Aug 1
2026
Zihuai, Haoxin, and Hong start faculty positions!
Congratulations to our newest group alumni!!! You can read more about their research labs:
News
2026
Jan 26
2026
Students design and test quantum chips in our “Quantum Tapeout” course
In Fall 2025, 30 students in 10 teams took the first offering of EE290, Superconducting Quantum Circuits (aka “Quantum Tapeout”). Each team designed its own superconducting qubit chip, and in December the students tested their fabricated chips, measuring qubit lifetimes, readout resonator frequencies and dispersive …
2025
Aug 11
2025
Optical fridge and junction evaporator
Our microwave and optics labs had two big upgrades!
Aug 11
2025
Darius receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
Congratulations to Darius Vera on receiving an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
Feb 24
2025
Group retreat at Lake Tahoe
We had a weekend full of great nature, food, and scientific discussions!
Jan 1
2025
Sherry starts her faculty position at Columbia!
Congratulations to Sherry, who joins the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University as an Assistant Professor! You can read more about her research lab:
2024
Oct 6
2024
Google Academic Research Award
We thank Google Research for the award and for supporting our research on quantum transduction!
Aug 11
2024
Second dilution fridge up!
We welcomed our second dilution fridge, a Bluefors LD250 system, to the lab!
May 14
2024
Rose Hills Innovator Fellow
Alp is selected as a 2024 Rose Hills Innovator Fellow!
May 7
2024
Group barbecue #2
The tradition continues!
Mar 7
2024
Challenge Institute for Quantum Computation on APS TV!
See what we do at the NSF Challenge Institute for Quantum Computation (CIQC) at Berkeley!
2023
Dec 17
2023
Mutasem graduates!
Congrats Dr. Odeh!
Sep 16
2023
PhononNext Center at Berkeley Lab
We are launching a new DOE center at Berkeley Lab to develop ultrahigh frequency phononics for next-generation superconducting quantum technologies!
Aug 20
2023
Challenge Institute for Quantum Computation meeting
We had two days of fun discussions with the whole CIQC team:
Apr 27
2023
Group barbecue
Spring is here!
Apr 27
2023
Dilution fridge setup up!
Our third cryostat is our coldest:
Apr 1
2023
Group retreat to Yosemite
The team takes a break for other pursuits…
Mar 30
2023
Second 4K setup up!
The day started with boxes
2022
Dec 30
2022
Sherry receives Miller Fellowship!
Xueyue (Sherry) Zhang is awarded the prestigious Miller Fellowship! She will join our group as a postdoctoral researcher in Spring 2023.
Dec 3
2022
First results from the lab!
We showed that color centers in silicon can source indistinguishable photons suitable for photonic quantum networks and processors:
Oct 8
2022
Experiments with entangled photons
The Nobel Prize in Physics goes to experiments with entangled photons on the foundations of quantum mechanics!
Oct 6
2022
Mutasem awarded the BSAC outstanding paper award
Congratulations Mutasem!
Oct 6
2022
Micron Early Career Faculty Award
Alp is awarded the Micron Corporation Early Career Faculty Award by the College of Engineering. Thanks to Micron Technology for supporting our research on semiconductor quantum technologies!
Jun 25
2022
In a Galaxy Far, Far Away…
Our research team unlocked next-level lab note taking (and some cool science)!
May 16
2022
CLEO week visits
We were delighted to host visitors in town for CLEO. Lots of fun discussions on quantum phononics and photonics!
Mar 23
2022
Group dinner & hike
Followed by a hike the next day in the Berkeley hills.
2021
Nov 9
2021
Alp and Po give CIQC seminar
See this talk on how to build quantum transducers between superconducting qubits and optical photons:
Sep 23
2021
Interconnected superconducting and color center qubits in silicon
Like their classical counterparts, quantum technologies will need interconnects that can transduce signals between processors, memories, and communication modules. In this collaboration between UC Berkeley, Caltech, and Virginia Tech, we will develop techniques to interconnect leading solid-state quantum technologies based on superconducting quantum processors and …
Sep 22
2021
UC Berkeley-LBNL Quantum Network funded!
Our group will help build a quantum network testbed between UC Berkeley and LBNL!
Sep 22
2021
Building a quantum defect genome
Silicon is the ideal material platform for building electrical and photonic circuits at scale. An atomic-scale qubit in silicon suitable for photonic quantum computing and quantum communication has been missing. In a collaboration with computational and experimental teams at Dartmouth and LBNL, our group is …