Adrian Lupascu

Dr. Lupascu is an experimental physicist interested in the quantum dynamics of various types of physical systems and the application of quantum effects to build new types of detectors and quantum information processors. His Superconducting Quantum Device lab focuses on experimental research with superconducting devices, ranging from quantum bits for quantum information experiments, to superconducting resonators for loss characterization, among other projects.

• Quantum Science

• Quantum Computing

• Quantum Electronics

• Quantum Information Processing

• Quantum Simulation

• Quantum Sensors

• Quantum computing with superconducting quantum circuits

• Decoherence in superconducting devices

• Quantum sensing

• Quantum optics with superconducting circuits

• Hybrid systems for quantum information processing

• Nanomaterials

• 2005, Doctorate Physics, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

• 2000, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Physics, University of Bucharest, Romania

• 2011 Early Researcher Award, Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation

• 2011 Research Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

• 2007 Marie Curie Fellowship

• Faculty, Institute for Quantum Computing

• Member, Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology

• Cross appointed faculty, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

• PHYS 358 - Thermal Physics
  • Taught in 2025
• PHYS 461 - Nanophysics
  • Taught in 2020, 2021
• PHYS 768 - Special Topics in Quantum Information Processing
  • Taught in 2021, 2023, 2025
• QIC 880 - Nanoelectronics for Quantum Information Processing
  • Taught in 2021, 2023, 2025

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

• Flux qubits in a planar circuit quantum electrodynamics architecture: quantum control and decoherence, J.-L. Orgiazzi, C. Deng, D. Layden, R. Marchildon, F. Kitapli, F. Shen, M. Bal, F. R. Ong, A. Lupascu, Physical Review B 93, 104518 (2016), Arxiv

• Observation of Floquet states in a strongly driven artificial atom, Chunqing Deng, Jean-Luc Orgiazzi, Feiruo Shen, Sahel Ashhab, Adrian Lupascu, Physical Review Letters 115, 133601 (2015), Arxiv.

• Suspended graphene devices with local gate control on an insulating substrate, F. R. Ong, Z. Cui, M. A. Yurtalan, C. Vojvodin, M. Papaj, J.-L. F. X. Orgiazzi, C. Deng, M. Bal, A. Lupascu, Nanotechnology 26 405201 (2015), Arxiv.

• Dynamics of parametric fluctuations induced by quasiparticle tunneling in superconducting flux qubits, M. Bal, M. H. Ansari, J.-L. Orgiazzi, R. M. Lutchyn, and A. Lupascu, Physical Review B 91, 195434 (2015), Arxiv.

• Quantum physics: The path most travelled, A. Lupascu, Nature, News and Views 511, 538 (2014), Arxiv.