Scientific Advisory Board Meeting and Workshop, 10-11 April 2025
Photos from the meeting
Programme
Thursday, 10 April 2025 - Chair: Jukka Pekola
09:00 Buses for QTF participants depart from Konemiehentie 210:00 Arrival to destination
10:00 – 10:30 Morning coffee, name labels, luggage
10:30 – 10:45 Welcome and introduction - Jukka Pekola
10:45 – 11:15 WP 1 Control of quantum coherence and dissipation - Sabrina Maniscalco
11:15 – 11:45 WP 2 Quantum machines and simulators - Sorin Paraoanu
11:45 – 12:15 WP 3 Hybrid architectures - Pertti Hakonen
12:15 – 14:15 Lunch (check-in), SAB and observers meet
14:15 – 14:45 WP 4 Enabling technologies - Mika Prunnila
14:45 – 15:15 WP 5 Exploring unconventional concepts for future quantum technologies - Mikko Möttönen
15:15 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 16:00 QTF Annual Prize ceremony, presentation of the awardee
16:00 – 18:00 SAB discusses with Post Docs and Doctoral Students (poster session), refreshments served
18:00 – 20:00 Recreational activities & saunas
20:00 – Dinner & free program
Friday, 11 April 2025
8:00 – 8:45 BreakfastSession I: Sensing, chair: Mika Sillanpää
8:45 – 9:30 Opening talk: Magnetic Micro-Calorimetry: An emerging key technology for science, society and industry, Christian Enss9:30 – 9:50 Microwave Photon Detection at Parametric Criticality, Kirill Petrovnin (KVANTTI)
9:50 – 10:10 Optimizing qubit-based photon detection, Marko Kuzmanovic (KVANTTI)
10:10 – 10:30 Detecting Gravity at the Milligram Scale Using Optomechanics, Matthew Herbst (NEMS)
10:30 – 10:50 Bolometric measurement of the quantum states of propagating microwave fields, Qiming Chen (QCD)
10:50 – 11:20 Check-out & coffee break
Session II: 2D-materials and hybrids, chair: Pertti Hakonen
11:20 – 12:05 Opening talk: Advancements in nonlinear optics of 2D materials: our 7-year journey at CoE, Zhipei Sun12:05 – 12:25 Quantum detectors with 2d materials, Ali Fida (PHOTO)
12:25 – 12:45 Quest for gate-controlled superconducting devices, Tosson Elalaily (NANO)
12:45 – 14:15 Lunch
Session III: Open quantum systems, chair: Jukka Pekola
14:15 – 14:45 Opening talk: Quantum limit cycles, synchronization, and chimera states, Christoph Bruder14:45 – 15:05 Demonstration of a quantum heat engine based on a superconducting qubit, Tuomas Uusnäkki (QCD)
15:05 – 15:25 Thermometry Based on a Superconducting Qubit, Dmitrii Lvov (PICO)
15:25 – 15:55 Bolometric measurement of quantum interference, Christoforus Dimas Satrya (PICO)
15.55 – 16:10 Coffee break
Session IV: Applications and enabling technics, chair: Mika Prunnila
16:10 - 16:55 Opening talk: Emulating the Bose-Hubbard Model with Arrays of Superconducting Qubits, William Oliver16:55 – 17:15 Electronic cryogenic coolers: scalability and large temperature range operation, Joel Hätinen (NAE)
17:15 – 17:35 Scalable Fabrication of High-Performance Superconducting Qubits Using Native-Oxide Passivated Trilayer Junctions, Pankaj Sethi (AQE)
17:35 – 17:55 Quantum computation and machine learning, Akash Kundu (HelTeq)
18:15 – 19:00 Buses to Konemiehentie 2, Espoo
SAB MEMBERS:
Prof. Christoph Bruder, University of Basel, SwitzerlandProf. Jeanie Lau, The Ohio State University, USA
Prof. William Oliver, MIT, USA
OBSERVERS:
Dr. Katri Mäkinen-Rostedt, Administrative office representative, Research Council of FinlandProf. Harri Lipsanen, Scientific council SAB observer, Aalto University (Aalto)
Dr. Outi Oila, Research and Innovation Services, Aalto University (Aalto)
Dr. Helena Holopainen, University of Helsinki (UH)
INVITED SPEAKER:
Prof. Christian Enss, Heidelberg UniversityQTF GROUP LEADERS:
Aalto University:Prof. Jukka Pekola (director)
Prof. Tapio Ala-Nissilä
Prof. Christian Flindt
Prof. Pertti Hakonen
Prof. Mikko Möttönen
Prof. Sorin Paraoanu
Prof. Mika Sillanpää
Prof. Zhipei Sun
University of Helsinki
Prof. Sabrina Maniscalco (vice)
VTT:
Prof. Mika Prunnila
SCIENTIFIC POSTERS
1. Andrey Generalov, NAE CVD: Graphene based superconducting transistor technology: toward superconducting integrated circuits
2. Antti Vaaranta, HelTeq: Analytical solutions of the open Jaynes-Cummings and quantum Rabi models
3. Daniele Trisciani, HelTeq: Decomposition of Gell-Mann String exponentials and a novelty approach to face restricted topologies on qutrit quantum circuits.
4. Ekaterina Mukhanova, NANO: Homo/heterodyne balanced detection of microwaves using TWJPA
5. Elias Ankerhold, PICO: Towards dynamical qubit thermometry
6. Erkki Thuneberg: The Difference Between Semiconductor and Superconductor
7. Feliks Kivelä, KVANTTI: Sampling thermal states with QAOA
8. Guilherme Correr, HelTeq: Quantum Chaos and Thermalization in Operator Space
9. Heorhii Bohuslavskyi, NAE: Energy-efficient cryogenic computing using ferroelectric devices
10. Ilari Lilja, NANO: Entanglement under multiple parametric excitations in quantum circuits
11. Ilari Mäkinen, PICO: Thermalization and Relaxation in Isolated Quantum Systems
12. Isak Björkman, KVANTTI: Two-photon Landau-Zener-Stückelberg-Majorana effect
13. Jere Mäkinen, NANO: Potential of CoSi2 for building superconducting quantum circuits
14. Jerin Saji, NANO: Probing non equilibrium quantum Hall states in corbino geometry
15. Jiaming Wang, KVANTTI: Observing the Poisson distribution of a coherent microwave field with a parametric photon detector
16. John McCord, KVANTTI: Pareto-optimality of pulses for robust population transfer in a ladder-type qutrit
17. Juho Luomahaara, NAE: Characterization of lens-coupled kinetic inductance bolometers
18. Katja Kohopää, NAE: Fabrication methods for disordered superconducting thin films
19. Konsta Langi, NAE: RF JAWS measurement platform
20. Kristiana Frei, NANO: Half-quantized Hall Plateaus in the Confined Geometry of Graphene
21. Kuan-Hsun Chiang, PICO: Experimental study on collective quantum heat transport
22. Kuldeep, NANO: Quantum Phase Transition in proximity induced PdTex/WTe2 system
23. Lassi Lehtisyrjä, NAE: Wafer-scale sub-1 K normal metal Coulomb blockade thermometers characterized with a cryogenic wafer prober
24. Longhao Wu, NEMS: Detecting Dynamical Casimir Photons in a Cavity-hBAR System
25. Luca Magazzù, PICO: Thermal rectification in a qubit-resonator system
26. Markus Lehtisalo , NAE: Wafer scale statistics of CVD graphene JoFETs
27. Matias Karjula, MSP: Dynamics of a dissipative Kerr Cavity-Oscillator system in phase space
28. Richa Mitra, NANO: Tuning electron-phonon coupling in Twisted Bilayer graphene
29. Rishabh Upadhyay, NAE: Towards ultrastrong-coupling quantum thermodynamics using a superconducting flux qubit
30. Ruihuan Fang, Photonics: Superconductive in Suspended NbSe2
31. Svitlana Menshykova, NANO: Raman spectroscopy of multilayer rhombohedral graphite
32. Youqiang Huang, Photonics: Spin chirality in van der Waals antiferromagnet
33. Yu-Cheng Chang, PICO: Exceptional bolometric sensitivity in epitaxial graphene via quantum interference near the Dirac point
34. Srivathsan Srinivasan, VTT: VTT Q50: Overview and Access
