SuperMeQ was participating in the recent Gordon Research Conference on Mechanical Systems in the Quantum Regime that was held March 3 – 8, 2024 in Ventura, US. We had a lot of discussions at the posters presenting our work on levitating superconducting microparticles and coupling clamped mechanical systems to superconducting circuits. Inspiring!
2nd consortium meeting 19-21 September 2023
The SuperMeQ team met at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. Here you can read more: https://www.supermeq.eu/events/
Magnetic trap keeps a superconducting microsphere levitated and stable
Enjoy reading today’s news article in PhysicsWorld.
Gerhard explains the world of quanta
You may have heard of transistors, capacitors and coils as components of a classic computer. But how do you turn it into a quantum computer? What does all this have to do with superconductors? What can quantum computers actually do better than a classic computer and why are Google, IBM and Intel interested in it?
At the Pint of Science Festival in Innsbruck on 22-24 May 2023, Gerhard Kirchmair (OAEW.V) explains how to elicit quantum phenomena from electrical circuits with the help of superconductors and how to use them to build a quantum computer that can do “some things” better than a classical computer. The research conducted in SuperMeQ is used as a practical reference.
Witlef from Chalmers presented at Göteborgs Vetenskapsfestivalen
Gothenburgs Vetenskapsfestivalen is one of the leading popular science events in Europe. Witlef Wieczorek from Chalmers gave a public presentation this Saturday. Young and old were equally fascinated by the pursuit to research the limits of quantum mechanics. It was great fun to present this research to the public and we received many excellent questions and had kids with curious eyes in the audience!
SuperMeQ contribution at APS March 2023
SuperMeQ presented results on its levitation platform at the APS March meeting in Las Vegas: Towards quantum magnetomechanics – chip-based magnetic levitation of a superconducting microsphere at session B66: DAMOP: Hybrid Quantum Systems I.
Cool with a nonlinear cavity
The OEAW Innsbruck team together with the team from KIT have demonstrated a new way of cooling mechanical motion. This novel method exploits the nonlinearity of a superconducting flux-tunable microcavity, which is coupled to the motion of a mechanical cantilever. By driving the cavity in the nonlinear regime, enhanced cooling of the center-of-mass motion was demonstrated. All the details can be read here, with a synopsis here and a news article here. Congrats to the OEAW Innsbruck and KIT teams for this excellent work!
Chalmers news about start of SuperMeQ
Have a look at this news article from Chalmers about the start of SuperMeQ.
Project kick-off meeting 10 and 11 November 2022
SuperMeQs kick-off meeting has taken place at UAB campus in Barcelona, hosted by Carles Navau Ros from SuperMeQ’s UAB node. We had two days full of presentations, discussions and getting together. This was a great way to kick start the project!
SuperMeQ started 1 October 2022
We are excited to share that our Horizon Europe project SuperMeQ started 1 October 2022. It is a collaboration between Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg, Sweden), the Austrian Academy of Sciences (in Vienna and Innsbruck, Austria), the Walther Meissner Institute (Garching, Germany), Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain) and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Karlsruhe, Germany).