MENG 37100 - Implementation of Quantum Information Processors (Andrew Cleland)
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Instructor:
- Andrew Cleland
anc@uchicago.edu
Teaching Assistants:
- Andy Chu
ctchu@uchicago.edu - Xuntao Wu
xtwu@uchicago.edu
Approximate Weekly Schedule¶
- Week 1: History of quantum computing
- Week 2: QC algorithms & DiVincenzo criteria
- Week 3: Spin qubits & NMR
- Week 4: Spins in solids (quantum dots, NV centers)
- Week 5: Atomic systems (cold atoms)
- Week 6: Atomic systems (trapped ions)
- Week 7-8: Superconducting qubits
- Week 8-9: Photonic qubits
- Week 9: Final presentations on May 22&23 (5-8 PM at ERC 301B)
Final Presentation Schedule¶
You have 20 minutes to complete your presentation including Q&A.
Thursday, May 22¶
| Time | Name 1 | Name 2 (if two) | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5:00 PM | Nayana Tiwari | Rahaf Youssef | Certified randomness using a trapped-ion quantum processor https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08737-1 |
| 5:20 PM | Addhyaya Sharma | Judas Strayer | Logical quantum processor based on reconfigurable atom arrays Nature 616, 50–55 (2023) |
| 5:40 PM | Harsh Mishra | Minseok Ryu | A manufacturable platform for photonic quantum computing https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08820-7 |
| 6:00 PM | Hongyi Meng | Kevin Wang | Quantum Error Correction Below the Surface Code Threshold Nature 638, 920–926 (2025) |
| 6:20 PM | Maggie Ke | Glingna Wang | Towards modular quantum computing on neutral atom tweezer arrays |
| 6:40 PM | Hal Owens | Jeffrey Li | Demonstration of fault-tolerant universal quantum gate operations Nature 605, 675–680 (2022) |
| 7:00 PM | Jaesung Heo | Sarang Joshi | Individual solid-state nuclear spin qubits with coherence exceeding seconds arXiv:2410.10432 |
| 7:20 PM | Antoni Wellisz | Andrew Kamen | Real-time quantum error correction beyond break-even Nature 616, 50–55 (2023) |
| 7:40 PM | Ahmed Malik | AyJae Donis | Scaling and networking a modular photonic quantum computer Nature 638, 912–919 (2025) |
Friday, May 23¶
| Time | Name 1 | Name 2 (if two) | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5:00 PM | Reet Mhaske | Ian Chin | Single electrons on solid neon as a solid-state qubit platform Nature 605, 46–50 (2022) |
| 5:20 PM | Jialun Ge | Yizhi Zhao | Fault-tolerant operation of a logical qubit in a diamond quantum processor Nature 606, 884–889 (2022) |
| 5:40 PM | Zhiyao Hu | Jianwei Wang | Schrödinger cat states of a nuclear spin qudit in silicon Nature Physics 21, 362–367 (2025) |
| 6:00 PM | Bethel Kifle | Amber King | Universal control of a six-qubit quantum processor in silicon Nature 609, 919–924 (2022) |
| 6:20 PM | Svetlana Altshuler | Ezekiel Meulbroek | Demonstration of the trapped-ion quantum CCD computer architecture Nature 592, 209–213 (2021) |
| 6:40 PM | Peter van Vlaanderen | Majorana fermions in nanowire devices | |
| 7:00 PM | Palmer Blackstock | Shiheng Li | Hardware-efficient quantum error correction via concatenated bosonic qubits (Amazon) Nature 638, 927–934 (2025) |
| 7:20 PM | Preethika Thiraviam | Operating semiconductor quantum processors with hopping spins (Veldhorst, Delft) Science 385, 447-452 (2024) |