Research in a Nutshell 🥥

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Videos of Research Talks

This page contains a (not-up-to-date) selection of a few featured research projects, publications, and filed patents. 

Some older projects
New paper: Energy-participation quantization of Josephson circuits
New paper: Energy-participation quantization of Josephson circuits

After years of efforts, the Energy-Participation Ratio (EPR) for the design and quantization of a quantumcomputing chip now on the arXiv

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To catch and reverse a quantum jump mid-flight
To catch and reverse a quantum jump mid-flight

Can there be, despite the indeterminism of quantum physics, a possibility to know if a quantum jump is about to occur or not? Minev et al.  arXiv:1803.00545 (2018)

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2.5D cQED: Multilayer circuit quantum electrodynamics
2.5D cQED: Multilayer circuit quantum electrodynamics

Can the demand for robust quantum coherence be reconciled with that of scalable modularity in superconducting quantum circuits? Yes, …
Minev et al., APL (2013), Minev et al., WO/2016/138395  (2015), Minev et al., Phys. Rev. App. (2016)

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Energy-participation quantization of Josephson circuits: Draft
Energy-participation quantization of Josephson circuits: Draft

Promising applications of superconducting circuits require designing circuits with an ever-increasing complexity. Therefore, there is a growing need for fast and accurate design, analytic, and optimization techniques.

Minev et al, in prep. (2018)

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Superinductances for quantum circuits
Superinductances for quantum circuits

How to make a superinductance from an array of Josephson junctions with high coherence, low phase slip rate, and easy integration? PRL 109, 137002 (2012)  
 

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Patents: Selected

For a more up-to-date list, see my Google Scholar.

The following list was last updated a long time ago…:

Feed-forward design optimization for 3D quantum chips
M. Facchini, N.A. Lanzillo, P.A. Shah, T.G. McConkey, Z.K. Minev
US App 17/657543  2022

Readout-Error Mitigation for Quantum Expectation Values
E. van den Berg, Z.K. Minev, K. P. Temme                                                                                     
US App 17/123876; PCT App EP2021/085954   2021

Approaching collision-free cross-resonance operation with fixed-frequency quantum devices
J. Gambetta, J. Chow, E. Magesan, A. Kandala, Z.K. Minev                                                            
US App 17/027324; PCT App EP2021/075716  2020

Translation of a quantum design across multiple applications
Z.K. Minev, T.G. McConkey, and J.M. Gambetta
US App 16/942239  2020

Techniques for coupling planar qubits to non-planar resonators and related systems and methods
Z.K. Minev, K. Serniak, I.M. Pop, Y. Chu, T. Brecht, L. Frunzio, R.J. Schoelkopf, and M.H. Devoret
Intl WO/2016/1383952015