Yesterday morning, LHQS member Justin Lane successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation entitled "Integrating Superconducting qubits with Quantum Fluids and Surface Acoustic Wave Devices".

Justin's Ph.D. work has focused on experiments with superconducting circuit based quantum bits (qubits) and the coupling of these tailor-made quantum objects with many-body quantum systems, such as superfluid states of matter, and quantum acoustic devices. In particular, Justin’s ground breaking experiments investigating the integration of superfluids with superconducting qubit systems pave the way for an entirely new research direction in the field quantum fluids and solids research by leveraging the precision coherent control of the quantum states of superconducting transmon qubits. During his Ph.D. Justin and his collaborators also demonstrated the first surface acoustic wave-based acoustoelectric measurements on exfoliated graphene.

Dr. Lane will soon be starting as a Mossman Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Physics at Yale University where he will be working in the research group of Prof. Jack Harris. Congratulations Justin on a fantastic Ph.D.!