This is the initial syllabus of lectures for the course --- always subject to change as the course evolves:
Physics 498 SQD --- Syllabus --- Spring 2021 |
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Superconductivity and Superconductor Devices for Quantum Information Science and Technology | |||||
Lecture | Date | Day | Topic | ||
PART 1: Superconducting Materials and Phenomena | 11 lectures | ||||
1 | Jan | 26 | Tues | History and occurrence of superconductivity | |
2 | Jan | 28 | Thurs | Defining phenomena: zero resistance, diamagnetism, energy gap, … | |
3 | Feb | 2 | Tues | Phenomenological theories: two-fluid, London, thermodynamic, ... | |
4 | Feb | 4 | Thurs | Ginzburg-Landau theory | |
5 | Feb | 9 | Tues | Characteristic lengths and fields | |
6 | Feb | 11 | Thurs | Vortex structure and dynamics | |
7 | Feb | 16 | Tues | Microscopic theory --- BCS | |
Feb | 17 | Wed | Spring Break Day #1 | ||
8 | Feb | 18 | Thurs | Nature of the ground state | |
9 | Feb | 23 | Tues | Quasiparticle excitations and dynamics | |
10 | Feb | 25 | Thurs | Non-equilibrium effects, transport properties, and fluctuations | |
11 | Mar | 2 | Tues | Beyond BCS --- unconventional superconductivity, … | |
PART 2: Quasiparticle and Josephson tunneling | 10 lectures | ||||
12 | Mar | 4 | Thurs | Quasiparticle tunneling - theory | |
13 | Mar | 9 | Tues | Quasiparticle tunneling - applications | |
14 | Mar | 11 | Thurs | Josephson tunneling - theory | |
15 | Mar | 16 | Tues | Josephson tunneling – dc/ac effects | |
16 | Mar | 18 | Thurs | Phase dynamics – the RSJ model | |
17 | Mar | 23 | Tues | Phase perturbations – thermal, quantum, rf, optical, ... | |
Mar | 24 | Wed | Spring Break Day #2 | ||
Mar | 25 | Thurs | Superconductor research papers due and in-class summaries | ||
18 | Mar | 30 | Tues | Magnetic field effects and Josephson interferometry | |
19 | Apr | 1 | Thurs | Microbridges/SNS Junctions/SFS junctions | |
20 | Apr | 6 | Tues | Phase coherence/quantum interference/SQUIDs | |
21 | Apr | 8 | Thurs | SQUID operation and applications | |
Apr | 13 | Tues | Spring Break Day #3 | ||
PART 3: Superconductor Devices for Quantum Information Science and Technology | 6 lectures | ||||
22 | Apr | 15 | Thurs | Quantum computing --- advantages and algorithms | |
23 | Apr | 20 | Tues | Macroscopic quantum tunneling and coherence | |
24 | Apr | 22 | Thurs | Conventional superconducting qubits | |
25 | Apr | 27 | Tues | Superconducting qubit technology | |
26 | Apr | 29 | Thurs | Topological materials and Majorana fermions | |
27 | May | 4 | Tues | Topological qubits | |
May | 6 | Thurs | READING DAY | ||
May | ? | ? | FINAL EXAM --- QIS presentations |