Name: SQMS Quantum for Science - March 2024 (London)
Start: 2024-03-20T09:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-03-22T21:00:00+00:00
Location: No location set

Monday 18 March 2024
Tuesday 19 March 2024
Wednesday 20 March 2024

10:30 Morning Bakery, arrival
Morning Bakery, arrival
10:30 - 12:00

12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
13:00
13:00 - 13:30
Contributions

13:00 STFC Quantum Landscape - Dave Newbold (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (GB))

13:15 The DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Centers - Anna Grassellino Wibe de Jong
13:30 Underground / Low Temp Facility
Underground / Low Temp Facility
13:30 - 15:00
Contributions

13:30 Fermilab - Matt Hollister - Matt Hollister

14:00 Gran Sasso INFN - Stefano Pirro (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy)

14:30 SnoLab, Andrew Kubik
15:00 Afternoon Tea/Coffee
Afternoon Tea/Coffee
15:00 - 15:20
15:20
15:20 - 17:00
Contributions

15:20 Boulby - Paul Scovell (STFC)

15:40 INFN - Laura Cardani

16:00 Jon Prance - Isolab - Jonathan Prance

16:20 Jan Nyeki- Cryofree Demag
Thursday 21 March 2024

09:00 Morning Bakery
Morning Bakery
09:00 - 09:30
09:30
09:30 - 11:10
Contributions

09:30 Understanding and eliminating materials sources of decoherence in superconducting qubits - Akshay Murthy (Fermilab)

09:55 Tileable 3D-integrated superconducting circuits - Peter Leek (Oxford)

10:20 Alternating-Bias Assisted Annealing of JJs for Transmons - David Pappas (Rigetti)

10:40 Electron-beam annealing of Josephson junctions for frequency tuning of quantum processors - Connor Shelly (Oxford Quantum Circuits)
11:10 Mid-Morning Break
Mid-Morning Break
11:10 - 11:35
11:35
11:35 - 12:50
Contributions

11:35 Quasiparticles vs TLS - Lara Faoro (Google)

12:00 A theory for quasiparticle dissipation generated by embedded two-level tunneling atoms - James Sauls (LSU)

12:25 Quasiparticle dynamics in on-chip superconducting microwave resonator arrays at single photon regime for hybrid quantum circuits - Kaveh Delfanazari (University of Glasgow)
12:50 Lunch
Lunch
12:50 - 14:10
14:10
14:10 - 15:25
Contributions

14:10 Investigating Electronic Properties of Materials for Superconducting Qubits through Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy Studies - Maria Iavarone (Temple University)

14:35 Imaging single TLS defects in live quantum circuits using scanning gate microscopy - Riju Banerjee (National Physical Laboratory)

15:00 Cooling, noise mitigation, and decoherence in quantum circuits immersed in a quantum fluid bath - John Saunders (Royal Holloway, University of London)
15:25 Afternoon Break
Afternoon Break
15:25 - 15:45
15:45
15:45 - 17:00
Contributions

15:45 Simulating interactions between a qubit and a resonant two-level system bath - Yaniv Rosen (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

16:10 Characterisation of a 3D aluminium cavity for the QSHS experiments - Yuri Pashkin (Lancaster University)

16:35 Experience with TLS effect on the quality factor in 3D SRF Cavities - Alexander Romanenko (Fermilab)
Friday 22 March 2024

09:00 Morning Bakery
Morning Bakery
09:00 - 09:30
09:30 Day 3 session 1
Day 3 session 1
09:30 - 11:00
Contributions

09:30 Dark matter landscape motivating new ideas in quantum sensors (theory intro) - Roni Harnik (Fermilab) Roni Harnik (Fermilab)

09:50 Quantum computers and their role in understanding fundamental physics - Wibe de Jong

10:10 Quantum Simulators for Fundamental Physics - Silke Weinfurtner (The University of Nottingham) Silke Weinfurtner
11:00 Mid-Morning Tea/Coffee
Mid-Morning Tea/Coffee
11:00 - 11:20
11:20 Day 3 session 2
Day 3 session 2
11:20 - 13:00
Contributions

11:20 Quantum technologies for fundamental physics (experiment intro) - Ian Shipsey (University of Oxford (GB))

11:40 New ideas for testing particle dark matter and phase transitions in He-3 - Andrew Casey

12:00 New ideas for axion searches in superfluid helium - Joshua Foster

12:20 Quantum sensor needs for dark matter axion searches - Aaron Chou
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:15
14:15
14:15 - 16:00
Contributions

14:20 New ideas for gravitational wave detection and axion searches (theory) - Sebastian Ellis (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) Sebastian Ellis (Universite de Geneve (CH))

14:40 Microwave-Optical Transduction for Quantum Sensors and Sensor Networks - Silvia Zorzetti (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Silvia Zorzetti

15:00 New ideas for low-frequency gravitational wave detection with quantum sensors - Tim Kovachy

15:20 Cavity based searches for new particles and gravitational waves - Bianca Giaccone (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
16:00 Afternoon Tea/Coffee
Afternoon Tea/Coffee
16:00 - 16:20
16:20
16:20 - 17:30
Contributions

16:20 SERAPH: Dark Matter using SRF cavities and Superconducting Qubits - Raphael Cervantes

16:40 The 'Quantum Sensors for the Hidden Sector' project - Ed Daw (The University of Sheffield)