We’re excited to welcome the first cohort of Quantum@UW REU students! A special welcome to Arianna Thornton, who joins us from Case Western Reserve University. Arianna is working on surface acoustic waves and has already contributed to wiring up the QT3 shared dilution refrigerator — impressive work!
Welcome to the team, Arianna!
The lab renovation is underway, and we are just one month away from installing our dil fridge!
We are also excited to be one of four recipients of the Northwest Nanotechnology Infrastructure (NNI) seed grant. This support will allow us to explore novel Josephson Junction fabrication using the advanced tools at WNF and MAF. Huge thanks to NNI for this support!
ANNOUNCEMENT! Our first dilution refrigerator, Bulma, has officially landed at NanoES! After making an unexpected extended stay in Amsterdam, she finally made it to Seattle — safe and sound.
A huge shoutout to John, Garret, and James for their incredible skill and teamwork in moving the fridge into the lab!
We’re currently waiting for lab renovations to wrap up and expect to have the fridge fully set up in the summer. Can’t wait to get things cooled down!
As we ease into the beautiful spring and summer season here in Seattle, we’re excited to welcome three new members to the CQED Lab:
Caitlynn Wohlford (MSE)
Nhan Truong (CS)
Marina Ray (MSE)
We’re so glad to have you all on board and can’t wait to see the energy and ideas you bring to the team!
To celebrate, we also had our very first group dinner — great food from Agua Verde, a beautiful view of Portage Bay, fun conversations, and a wonderful reminder of the community we’re building together.
Stay tuned for more updates as we head into an exciting season of research, collaboration, and sunshine!
Meet us in the Washington Nanofabrication Facility (WNF)!
Fun times ahead!
We have changed the lab name from CQE to cQED: Chen Quantum Engineering & Devices, to emphasize the device aspect of our research, as well as to coincide with circuit Quantum Electrodynamics (cQED), the study of microwave photon-qubit interaction, which is at the heart of our research!
The REU Program Quantum@UW is a 10-week NSF-funded research program at the University of Washington in Seattle. It is designed to offer undergraduate students the opportunity to conduct research on a variety of topics in Quantum Information Science and Engineering ranging from theory and applications (quantum algorithms, cryptography, and complexity theory) to experiments (quantum hardware technologies and architectures).
More details: https://quantumreu.cs.washington.edu/home
We will be collaborating with Prof. Mo Li’s group in ECE to investigate in-situ strain control in superconducting qubits. Read more from MEM-C!
Long overdue update: Madelein and Josh join from MSE and Physics, respectively. They will work on quantum circuits simulation and design. Welcome aboard!
Pan joins us from Wuhan University, China, with a background in quantum control of superconducting qubits. Read his previous work on arXiv here. We are excited to have Pan in CQE Lab!