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SUMMARY:Muons and Quantum Computing Hardware: Challenges and Opportunities
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220901T084000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Ioan Pop (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)\nOne mi
 ght wonder: what do muons have to do with quantum computing? I will argue 
 that environmental muons and ionizing radiation in general represent a sou
 rce of noise and dissipation which until recently has been underestimated 
 in the quantum devices community. I will present measurements performed in
  the deep-underground laboratory of Gran Sasso [1] which show a significan
 t improvement in the performance of superconducting quantum hardware thank
 s to the shielding provided by 1.6 Km of granite. On the other hand\, low 
 energy muon beams engineered at dedicated large-scale facilities represent
  a powerful materials characterization tool\, and as such might play a rol
 e in the understanding and mitigation of material defects in superconducti
 ng and semiconducting quantum hardware.\n\n[1] Cardani\, Valenti et al.\, 
 Nature Comm. 12\, 2733 (2021)\n\nhttps://indico.stfc.ac.uk/event/53/contri
 butions/3698/
LOCATION:Science and Technology Campus\, University of Parma
URL:https://indico.stfc.ac.uk/event/53/contributions/3698/
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