John M. Martinis

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John M. Martinis (* around 1958) is an American physicist who deals with quantum information theory. He is a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).

Martinis studied from 1976 at the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in 1980 and a doctorate in 1987. In his dissertation, he demonstrated superconducting qubits . As a post-doctoral student , he worked at the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) in Saclay and then at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder. There he developed a Johnson Noise Thermometer (JNT), based on Johnson noise and using superconducting electronics, which was used to measure the Boltzmann constant (2000, 2005). In 2004 he moved to UCSB as a professor.

Starting in 2014, he will also be researching the construction of a fault-tolerant quantum computer for Google .

2019 Google's research group Martinis published by the researchers for the first time real demonstrated an experiment, quantum superiority ( "quantum supremacy") claim.

In 2014 Martinis received the Fritz London Memorial Prize for fundamental experimental progress and pioneering work in quantum control, quantum information processing and quantum optics with superconducting qubits and microwaves (laudation). In 2010 he and Andrew Cleland received the Science Breakthrough of the Year from the American Association for the Advancement of Science for the first proof of the quantum behavior of a mechanical oscillator (see quantum machine ).

He is a fellow of the American Physical Society .

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  1. ↑ NIST on the history of quantum volt standards
  2. ↑ Frank Arute et al .: Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor . In: Nature . tape 574 , no. 7779 , October 2019, ISSN  0028-0836 , p. 505-510 , doi : 10.1038 / s41586-019-1666-5 ( nature.com [accessed May 24, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Acknowledgment of the London Prize 2014 ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (pdf) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.phy.duke.edu
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SURNAME Martinis, John M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1958