27) 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.

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

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

30) Daniel Boüman (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.

31) 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.

32) 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.

33) 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.

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

35) 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.

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

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

38) 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.

39) 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.

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

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

42) 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.

43) 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.

44) 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.

45) 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.

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

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

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

49) 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.

50) 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.

51) 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.

52) 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.

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

54) 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).

55) 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.

Non-scientific publications for general media

  • Pol Forn Díaz, European Consortium to develop Quantum Annealer under AVaQus, article in Superconductor Week.

  • Pol Forn Díaz and Artur García, Startup Qilimanjaro—towards a European full-stack coherent quantum annealer platform, EPJ Quantum Technology volume 8, Article number: 6 (2021). (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjqt/s40507-021-00094-y), synergy collaboration.