Teaching

Fall 2025

EE290 – Superconducting Quantum Circuits (aka “Quantum Tapeout”)

Course website: https://qudev.notion.site/ee290

The course covers fundamentals and computer-aided design of superconducting quantum circuits. The course website includes references, lecture notes, homework assignments, and simulation lab assignments. We hope these materials will be self-contained enough to introduce interested engineers and physicists to the field.

Assumed background: Upper-division E&M and Quantum Mechanics.
For feedback or requests for materials: alp@berkeley.edu.

Course description: In 15 weeks, we design a superconducting quantum circuit and test it! Each team designs a superconducting qubit capable of single-qubit control and dispersive state readout using circuit quantum electrodynamics. The challenging goal is to learn microwave engineering and quantum optics principles for superconducting qubits, use finite element analysis and CAD software to design the circuits, and submit a design in 10 weeks! The designs are fabricated at Berkeley, and students test their circuits by the end of the term.

Acknowledgements: NSF Challenge Institute for Quantum Computation and UC Berkeley EECS department for supporting the development of this course.

A chip fabricated in the course, with qubits designed by student teams — A chip with student qubit designs, Fall 2025. Read about the first offering.