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QC Slides W: Images
Building Qubits
Suzanne Gildert
Condensed Matter Physics Research (Quantum Devices Group)
University of Birmingham
28/03/2007
What's so great
about them?!
How are they
fabricated?
Bit number
Nippon 2004
CHARGE FLUX
QUBIT QUBIT
Riken 2006
00
Phase across
Phase, or fluxjunction
inside junction
J Healey 2007
Make a via (hole) into the insulating layer and attach electrodes to each side of
the junction
FIB etching - to
produce a single
device.... or an e-
beam mask for
multiple devices...
E-beam
Junctions
direction x2
Shadow mask
Superconductor
regions become overlaid
Double angle shadow evaporation
QUBIT MYTH:
Even if you had Room Temperature Superconductors, qubits would still
need to be refrigerated down to very low temperatures.
Junction
Sample box
Fridge Insert kk
Stanford Amplifier
Fridge
Fridge dewar (He4) control
Histogram display
unit
Quantum Computing for beginners: Building Qubits
What can you actually measure?
Rabi oscillations & Ramsey fringes can illustrate the quantum
coherence (showing that the two states, |0> and |1>, really are in
co-existence
J Healey 2007
Unfotunately.....not (yet)
Suzanne Gildert
Condensed Matter Physics Research (Devices Group)
University of Birmingham
Quantum Computing for beginners: Building Qubits