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Holiday season in the hatlab.

Congratulations to Dr. Chao Zhou on his successful thesis defense today! We wish him the best as a postdoc in the Schoelkopf group.

🚨new paper!! arxiv.org/abs/2208.00024 Please enjoy this preprint where I attempt to return to my quantum roots and discuss with Anja Metelmann and @TeamHatLab how to make an ideal quantum parametric amplifier. 📢

Check out our new joint publication with the Jones Group at Pitt exploring co-design for NISQ processors. We look at which (modestly large) architectures are both (a) buildable using our parametric gates and (b) good at NISQ algorithms. arxiv.org/abs/2205.04387

Congrats Dr. Lu!

The mighty Pinlei Lu is defending his thesis! The other Hatlab students bought him his good luck boutonniere, maybe a new lab tradition?

Our Physics Artists in Residency program is today at 3 PM in Frick Fine Arts auditorium. It features not only the triumphant return of physics-inspired student art but also the return of tasty free food! So, if you are hungry and/or curious check it out!

Finally, the moment 😃

Big congratulations to Boris Mesits of Hatlab who won an NSF graduate fellowship today, and to Evan McKinney who is a joint member of the Hatlab and the Jones group in ECE and received an honorable mention!

For APS swag providers: those light up bouncy balls are great, my kids love them, but they are too hard. They're gonna end up going through a window or a cabinet front. Or maybe the same thing w my grads in the lab.

@StevenTouzard @Liv_Lanes Angela is gossiping w Alex Grimm out of frame. And it's a Magrette watch my wife bought me for our 15th anniversary.

@Liv_Lanes @TeamHatLab I miss him. Is Angela desperately trying to not get involved ? (Also is Mike rocking a Panerai ??)

Turns out arguing with your advisor post PhD looks a lot like arguing with your advisor mid-PhD @TeamHatLab

This device works by eliminating stimulated emission, so we need to replace the s in Laser. I proposed s for smooth, giving us..... Laser. I also proposed m for metronomic to give us a Lamer. For microwaves it would be a Mamer which sounds super tough. Naming stuff is hard.

Check out our new paper in Nature Comm starring Chenxu Liu and David Pekker on using superconducting circuits to build masers which are far narrower than the standard quantum limit. Started as a great coffee conversation now cool physics :). nature.com/articles/s4146…

@Liv_Lanes You are not actually holding the fish...

Just learned my advisor uses this embarrassing picture of me holding a fish when he references me in talks rip

Super excited that our new preprint on modular quantum computing with a quantum state router is out now. Represents tons of hard work by Chao Zhou and Pinlei Lu. arxiv.org/pdf/2109.06848…

@KrayzmanLev Looks like TX viewed from below so maybe it's 'like a whole 'nother country'.....

Micro island/world, in its own bubble?

@HarkNerdLento @Liv_Lanes That is indeed a classic JPC.

@Liv_Lanes @TeamHatLab Superconducting circuit people should play a game of "guess the device," with the image. At the bottom, I think I recognize a JPC with two half-wave resonators forming the X and Y modes.

Last week my former lab gave me the coolest graduation present ever: resin coasters containing all of my dead qubit and amplifier samples ❤️

@Liv_Lanes We need one more axis. Like squirrel. So |QM> = |squirrel > + imaginary |squirrel >. Not quite perfect though cause although squirrel orthogonal to QM not orthogonal to funny ;)

@TeamHatLab (|funny> + |not funny>)/√2

There’s a 50/50 chance I have a quantum joke.