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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2006 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Steven Girvin is affiliated with Yale University in the United States, where their research primarily spans the fields of Computer Science and Physics and Astronomy. Their work extensively covers subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computational Theory and Mathematics, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The main topics of Steven Girvin's research include Quantum Information and Cryptography, Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture, Quantum and Electron Transport Phenomena, Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing, Quantum Mechanics and Applications, Mechanical and Optical Resonators, and Quantum Optics and Atomic Interactions.

Steven Girvin has contributed to numerous publications in various scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include arXiv (Cornell University), PRX Quantum, Physical Review Letters, Nature Physics, and Physical Review X.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Steven Girvin are:

  • Quantum information processing and quantum optics with circuit quantum electrodynamics (2020, Nature Physics)
  • Real-time quantum error correction beyond break-even (2023, Nature)
  • Efficient Multiphoton Sampling of Molecular Vibronic Spectra on a Superconducting Bosonic Processor (2020, Physical Review X)
  • Fast universal control of an oscillator with weak dispersive coupling to a qubit (2022, Nature Physics)
  • Quantum control of bosonic modes with superconducting circuits (2021, Science Bulletin)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, with the most frequent co-authors including Robert Schoelkopf, Shruti Puri, Luigi Frunzio, Alec Eickbusch, and Michel Devoret.

Steven Girvin's recognitions include being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2007, election as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2006, and becoming a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004.

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

  • Introduction to quantum noise, measurement, and amplification

    A. A. Clerk;M. H. Devoret;S. M. Girvin;Florian Marquardt

  • Coupling superconducting qubits via a cavity bus.

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

  • Strong dispersive coupling of a high-finesse cavity to a micromechanical membrane.

    J. D. Thompson;B. M. Zwickl;A. M. Jayich;Florian Marquardt

  • Continuous quantum phase transitions

    S. L. Sondhi;S. M. Girvin;J. P. Carini;D. Shahar

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

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

  • The Quantum Hall Effect

    Richard E. Prange;Steven M. Girvin;Patrick Lee

  • Quantum Theory of Cavity-Assisted Sideband Cooling of Mechanical Motion

    Florian Marquardt;Joe P. Chen;Joe P. Chen;A. A. Clerk;S. M. Girvin

  • Observation of High Coherence in Josephson Junction Qubits Measured in a Three-Dimensional Circuit QED Architecture

    Hanhee Paik;D. I. Schuster;D. I. Schuster;Lev S. Bishop;Lev S. Bishop;G. Kirchmair

  • Wiring up quantum systems

    R. J. Schoelkopf;S. M. Girvin

  • 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

  • Extending the lifetime of a quantum bit with error correction in superconducting circuits

    Nissim Ofek;Andrei Petrenko;Reinier Heeres;Philip Reinhold

  • Magneto-roton theory of collective excitations in the fractional quantum Hall effect

    S. M. Girvin;A. H. MacDonald;P. M. Platzman

  • Quantum information processing with circuit quantum electrodynamics

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

  • Spontaneous interlayer coherence in double-layer quantum Hall systems: Charged vortices and Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transitions

    K. Moon;H. Mori;Kun Yang;S. M. Girvin

  • Off diagonal long range order, oblique confinement, and the fractional quantum Hall effect

    S. M. Girvin;A. H. MacDonald

  • Presence of quantum diffusion in two dimensions: Universal resistance at the superconductor-insulator transition.

    Matthew P. A. Fisher;G. Grinstein;S. M. Girvin

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Schoelkopf
Robert Schoelkopf Yale University
Luigi Frunzio
Luigi Frunzio Yale University
Michel Devoret
Michel Devoret Yale University
Allan H. MacDonald
Allan H. MacDonald The University of Texas at Austin
Liang Jiang
Liang Jiang University of Chicago
Alexandre Blais
Alexandre Blais Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Jay M. Gambetta
Jay M. Gambetta IBM (United States)
Mazyar Mirrahimi
Mazyar Mirrahimi French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA
Andrew Houck
Andrew Houck Princeton University

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