Journal Club


Classics


A. Blais et al.,
Cavity quantum electrodynamics for superconducting electrical
circuits: anarchitecture for quantum computation
PRA 69, 062320 (2004).

Y. Makhlin et al.,
Josephson-Junction Qubits with Controlled Couplings
Nature 398, 305 (1999).

D. Vion et al.,
Manipulating the Quantum State of an Electrical Circuit
Science 296, 886 (2002).

J. Koch et al.,
Charge insensitive qubit design derived from the Cooper pair box
Phys. Rev. A 76, 042319 (2007).

J.M. Martinis et al.
Rabi Oscillations in a Large Josephson-Junction Qubit
Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 117901 (2002).

A.J. Leggett and A. Garg
Quantum mechanics versus macroscopic realism: Is the flux there when
nobody looks?
Phys. Rev. Lett. 54, 857 - 860 (1985)

D. Loss and D.P. DiVincenzo
Quantum computation with quantum dots
Phys. Rev. A 57, 120 (1998).

J.R. Petta et al.,
Coherent Manipulation of Coupled Electron Spins in Semiconductor Quantum Dots
Science 309, 2180 (2005).

N. Khaneja et al.,
Optimal control of coupled spin dynamics: design of NMR pulse
sequences by gradient ascent algorithms
J. Mag. Res. 172, 296.

Superconducting qubits


S. Ashab et al.
Generalized switchable coupling for superconducting qubits using double resonance
Phys. Rev. B 74, 184504 (2006).

T. Tanamoto et al.
Producing Cluster States in Charge Qubits and Flux Qubits
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 230501 (2006).

Synthesizing arbitrary quantum states in a superconducting resonator
Max Hofheinz, H. Wang, M. Ansmann, Radoslaw C. Bialczak, Erik Lucero,
M. Neeley, A. D. O'Connell, D. Sank, J. Wenner, John M. Martinis and
A. N. Cleland
Nature 459, 546-549 (2009).

Reversal of the Weak Measurement of a Quantum State in a
Superconducting Phase Qubit
Nadav Katz, Matthew Neeley, M. Ansmann, Radoslaw C. Bialczak, M.
Hofheinz, Erik Lucero, A. O'Connell, H. Wang, A. N. Cleland, John M.
Martinis and Alexander N. Korotkov
PRL 101, 200401 (2008).

Model for 1/f Flux Noise in SQUIDs and Qubits
Roger H. Koch, David P. DiVincenzo, and John Clarke
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 267003 (2007)

Tuning the field in a microwave resonator faster than the photon lifetime
M. Sandberg, C. M. Wilson, F. Persson, T. Bauch, G. Johansson, V.
Shumeiko, T. Duty, and P. Delsing
Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 203501 (2008)


Sisyphus damping and amplification by a superconducting qubit
M. Grajcar, S.H.W. van der Ploeg, A. Izmalkov, E. Il'ichev, H.-G.
Meyer, A. Fedorov, A. Shnirman, and G. Schön
Nature Physics 4, 612-616 (2008)

Single-qubit lasing and cooling at the Rabi frequency
J. Hauss, A. Fedorov, C. Hutter, A. Shnirman, and G. Schön
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 037003 (2008)


Control Theory



Optimal control landscape for the generation of unitary transformations
Hsieh, Michael; Rabitz, Herschel
Physical Review A, vol. 77, Issue 4, id. 042306

Control of inhomogeneous quantum ensembles
Jr-Shin Li and Navin Khaneja
Phys. Rev. A 73, 030302(R) (2006)