Magnet/Superconductor Hybrid Materials for Quantum Information Science and Technology

Session 4A

Roberto Lo Conte, Andreas Schmid

The upcoming revolution in information technology driven by quantum computing will require a drastic change in the way we generate, store and process information. Quantum information technology will not only allow us to solve some of the scientific problems whose complexity makes them unsolvable by classical computing, but it will also revolutionize some aspects of our everyday life, such as the way we do business, via quantum banking and quantum finance. However, in order for the quantum information revolution to come true, new quantum materials are needed to make the building blocks of solid state quantum computers. A very promising approach that is receiving much attention recently is represented by hybrid quantum systems, where materials with different properties (magnetism, superconductivity, spin-orbit coupling) are joined together to engineer new hybrid materials with emergent quantum properties, such as topological and triplet superconductivity, which can be used for the implementation of fault tolerant quantum computing and the design of functional magnetic Josephson junctions. This symposium will look at the most promising new ideas in the development of hybrid quantum materials, both from a theoretical as well as from an experimental standpoint, and their potential implementation in quantum technologies.

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