Academic Report Video on July 13

Prof. CHENG Guang-lei

School of Physical Sciences,USTC

Title:Correlated Oxide Nanoelectronics

Abstract:The strong electron-electron interaction in the transitional metal oxides gives rise to a dizzying array of novel phenomena that are not present in conventional semiconductor systems. Meanwhile, semiconductors are clean and dilute enough for nanoelectronic applications which are hard to achieve in oxides. Here I present the concept of correlated oxide nanoelectronics to bridge the gap between semiconductor nanoelectronics and strongly correlated phenomena in oxides. I will give out several examples to show such combination has great advantages: 1) Nanoelectric tools are powerful to study correlated phenomena; and in return  2) Electron correlations add richness of properties to nanoelectronic devices. Specifically, I will talk about quantum transport study of electron correlations in superconducting single electron transistors and electron waveguides at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface. Then, I will talk briefly on our recent progress on material design and transport study on 1D oxide nanowires. Finally, I envision possible future applications in quantum technologies.

Prof. WANG Hui

Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale

Title:Quantum computational advantage and beyond

Abstract:Quantum computational advantage is a milestone in quantum computing field, which states that a specific problem can be efficiently solved by a quantum machine while it’s intractable for all classical computers. In this talk, I will show how we realized this objective, by a step-by-step manner. In 2020, we built “Jiuzhang” quantum computer which shows a quantum computational advantage of 1014. After that, we focused on applications on “Jiuzhang”, and explore quantum nonlinear optics to implement room-temperature quantum computing based on photons.