Andrew A. Houck (born June 20, 1979) is an American physicist, quantum information scientist, and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Princeton University. He is director of the Co-Design Center for Quantum Advantage, a national research center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, as well as co-director of the Princeton Quantum Initiative.[1] His research focuses on superconducting electronic circuits to process and store information for quantum computing[2] and to simulate and study many-body physics.[3][4] He is a pioneer of superconducting qubits.
Early life and education edit
Andrew Houck grew up in Colts Neck, New Jersey, the son of David and Dennie Houck.[5] He studied electrical engineering at Princeton, where he was valedictorian of the Class of 2000. He received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2005.
Research edit
As a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University, in Robert Schoelkopf's lab, Houck was part of the team that originally developed the transmon[6][7] — a superconducting qubit that is insensitive to charge noise — now the basic unit of hardware for many of today's most mature quantum technologies.[8][9] He later redesigned the transmon using tantalum, leading to a major improvement in this class of devices.[10]
In 2019, Houck led a group that developed a microchip to simulate particle interactions in a hyperbolic plane, useful in investigating quantum phenomena.[11]
He has called quantum computing an "enabling technology" to solve problems in national security, health and climate change.[12]
References edit
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- ^ "Andrew Houck". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2023-07-07.
- ^ Houck, Andrew A.; Türeci, Hakan E.; Koch, Jens (April 2012). "On-chip quantum simulation with superconducting circuits". Nature Physics. 8 (4): 292–299. doi:10.1038/nphys2251. ISSN 1745-2481.
- ^ Kollár, Alicia J.; Fitzpatrick, Mattias; Houck, Andrew A. (July 2019). "Hyperbolic lattices in circuit quantum electrodynamics". Nature. 571 (7763): 45–50. arXiv:1802.09549. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1348-3. ISSN 1476-4687.
- ^ "Princeton - News - Princeton Names 2000 Valedictorian, Salutatorian". pr.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2023-07-07.
- ^ Koch, Jens; Yu, Terri M.; Gambetta, Jay; Houck, A. A.; Schuster, D. I.; Majer, J.; Blais, Alexandre; Devoret, M. H.; Girvin, S. M.; Schoelkopf, R. J. (2007-10-12). "Charge-insensitive qubit design derived from the Cooper pair box". Physical Review A. 76 (4): 042319. arXiv:cond-mat/0703002. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.76.042319.
- ^ Schreier, J. A.; Houck, A. A.; Koch, Jens; Schuster, D. I.; Johnson, B. R.; Chow, J. M.; Gambetta, J. M.; Majer, J.; Frunzio, L.; Devoret, M. H.; Girvin, S. M.; Schoelkopf, R. J. (2008-05-12). "Suppressing charge noise decoherence in superconducting charge qubits". Physical Review B. 77 (18): 180502. arXiv:0712.3581. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.77.180502.
- ^ Qiskit (2022-09-28). "How The First Superconducting Qubit Changed Quantum Computing Forever". Qiskit. Retrieved 2023-07-07.
- ^ Metz, Cade (2017-11-13). "Yale Professors Race Google and IBM to the First Quantum Computer". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-07-07.
- ^ Place, Alexander P. M.; Rodgers, Lila V. H.; Mundada, Pranav; Smitham, Basil M.; Fitzpatrick, Mattias; Leng, Zhaoqi; Premkumar, Anjali; Bryon, Jacob; Vrajitoarea, Andrei; Sussman, Sara; Cheng, Guangming; Madhavan, Trisha; Babla, Harshvardhan K.; Le, Xuan Hoang; Gang, Youqi (2021-03-19). "New material platform for superconducting transmon qubits with coherence times exceeding 0.3 milliseconds". Nature Communications. 12 (1): 1779. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-22030-5. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 7979772.
- ^ Sharlach, Molly (July 15, 2019). "Strange warping geometry helps to push scientific boundaries". Princeton University. Retrieved 2023-11-16.
- ^ "Q&A: Andrew Houck '00 on Princeton's New Quantum Science Institute". Princeton Alumni Weekly. 2023-09-17. Retrieved 2023-11-16.