@TeamHatLab

Hatlab is a superconducting quantum information lab at U. Pittsburgh. We like puns and quantum measurement, and dislike higher order terms n decoherence.

 Pittsburgh, PA
hatlab.pitt.edu
Joined January 2019
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Holiday season in the hatlab.
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Congratulations to Dr. Chao Zhou on his successful thesis defense today! We wish him the best as a postdoc in the Schoelkopf group.
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🚨new paper!! arxiv.org/abs/2208.00024 Please enjoy this preprint where I attempt to return to my quantum roots and discuss with Anja Metelmann and @TeamHatLab how to make an ideal quantum parametric amplifier. 📢

Quantum-limited amplification without instability

Quantum parametric amplifiers typically generate by operating in proximity to a point of dynamical instability. We consider an alternate general strategy where quantum-limited, large-gain...

arxiv.org
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Check out our new joint publication with the Jones Group at Pitt exploring co-design for NISQ processors. We look at which (modestly large) architectures are both (a) buildable using our parametric gates and (b) good at NISQ algorithms. arxiv.org/abs/2205.04387

Co-Designed Architectures for Modular Superconducting Quantum Computers

Noisy, Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers have reached the point where they can show the potential for quantum advantage over classical computing. Unfortunately, NISQ machines introduce...

arxiv.org
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The mighty Pinlei Lu is defending his thesis! The other Hatlab students bought him his good luck boutonniere, maybe a new lab tradition?
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Congrats Dr. Lu!
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Our Physics Artists in Residency program is today at 3 PM in Frick Fine Arts auditorium. It features not only the triumphant return of physics-inspired student art but also the return of tasty free food! So, if you are hungry and/or curious check it out!
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Finally, the moment 😃
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Big congratulations to Boris Mesits of Hatlab who won an NSF graduate fellowship today, and to Evan McKinney who is a joint member of the Hatlab and the Jones group in ECE and received an honorable mention!
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For APS swag providers: those light up bouncy balls are great, my kids love them, but they are too hard. They're gonna end up going through a window or a cabinet front. Or maybe the same thing w my grads in the lab.
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Check out our new paper in Nature Comm starring Chenxu Liu and David Pekker on using superconducting circuits to build masers which are far narrower than the standard quantum limit. Started as a great coffee conversation now cool physics :). nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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This device works by eliminating stimulated emission, so we need to replace the s in Laser. I proposed s for smooth, giving us..... Laser. I also proposed m for metronomic to give us a Lamer. For microwaves it would be a Mamer which sounds super tough. Naming stuff is hard.
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Super excited that our new preprint on modular quantum computing with a quantum state router is out now. Represents tons of hard work by Chao Zhou and Pinlei Lu. arxiv.org/pdf/2109.06848.pdf
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Last week my former lab gave me the coolest graduation present ever: resin coasters containing all of my dead qubit and amplifier samples ❤️
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Good luck to @Liv_Lanes who defends her thesis at 1 PM today!
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Congrats Dr. Lanes! Apologies to her friend Robin who joined during the private portion and I ruthlessly kicked as a potential zoombomber. We wish you the best in your new job!
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Tzu-Chiao Chien defends his thesis today at 3 PM and will hopefully be the first Hatgrad shortly thereafter!
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Congrats to Dr. Chien! We are glad to have you around for a few months Klinger before you launch the next phase of your career.
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Klinger = longer
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In search of the right combo of happy and strange I will start alternating Wodehouse and Lovecraft. Also, the Laundry files series. Thanks book suggestion algorithm! Also, Amazon shouldn't try to sell me books that don't come out til November. It's cruel.
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