20th Anniversary of Superconducting Qubits: Progress and Future Directions (SQ20th)

Overview

The research landscape in the field of superconducting quantum circuits has changed drastically in the last decades. Nowadays, superconducting qubits are made routinely worldwide and studied extensively towards applications in quantum information technology, such as quantum computing, quantum simulation, quantum sensing, and quantum communication. We are witnessing an exciting era of the quantum revolution in electrical circuits.

In addition, and even more importantly, superconducting quantum circuits have brought us deeper understandings of Josephson effect, superconductivity, mesoscopic physics, and quantum mechanics. They have also led us to novel concepts, such as circuit quantum electrodynamics, microwave quantum optics, and hybrid quantum systems. Superconducting qubits and related circuits using Josephson junctions are now indispensable elements as well as tools for the new frontiers. The great achievements and ongoing efforts for better coherence in the circuits should not be forgotten, either.

Taking the opportunity of the 20th anniversary of the first demonstration of coherent control in a Cooper-pair box, i.e., a charge qubit, at NEC Tsukuba Laboratory, we organize this symposium to celebrate the tremendous progress our research community has made since then and even before. We hope that many of you can join us and enjoy discussions on future directions of the field.

The scope of the symposium will be focused on physics and applications of superconducting qubits and circuits, but will cover a wide spectrum of the still-growing research field.

The program contains more than 30 invited talks. It also has poster sessions for contributed papers.

Important dates

January 16, 2019 Open online registration and abstract submission
March 31, 2019 Deadline for registration and abstract submission
April 8, 2019 Notification of poster acceptance


Organizing committee

Chair:
Yasunobu Nakamura (UTokyo & RIKEN)
Jaw-Shen Tsai (TUS & RIKEN)
International Advisory Committee:
John Clarke (UC Berkeley)
Michel Devoret (Yale University)
David DiVincenzo (RWTH Aachen)
Daniel Esteve (CEA Saclay)
Local Organizing Committee:
Shiro Kawabata (AIST)
Shiro Saito (NTT)
Kouichi Semba (NICT)
Hideaki Takayanagi (TUS)
Tsuyoshi Yamamoto (NEC)

Sponsors

Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
 - Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO)
 - Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST)
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (RIKEN CEMS)
NEC Corporation
NTT Corporation
Tokyo University of Science (TUS)