New Trends and Platforms for Quantum Technologies

本書作為量子計算平台的全面介紹，靈感來自於近期在量子技術方面的進展，旨在檢測和操控單一量子物體。涵蓋固態、原子和光學平台，深入探討量子計算的各個方面，包括拓撲量子計算。內容涉及量子電路的製造、建模和數值實現，例如約瑟夫森接面和量子位，以及混合納米結構。此外，本書還介紹了量子糾纏，這是量子通信和信息處理中的關鍵概念。精心編排的主題和簡明的呈現使本書成為量子技術課程的入門讀物。

Ramon Aguado is a Senior Scientist at the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) with more of 20 years of experience on many aspects of condensed matter theory. His research deals with quantum materials and applications in quantum technologies. During the last years, he worked on topological materials and, in particular, on various aspects of hybrid superconductor-semiconductor nanostructures, which behave as topological superconductors with Majorana quasiparticles. In this field, his group has become an international reference with many impactful theory works and active collaborations with top-leading experimental groups worldwide. Other recent activities include superconducting qubits based on subgap states, the theory of hybrid materials combinations and novel qubit platforms based on them.

Overall, he has published more than 100 research articles with several publications in high impact journals. He appears in various international rankings as a top scientist.

Prof. Aguado is an active member of the scientific community and has participated in many evaluation panels, outreach activities, etc. In 2016, he became an Outstanding Referee of the American Physical Society. He coordinates the Quantum Materials and Quantum Technologies research line at Materials Science Institute Madrid (ICMM) and, since 2020, he serves as Vice-president of the Condensed Matter Physics Division of the Royal Spanish Physical Society.

Roberta Citro is Full Professor of Theoretical Matter Physics at the Department of Physics of the University of Salerno (Italy). In recent years, she has matured professional experience in many-body techniques of low-dimensional systems and in quantum transport in nanostructures. She completed her PhD in Physics at the University of Salerno (Italy) in 1998 defending a thesis on high-temperature superconductors. After her graduation, she was, first, a Post Doc Fulbright fellow at the Physics Department of Rutgers University (New Jersey, USA) where she collaborated with the Condensed Matter theory group. In 2007 she was a Marie Curie fellow under the EU's Sixth Framework Programme-Mobility Action at the Lab LPMMC in Grenoble (France) where she developed studies on mesoscopic physics in quantum gases. In 2013 she has been a visiting scientist at Harvard University.

Recently, she has established in Salerno a team working on topological superconductivity and quantum metamaterials. Overall, she has published more than 200 research articles with various publications in high impact journals. Prof. Citro has an active synergetic activity in the scientific community and has been member of various organizing committees. She is coordinator of the Doctorate in Physics and Innovation Technology at the University of Salerno, serves as referee of the APS, IOP and Nature Group journals, and is PI of national/EU research projects.

Maciej Lewenstein is ICREA Research Professor and leads the quantum optics theory group at ICFO (the Institute of Photonic Sciences) in Castelldefels - Barcelona, Catalonia. He graduated at Warsaw University in 1978 and joined the Centre for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, where he remained for 15 years, becoming a professor in 1993. He finished his PhD in Essen in 1983 and habilitated in 1986 in Warsaw. He has spent several long term visits at the University of Essen in Germany, at Harvard University with Roy J. Glauber (Nobel 2005), at the Saclay Nuclear Research Centre (CEA) near Paris with Anne L'Huillier (Nobel 2023), and at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics in Boulder, Colorado. He was on faculty of Centre CEA in Saclay during the period 1995-1998, and of Leibniz University in Hannover over the period 1998-2005. In 2005 he moved to Catalonia. His research interests include quantum optics, quantum physics, quantum information, attosecond science, and statistical physics. His other passion is jazz and avant-garde music and is an acclaimed jazz writer and critic.

Michael Stern is a Senior Lecturer at the Physics Department of Bar Ilan University. He graduated from Ecole Centrale Paris in 2000 with a specialization in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. In 2004, he decided to return to academia to undertake a PhD in the fields of semiconductor physics and optical spectroscopy. During his thesis in the group of Prof. Israel Bar-Joseph at Weizmann Institute, Michael investigated the phase diagram of dipolar excitons in coupled quantum wells. He spent two additional postdoctoral years at Weizmann Institute and worked on fractional quantum Hall effect. After this work on semiconductor physics, he opted for a post-doc in mesoscopic physics and spent three postdoctoral years working on superconducting circuits in the Quantronics group at Saclay. In 2015, Michael returned to Israel to start the new Quantum Nanoelectronics Laboratory at BIU, which focuses its research on hybrid quantum systems.

Ramon Aguado 是西班牙研究委員會 (CSIC) 的高級科學家，擁有超過 20 年的凝聚態理論各方面的經驗。他的研究涉及量子材料及其在量子技術中的應用。在過去幾年中，他專注於拓撲材料，特別是各種混合超導體-半導體納米結構的不同方面，這些結構表現出作為具有 Majorana 夸克粒子的拓撲超導體。在這個領域，他的團隊已成為國際參考，發表了許多有影響力的理論研究，並與全球頂尖實驗團隊積極合作。其他近期活動包括基於亞間隙狀態的超導量子比特、混合材料組合的理論以及基於這些材料的新型量子比特平台。

總體而言，他已發表超過 100 篇研究文章，並在多個高影響力期刊上發表過數篇論文。他在各種國際排名中被認為是頂尖科學家。

Aguado 教授是科學社群的活躍成員，參與了許多評估小組、推廣活動等。2016 年，他成為美國物理學會的傑出審稿人。他負責馬德里材料科學研究所 (ICMM) 的量子材料與量子技術研究方向，自 2020 年起擔任西班牙皇家物理學會凝聚態物理部的副主席。

Roberta Citro 是意大利薩萊諾大學物理系的理論物質物理全職教授。近年來，她在低維系統的多體技術和納米結構中的量子傳輸方面積累了專業經驗。她於 1998 年在薩萊諾大學獲得物理學博士學位，論文主題為高溫超導體。畢業後，她首先在美國新澤西州的羅格斯大學物理系擔任 Fulbright 博士後研究員，與凝聚態理論小組合作。2007 年，她在法國格勒諾布爾的 LPMMC 實驗室獲得歐盟第六框架計畫的 Marie Curie 獎學金，開展量子氣體的介觀物理研究。2013 年，她曾在哈佛大學擔任訪問科學家。

最近，她在薩萊諾成立了一個專注於拓撲超導性和量子超材料的團隊。總體而言，她已發表超過 200 篇研究文章，並在多個高影響力期刊上發表過數篇論文。Citro 教授在科學社群中積極參與協作，曾擔任多個組織委員會成員。她是薩萊諾大學物理與創新技術博士課程的協調人，擔任 APS、IOP 和 Nature Group 期刊的審稿人，並是國家/歐盟研究項目的主要研究者。

Maciej Lewenstein 是 ICREA 研究教授，並領導位於加泰羅尼亞巴塞隆納 Castelldefels 的光子科學研究所 (ICFO) 的量子光學理論小組。他於 1978 年在華沙大學畢業，隨後加入波蘭科學院理論物理中心，在那裡工作了 15 年，並於 1993 年成為教授。他於 1983 年在埃森完成博士學位，並於 1986 年在華沙獲得博士後資格。他曾在德國埃森大學、哈佛大學與 2005 年諾貝爾獎得主 Roy J. Glauber、法國巴黎附近的 Saclay 核研究中心與 2023 年諾貝爾獎得主 Anne L'Huillier，以及科羅拉多州博爾德的聯合實驗室天文物理研究所進行多次長期訪問。他在 1995 至 1998 年期間任教於 Saclay 的 CEA 中心，並在 1998 至 2005 年期間任教於漢諾威的萊布尼茲大學。2005 年，他移居加泰羅尼亞。他的研究興趣包括量子光學、量子物理、量子信息、阿秒科學和統計物理。