Quantum materials are an essential feature if one would like to build a quantum computer or use the quantum internet. On a daily basis, Giordano Scappucci is working on optimizing quantum materials at QuTech. He will introduce you to this field of quantum mechanics.

Main takeaways

• Quantum materials provide the environment where qubits, the elemental unit of quantum information processing, are defined and live.
• Precision in material uniformity, chemical composition and electrical properties are crucial for the requirements of having both many qubits and long decoherence times.
• Chemical Vapour Deposition is an industrial process that uses high purity gases to make high quality materials, with desired physical and electronic properties.
• Transmission electron microscopy is a process to inspect the fabricated heterostructures with high resolution.
• Temperature, electric fields and magnetic fields are useful parameters to determine properties of quantum materials such as mobility and electron density.