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By Monica Hernandez Since its foundation, the Advanced Quantum Testbed (AQT) was commissioned as an open platform to explore and define the future of superconducting quantum computers end-to-end, from quantum processor technology to quantum algorithms. In collaboration with AQT’s expert team, testbed users will have full access to hardware and ...

Ferschweiler, a rising senior, spent two months at AQT working in collaboration with the Quantum Nanoelectronics Laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley.

Researchers at the Advanced Quantum Testbed (AQT), in partnership with the startup Super.tech (acquired by ColdQuanta), demonstrated how a smart compiler specifically tailored for superconducting hardware can optimize circuits, gates, and networks and execute less error-prone quantum algorithms such as Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA).

Experimental breakthrough at AQT published at Nature Physics on May 2022.

AQT releases 2021 progress report

AQT's long-standing collaborative research partnership with Zurich Instruments has advanced QIS.

AQT makes quantum hardware more accessible by open sourcing a new electronics control and measurement system for superconducting quantum processors,

New generations of students & researchers Raising hands are being trained every day at the Advanced Quantum Testbed.

AQT's breakthrough in quantum Error Mitigation

The Advanced Quantum Testbed (AQT) at Berkeley Lab is capturing headlines again. An in-depth piece by HPCwire about AQT as part of the broad efforts and partnerships funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science to advance quantum computing in the United States. Featuring insights from AQT director Irfan Siddiqi, head of ...

The Advanced Quantum Testbed (AQT) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) was featured at The Quantum Daily on October 25, 2021. This October, AQT conducted a small “fireside” chat for trade and industry media via Zoom. Writers joined AQT director Irfan Siddiqi, David I. Santiago (technical lead), Kasra Nowrouzi ...

Ravi Naik AQT measurement lead shared his background, from studying physics early in his teenage years to discovering quantum information science and the evolution of his current role at AQT.

El programa del AQT en Berkeley Lab reúne a diversos investigadores para la informática cuántica.

Since its foundation, the collaborative vision of AQT has incorporated scientists from different backgrounds and fields. David Iván Santiago is the technical lead at AQT overseeing the programmatic technical needs of the program. Santiago also leads the Quantum Information Science and Technology (QuIST) group at Berkeley Lab's Applied Math and ...

AQT announces the second open call for new user project proposals.

This past July, AQT Scientist and Head of Hardware Kasra Nowrouzi hosted a visit from undergraduate students from the University of California, Davis.

Three research teams at DOE national laboratories have offered their perspectives about conducting their novel research as part of the AQT user program.

One of three awardees for this year, Hashim is part of the research team at the Advanced Quantum Testbed (AQT) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)

Acceptance certificate signed after delivery and commissioning of the Raith EBPG 5150. The machine’s self-calibration protocol, combined with exceptional environmental stability, provides highly reproducible lithography.

First wafer probed using the newly delivered automated probe station. This tool allows us to gather statistics on a significantly larger number of junctions per wafer.

Junction fabrication process is ported to a new oxygen plasma asher. This new tool significantly simplifies the process, improves critical current uniformity, and improves the uniformity of how the junctions age with time.

Simulations of two qubit gate dynamics have illustrated the well known trade-off between coherent and incoherent errors as a function of gate speed. Faster gates are less susceptible to the incoherent error caused by qubit relaxation, while slower gates have lower levels of coherent error due to unwanted interactions with ...

Randomized Benchmarking (RB) is a standard experiment to quantify the error rate of a quantum gate set. In addition to being relevant for building fault-tolerant quantum computers, reducing two-qubit gate error rates enables the execution of NISQ algorithms with larger-depth. However, environmental drift is a ubiquitous phenomenon in quantum hardware, ...