![Caption:This artist rendering shows the researchers' superconducting qubit architecture, with the fluxonium qubits in red and the blue, transmon coupler in between them.](/sites/default/files/styles/news_3_up/public/news/image/2023-09/MIT_Fluxonium-Qubit-01-PRESS_0.jpg?itok=LzzyFmYR)
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Quantum Information and Integrated Nanosystems
In the area of quantum information science, we are developing superconducting and trapped-ion quantum bits and are working to scale up these bits to a size large enough to achieve quantum computing. We're also studying how to harness quantum mechanics to improve sensing, and so far, have produced a diamond-based magnetic-field sensor 1,000 times more energy efficient than previous magnetometers. Our group continues to pioneer semiconductor fabrication techniques, classical superconducting circuits, and photonic integrated circuits for applications in energy-starved sensors, optical communications and laser radar transceivers, and more. Recently, our focus has been on developing superconducting single-flux-quantum integrated circuits to address future high-performance computing needs. To this end, we have developed a novel CMOS fabrication process that is on track to enable the most advanced superconducting circuits ever constructed.
Featured Projects
![a small electronic chip is illuminated with red laser light.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2022-06/Atomic-clock.png?itok=FMsI_q1t)
Compact Optical Trapped-Ion Array Clock
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Superconducting Discrete Integrated Circuit Electronics
Diamond Magnetometer
![Photomicrograph of superconducting single-flux-quantum (SFQ) shift-register integrated circuit fabricated at Lincoln Laboratory.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-03/GOMAC_sc_PCM411_Shift%20Register%2810%29.jpg?itok=_-bKSUqM)
Superconducting Electronics
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