Dear quanta, Grad students especially may be interested in the iQuISE seminars and other activities. See below for their first talk. To get on the list, you should write Sara Mouradian &lt;smouradi(a)mit.edu&gt;du>. In general I won't forward these announcements to the qip list (except maybe 1-2 times per year, so new people are aware of iquise), so be sure to subscribe if you want to stay in the loop. aram ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sara &lt;smouradi(a)mit.edu&gt; Date: Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 8:15 PM Subject: [iQuISE] Fall Opener TUESDAY 09/19 - Ric Manenti - Rigetti Computing To: iquise-associates(a)mit.edu Hello all, I hope you had a great summer, even without weekly iQuISE seminars! We'll be kicking of this semester's seminar series with a special *Tuesday talk next week in Grier A (34-401A)*. Ric Manenti from Rigetti Computing will talk about recent theoretical work on building high-connectivity lattices with superconducing qubits. See below for the full abstract. As always, pizza will be served at *11:45* and the talk will start at *12:00. *If you would like to talk to him about working at Rigetti, his research, or anything else please sign up here. <http://signup.mit.edu/Rigetti2> As always, email me if you are not from MIT and feel free to sign up for the waiting list - we'll do our best to accommodate everyone. We'll start our standard *Thursday* talks next week as well, with a talk by Markus Kesselring in 26-214 on 09/20. Please spread the word to new (and old) grad students, post-docs, and undergrads. --------------------- Finally, we're going to try something new this semester - We are going to try using *Slack* for the iQuISE community. Please feel free to make new channels, invite friends, have open discussions and start new collaborations! Have a speaker you'd love to hear? Tell us in the #speakers channel! Find an interesting paper? Share it on #papers! Let us know how we are doing on #feedback. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask! Any valid @mit address is automatically approved, but we will accept a broader community as well. Below is the link to join - feel free to share! https://join.slack.com/t/iquise/signup ---------------------- Thanks, iQuISE Leadership Team iQuISE Seminar Series *Parametric Entangling Gates for Quantum Computing* *TUESDAY, September 19th 2017* 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, ROOM 34-401A An important requirement for scalable quantum computers based on superconducting qubits is the availability of fast entangling gates that maintain good fidelities in a high-connectivity lattice. We discuss a family of such gate operations that are activated by radio-frequency flux pulses applied to tunable transmon qubits. By parametrically modulating the frequency of the transmon, we actuate resonant exchange of excitations with a statically coupled neighboring transmon. The operation is highly selective and does not require mediator qubits or resonator modes, and is therefore ideal for scalable, high-connectivity lattices. In this talk I will discuss the implementation of this gate scheme on an 8-qubit chip. _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip