The CUbit Update - May 2021

Faculty Spotlight

Michael Bennett

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Bennett’s focus is on informal physics education, studying participants in the Partnerships for Informal Science Education in the Community (PISEC) as well supporting institutions. He also leads the JILA Physics Frontier Center's outreach initiative and serves as director of education for Q-SEnSE.

Quantum Funding Opportunities

Due 6/14: NSF DCL: International Collaboration Supplements in Quantum Information Science and Engineering Research

Upcoming Quantum Events

Program any NISQ-era quantum machine with Cambridge Quantum Computing's state-of-the-art 'tket' platform

Thursday, June 3, 2021
Hosted by Cambridge Quantum Computing
Virtual

“tket” is an architecture-agnostic quantum software stack and best-in-class compiler. tket translates machine independent algorithms into executable circuits, optimising for physical qubit layout whilst reducing the number of required operations. tket's state-of-the-art qubit scheduling and routing protocol ensures optimal results even in the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era. This enables partners, collaborators and clients to effortlessly work across multiple platforms and tackle some of the most intriguing and important problems in chemistry, material science, finance and optimization.

Virtual Symposium on Quantum, Semiconductors and Power Generation

June 8–10, 2021
Hosted by Oxford Instruments
Virtual

During this free event, participants will have the opportunity to gain actionable insights from industry and research experts and liaise with application specialists in their areas of interest during presentations and poster sessions.

At this virtual symposium, you can:

Hear from international guest speakers from leading institutes across the globe
Access a wide selection of resources such as white papers, application notes, technical handbooks, product demo videos and product selection guides.
Connect with our application specialists to get tips and tricks, and advice on overcoming challenges in your research
Connect with your peers in discussions and present your work

QSS Seminar: "Laser Cooling of Polyatomic Molecules," John Doyle, Harvard University

Thursday, June 10, 2021
Hosted by Princeton University
Virtual

The tremendous scientific opportunities presented by ultracold molecules have driven rapid progress in both the assembly of diatomic molecules from ultracold atoms and the direct cooling of diatomic and polyatomic molecules. Diatomic species have been magneto-optically trapped and sub-Doppler cooled and their collisions have been studied in several experimental systems, including magnetic traps and merged optical tweezers.

In this talk, John Doyle of Harvard will discuss some of the past experiments that brought us to this point, and the challenges and scientific opportunities with the laser cooling of polyatomic molecules. Results on SrOH, YbOH, CaOH and CaOCH3 will be discussed, as well as preliminary work on more complex species.