Important announcement

Dear visitor,

Please note that this OpenCourseWare platform will be replaced at the end of 2026 by a new platform (under the same url ocw.tudelft.nl).

Courses and their contents that are currently available the platform will partly be migrated. URL’s for this content will change and content might be unavailable for some time. In addition, some courses will not be available anymore.

If you are linking to specific courses on this platform (for instance for your students), please take timely measures to avoid problems with access. Possible actions are:

  • Download the materials to your local platform (laptop, server)
  • For educators only (including TU Delft lecturers): Contact us at ocw@tudelft.nl and inform us what course you are using in what context (institute, program, period of use, number of students). We will research (in collaboration with the authors of the course) and decide if we will migrate the course, and if yes, can supply you with a new url.

Thank you.

Home Courses The Building Blocks of a Quantum Computer: Part 1 Course materials Readings 4.1.1 Introduction to Module 4

4.1.1 Introduction to Module 4

Course subject(s) Module 4. Superconducting quits

In module 2 and 3, we discussed spin qubits in semiconductor quantum dots and nitrogen-vacancy centers. Despite the differences, in both cases qubits were realized with the spin degree of freedom of the electron. It is now time to discover a totally new platform: superconducting qubits.

If a quantum computer is able to perform complex quantum algoithms it might need millions or even billions of qubits. Superconducting qubits are nowdays one of the most advanced platforms in the quantum community regarding the number of qubits, and many large companies, such as Google, Intel and IBM, are now investing in them. IBM Q experience is an online platform where users from the general public can already access a five-qubit processor and run small algorithms.

In the first three videos, Leonardo DiCarlo, Professor in applied physics, will describe a transmon, one of the basic building blocks of superconducting qubits. Later, Niels Bultink, Brian Tarasinski and Adriaan Rol will explain how to perform the operations required by universal quantum computation: qubit measurements, single-qubit gate and two-qubit gates.

Creative Commons License
The Building Blocks of a Quantum Computer: Part 1 by TU Delft OpenCourseWare is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at https://online-learning.tudelft.nl/courses/the-building-blocks-of-a-quantum-computer/.
Back to top
[sg_popup id=6]