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  • 2018 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his pioneering theoretical contribution to quantum information processing and quantum optics with circuit quantum electrodynamics
  • 2008 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Alexandre Blais is affiliated with the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research in Canada. Their research spans several domains within computer science and physics, particularly focusing on quantum information and quantum computing. Blais's work is noted for its contributions to quantum information processing and quantum optics, primarily through studies involving circuit quantum electrodynamics.

They have published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • "Circuit quantum electrodynamics," 2021, Reviews of Modern Physics
  • "Quantum information processing and quantum optics with circuit quantum electrodynamics," 2020, Nature Physics
  • "Microwave Quantum Link between Superconducting Circuits Housed in Spatially Separated Cryogenic Systems," 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • "Loophole-free Bell inequality violation with superconducting circuits," 2023, Nature
  • "Quantum-optimal-control-inspired ansatz for variational quantum algorithms," 2021, Physical Review Research

Their frequent collaborators include Andreas Wallraff, Ross Shillito, Agustín Di Paolo, Manuel H. Muñoz-Arias, and Alexandru Petrescu.

Blais publishes regularly in several venues, most commonly in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review Applied
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Physical Review Research
  • PRX Quantum

The main fields of study encompassed by their research are computer science and physics and astronomy. More specifically, their subfields include:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics

The primary topics of work covered in their research are:

  • Quantum Information and Cryptography
  • Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
  • Quantum and electron transport phenomena
  • Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing
  • Mechanical and Optical Resonators
  • Quantum Mechanics and Applications
  • Quantum optics and atomic interactions

Alexandre Blais has received the following awards:

  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS), 2018, for pioneering theoretical contributions to quantum information processing and quantum optics with circuit quantum electrodynamics
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2008

Best Publications

  • Strong coupling of a single photon to a superconducting qubit using circuit quantum electrodynamics

    A. Wallraff;D. I. Schuster;A. Blais;L. Frunzio

  • Charge-insensitive qubit design derived from the Cooper pair box

    Jens Koch;Terri M. Yu;Jay Gambetta;Andrew Addison Houck

  • Cavity quantum electrodynamics for superconducting electrical circuits: An architecture for quantum computation

    Alexandre Blais;Ren-Shou Huang;Ren-Shou Huang;Andreas Wallraff;S. M. Girvin

  • Coupling superconducting qubits via a cavity bus.

    J. Majer;J. M. Chow;J. M. Gambetta;Jens Koch

  • Demonstration of two-qubit algorithms with a superconducting quantum processor

    L. DiCarlo;J. M. Chow;J. M. Gambetta;Lev S. Bishop

  • Circuit quantum electrodynamics

    Alexandre Blais;Arne L. Grimsmo;S. M. Girvin;Andreas Wallraff

  • Resolving photon number states in a superconducting circuit

    D. I. Schuster;A. A. Houck;J. A. Schreier;A. Wallraff;A. Wallraff

  • Quantum information processing with circuit quantum electrodynamics

    Alexandre Blais;Alexandre Blais;Jay Gambetta;A. Wallraff;A. Wallraff;D. I. Schuster

  • Approaching unit visibility for control of a superconducting qubit with dispersive readout.

    A. Wallraff;D. I. Schuster;A. Blais;L. Frunzio

  • Climbing the Jaynes–Cummings ladder and observing its nonlinearity in a cavity QED system

    J. M. Fink;M. Göppl;M. Baur;R. Bianchetti

  • Photon-Mediated Interactions Between Distant Artificial Atoms

    Arjan F. van Loo;Arkady Fedorov;Kevin Lalumière;Barry C. Sanders

  • ac Stark Shift and Dephasing of a Superconducting Qubit Strongly Coupled to a Cavity Field

    D. I. Schuster;A. Wallraff;A. Blais;L. Frunzio

  • Qubit-photon interactions in a cavity: Measurement-induced dephasing and number splitting

    Jay Gambetta;Alexandre Blais;Alexandre Blais;D. I. Schuster;A. Wallraff;A. Wallraff

  • Observation of Berry's Phase in a Solid-State Qubit

    P. J. Leek;J. M. Fink;A. Blais;R. Bianchetti

  • Dressed collective qubit states and the Tavis-Cummings model in circuit QED.

    J. M. Fink;R. Bianchetti;M. Baur;M. Göppl

  • Dipole coupling of a double quantum dot to a microwave resonator.

    T. Frey;P. J. Leek;M. Beck;A. Blais

  • Dissipation and ultrastrong coupling in circuit QED

    Félix Beaudoin;Jay M. Gambetta;A. Blais

  • Observation of Resonant Photon Blockade at Microwave Frequencies Using Correlation Function Measurements

    C. Lang;D. Bozyigit;C. Eichler;L. Steffen

  • Strong Spin-Photon Coupling in Silicon

    Nodar Samkharadze;Guoji Zheng;Nima Kalhor;Delphine Brousse

  • Quantum information processing and quantum optics with circuit quantum electrodynamics

    Alexandre Blais;Alexandre Blais;Steven M. Girvin;William D. Oliver

Frequent Co-Authors

Jay M. Gambetta
Jay M. Gambetta IBM (United States)
Robert Schoelkopf
Robert Schoelkopf Yale University
Steven Girvin
Steven Girvin Yale University
Andrew Houck
Andrew Houck Princeton University
Luigi Frunzio
Luigi Frunzio Yale University
Michel Devoret
Michel Devoret Yale University
Thomas Ihn
Thomas Ihn Solid State Physics Laboratory
Daniel Esteve
Daniel Esteve University of Paris-Saclay
Barry C. Sanders
Barry C. Sanders University of Calgary

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