The superconducting and hybrid quantum systems team at AFRL’s Information Directorate (RI) in Rome, New York seeks to develop novel superconducting architectures and cross-modality quantum interface hardware as building blocks for use in quantum networks.
The team’s efforts focus on three main thrusts: (i) the development of architectures for generating entanglement between multi-qubit superconducting modules (i.e. encoding/decoding multi-partite quantum information on a quantum bus). (ii) the investigation of hybrid superconducting and photonic platforms for transduction of quantum information between microwave and optical domains at cryogenic temperatures; (iii) and development of quantum interface hardware for bridging trapped ion and superconducting qubit modalities.