Alp Sipahigil (Advisor)

Research advised by BSAC Co-Director Alp Sipahigil

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Leo Sementilli

Postdoctoral Researcher
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Alp Sipahigil (Advisor)

Haoxin Zhou

Postdoctoral Researcher
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Alp Sipahigil (Advisor)

Haoxin Zhou is a postdoctoral researcher working with Alp Sipahigil in the Quantum Devices Group in UC Berkeley. His research focuses on superconducting microwave circuits and nanomechanical devices. Prior joining UC Berkeley, he worked as an IQIM Postdoctral Scholar at the California Insitute of Technology. He obtained his PhD in Physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2021 and B.S. from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2015.

BSAC Spring 2024 Research...

BPN989: Defect-Induced Piezoelectricity in Silicon

Zihuai Zhang
Kadircan Godeneli
2024

Silicon, a mature platform for the semiconductor industry, has become a leading platform for future quantum technologies. As a high-purity material, it serves as a low-noise host for a variety of quantum defects. As a low-loss material, it is a desirable substrate and material platform for next generation quantum devices. However, the lack of piezoelectricity in silicon, due to its centro-symmetric structure, poses challenges for its electromechanical applications. For example, one common approach to realize electromechanics in silicon relies on hybrid integration with a different...

BPNX1000: Atomic Force Nanomechanical Qubit (New Project)

Shahin Jahanbani
Binhan Hua
Kadircan Godeneli
Haoxin Zhou
Zihuai Zhang
2024

Ultralong lifetimes of silicon nanomechanical resonators at cryogenic temperatures and microwave frequencies make them promising resources in quantum engineering. In this work, we propose a nanomechanical qubit achieving strong single-phonon level anharmonicity of 5 MHz without the need for coupling to an ancillary qubit of a hybrid quantum architecture. This qubit design combines a nano-machined silicon cantilever brought in proximity to a silicon surface using microelectromechanical actuators. The surface forces between the cantilever and the silicon surface provide an effective...

BPN965: Phonon Protected Superconducting Qubits

Mutasem Odeh
Kadircan Godeneli
2023

Superconducting quantum circuits are leading candidates for quantum computing. Scaling up these systems for practical applications will require compact coherent qubits that store the quantum states, high fidelity quantum gates that process them, and a scalable architecture that can accommodate complex error correction circuits. Meeting such requirements is mainly impeded by the unavoidable presence of two-level systems (TLS), which act as a decoherence source that results in the loss of quantum information via phonon emission. In this project, we engineer superconducting circuits...

Yu-Lung Tang

Graduate Student Researcher
Physics
Professor Alp Sipahigil (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2028 (Anticipated)

Yu-Lung Tang is a Physics PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley. He started working with Alp Sipahigil in the Quantum Devices Group in July 2022 on the characterization of Silicon color center in integrated photonics.

Fall 2023 Research Review Presenter


Phonon-Protected Superconducting Qubits

Mutasem Odeh
Alp Sipahigil
2023

The overhead to construct a logical qubit from physical qubits rapidly increases with the de- coherence rate. Current superconducting qubits reduce dissipation due to two-level systems (TLSs) by using large device footprints. However, this approach provides partial protection, and results in a trade-off between qubit footprint and dissipation. This work introduces a new platform using phononics to engineer superconducting qubit-TLS interactions. We realize a superconducting qubit on a phononic bandgap metamaterial that suppresses TLS- mediated phonon emission. We use the qubit to probe its...

Mutasem Odeh

Graduate Student Researcher
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Alp Sipahigil (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2023

I am currently a Graduate student in the EECS department at UC Berkeley, working with Prof. Alp Sipahigil on developing Quantum Hardware. I have a background in the design and fabrication of integrated photonics and metamaterial structures along with industrial experience in electronics and photonic design.