02 - 05 June, 2025
Hilton San Francisco Union Square
San Francisco, California USA
Events
Christopher Eichler
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
From Physical to Logical: Towards Quantum Systems Tailored for Error-Corrected Quantum Computing
In recent decades, incredible progress has been made in building prototypes of quantum computers and simulators based on trapped ions and atoms, spins in semiconductors, photonic systems and superconducting circuits. However, all of today's devices suffer from errors that typically occur in every one out of a hundred to a thousand operations. To reach practical quantum advantages, computations ultimately need to become faultless, which requires the correction of errors at the physical level. In my talk, I will review recent advancements in experimentally realizing quantum error correction based on the surface code and discuss possible perspectives toward hardware-efficient implementations of quantum error correction to reduce the massive resource overhead.
About the Speaker
In 2022, Christopher Eichler joined the Physics Department at FAU Erlangen as a Full Professor. Previously, he was a tenured Senior Scientist at ETH Zurich, where he led the Quantum Optics and Quantum Computing research in the Qudev Lab. Important achievements include the recent realization of a distance-three surface code, which is considered an important step towards fault-tolerant quantum computing. For his PhD research on the characterization of microwave fields at the single-photon level, he was awarded an ETH medal. During his postdoctoral research as a Dicke fellow at Princeton University, he studied hybrid systems, in which superconducting circuits interact with spins and electrons confined in quantum dots.
Christopher Eichler and his team strive to advance research and education in quantum science and technology. Experimental activities are primarily based on superconducting circuit devices, one of today’s leading platforms for building quantum information processing devices.
