Antonio Córcoles-Gonzalez, IBM
Nielsen Physics Bldg., Room 307
March 30, 2020
11:00 – 12:00
Quantum computing has shown a tremendous amount of progress over the last five years. Although fault tolerant universal quantum computers are still years away, we have entered an era of intermediate scale where quantum processors are starting to be increasingly powerful. In this talk I will give an overview picture of quantum systems and superconducting qubits, with particular emphasis on their characterization and benchmarking. I will also explore some ideas and techniques for error mitigation that may significantly contribute to the advancement of the field before error correcting codes get further developed.
Antonio completed a PhD on the physics of superfluid 3He at Royal Holloway University of London under the supervision of Professor John Saunders. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Cavendish Laboratory with Professor Sir Michael Pepper on hyperfine interactions in quantum wires. He joined IBM as a Postdoctoral Researcher in 2010 and has been a Research Staff member in the quantum group since 2014, working on the design, experimental realization, calibration, characterization, and benchmarking of superconducting quantum computing systems.