Semiconductor and Superconductor Quantum Devices

Dear Colleagues,

Superconductivity is itself a macroscopic quantum phenomenon with such unique features as dissipationless current flow, ideal diamagnetism, magnetic flux quantization, and Cooper pair tunneling. Using advanced thin-film technologies and combining superconductors and materials with distinct electron orderings, we are able to create devices that behave entirely quantum-mechanically. Reproducibility, scalability, and controllability of the hybrid quantum systems allow studying complex quantum phenomena and engineering a variety of quantum circuits whose key parameters, such as energy scales, coupling strengths, and/or operation frequencies may be adjusted with a required precision. At present, superconducting quantum devices are regarded as an outstanding playground for investigating new physics under well-defined boundary conditions.

In the Special Issue, we expect to present a wide panorama of various superconductor-based devices, especially those that are micro- or nano-fabricated and operate at or near the quantum regime. The Special Issue will include experimental and theoretical works dealing with ordinary Josephson junctions playing for superconducting circuitry the same role as transistors for modern semiconductor devices, quantum materials for their fabrication, different kinds of digital setups ranging from quantum bits for quantum information experiments to the most sensitive wideband sensors, and novel ideas concerning their implementation in industry. We also concentrate on hybrid classical-quantum hardware implementing classical-quantum algorithms as well as on interface between superconducting and semiconductor electronics. Special attention is paid to quantum gates and quantum neural network implementation in hardware and in software.

We are pleased to invite you to this year's HyperComplex Seminar 2024 conference on September 14–18 at the Lodz University of Technology. HyperComplex Seminar 2024 is a conference in mathematical physics and complex and quaternion analysis, also relating to the applicability of various mathematical structures in broadly understood technology such as Classical and Quantum Computer Science, Electronics, Quantum Chemistry, AI, etc.

The conference is free of charge and will take place in the Arena Magica auditorium at the Institute of Physics in Building B14. Registration is available by sending an e-mail to HyperComplexSeminar@gmail.com or to malgorzata.nowak-kepczyk@kul.pl. Online participation is possible after contacting the co-organizers Krzysztof Pomorski or Mariusz Zubert. Students are welcome to present their lectures or lecture proposals.

See you at the HyperComplex Seminar 2024 conference!

http://www.hypercomplexseminar.com/

Prof. Dr. Mikhail Belogolovskii
Dr. Krzysztof Pomorski
Guest Editors

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