John Martinis, University of California,
Santa Barbara
As microelectronics technology nears the end of exponential growth over time, known as Moore’s law, there is a renewed interest in new computing paradigms. I will discuss recent research at UCSB on superconducting quantum bits, as well as our recent start at Google to build a useful quantum computer to solve machine learning problems. A recent experiment will be highlighted that extends the lifetime of a qubit state using quantum error correction.
John Martinis has been a Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara since 2004. Since 2014 he has been a research scientist at Google where he is works in the Google Quantum A.I. Lab. He and his Santa Barbara team are working to build a new breed of quantum computing hardware. He's been called the "Man will build Google's elusive quantum computer".