New Trends and Platforms for Quantum Technologies
暫譯: 量子技術的新趨勢與平台

本書作為量子計算平台的全面介紹，靈感來自於近期在量子技術方面的進展，旨在檢測和操控單一量子物體。涵蓋固態、原子和光學平台，深入探討量子計算的各個方面，包括拓撲量子計算。內容涵蓋量子電路的製造、建模和數值實現，例如約瑟夫森接面（Josephson junctions）和量子位（qubits），以及混合納米結構。此外，本書介紹了量子糾纏，這是量子通信和信息處理中的關鍵概念。精心編排的主題和簡潔的呈現使本書成為量子技術課程的入門書籍。

Ramon Aguado is a Senior Scientist at the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) with more of 20 years of experience on many aspects of condensed matter theory. His research deals with quantum materials and applications in quantum technologies. During the last years, he worked on topological materials and, in particular, on various aspects of hybrid superconductor-semiconductor nanostructures, which behave as topological superconductors with Majorana quasiparticles. In this field, his group has become an international reference with many impactful theory works and active collaborations with top-leading experimental groups worldwide. Other recent activities include superconducting qubits based on subgap states, the theory of hybrid materials combinations and novel qubit platforms based on them.

Overall, he has published more than 100 research articles with several publications in high impact journals. He appears in various international rankings as a top scientist.

Prof. Aguado is an active member of the scientific community and has participated in many evaluation panels, outreach activities, etc. In 2016, he became an Outstanding Referee of the American Physical Society. He coordinates the Quantum Materials and Quantum Technologies research line at Materials Science Institute Madrid (ICMM) and, since 2020, he serves as Vice-president of the Condensed Matter Physics Division of the Royal Spanish Physical Society.

Roberta Citro is Full Professor of Theoretical Matter Physics at the Department of Physics of the University of Salerno (Italy). In recent years, she has matured professional experience in many-body techniques of low-dimensional systems and in quantum transport in nanostructures. She completed her PhD in Physics at the University of Salerno (Italy) in 1998 defending a thesis on high-temperature superconductors. After her graduation, she was, first, a Post Doc Fulbright fellow at the Physics Department of Rutgers University (New Jersey, USA) where she collaborated with the Condensed Matter theory group. In 2007 she was a Marie Curie fellow under the EU's Sixth Framework Programme-Mobility Action at the Lab LPMMC in Grenoble (France) where she developed studies on mesoscopic physics in quantum gases. In 2013 she has been a visiting scientist at Harvard University.

Recently, she has established in Salerno a team working on topological superconductivity and quantum metamaterials. Overall, she has published more than 200 research articles with various publications in high impact journals. Prof. Citro has an active synergetic activity in the scientific community and has been member of various organizing committees. She is coordinator of the Doctorate in Physics and Innovation Technology at the University of Salerno, serves as referee of the APS, IOP and Nature Group journals, and is PI of national/EU research projects.

Maciej Lewenstein is ICREA Research Professor and leads the quantum optics theory group at ICFO (the Institute of Photonic Sciences) in Castelldefels - Barcelona, Catalonia. He graduated at Warsaw University in 1978 and joined the Centre for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, where he remained for 15 years, becoming a professor in 1993. He finished his PhD in Essen in 1983 and habilitated in 1986 in Warsaw. He has spent several long term visits at the University of Essen in Germany, at Harvard University with Roy J. Glauber (Nobel 2005), at the Saclay Nuclear Research Centre (CEA) near Paris with Anne L'Huillier (Nobel 2023), and at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics in Boulder, Colorado. He was on faculty of Centre CEA in Saclay during the period 1995-1998, and of Leibniz University in Hannover over the period 1998-2005. In 2005 he moved to Catalonia. His research interests include quantum optics, quantum physics, quantum information, attosecond science, and statistical physics. His other passion is jazz and avant-garde music and is an acclaimed jazz writer and critic.

Michael Stern is a Senior Lecturer at the Physics Department of Bar Ilan University. He graduated from Ecole Centrale Paris in 2000 with a specialization in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. In 2004, he decided to return to academia to undertake a PhD in the fields of semiconductor physics and optical spectroscopy. During his thesis in the group of Prof. Israel Bar-Joseph at Weizmann Institute, Michael investigated the phase diagram of dipolar excitons in coupled quantum wells. He spent two additional postdoctoral years at Weizmann Institute and worked on fractional quantum Hall effect. After this work on semiconductor physics, he opted for a post-doc in mesoscopic physics and spent three postdoctoral years working on superconducting circuits in the Quantronics group at Saclay. In 2015, Michael returned to Israel to start the new Quantum Nanoelectronics Laboratory at BIU, which focuses its research on hybrid quantum systems.

拉蒙·阿瓜多（Ramon Aguado）是西班牙國家科學研究委員會（CSIC）的高級科學家，擁有超過20年的凝聚態理論各方面的經驗。他的研究涉及量子材料及其在量子技術中的應用。在過去幾年中，他專注於拓撲材料，特別是各種混合超導體-半導體納米結構，這些結構表現出作為具有馬約拉納準粒子的拓撲超導體的特性。在這一領域，他的團隊已成為國際參考，發表了許多有影響力的理論研究，並與全球頂尖實驗團隊積極合作。其他近期活動包括基於亞間隙狀態的超導量子比特、混合材料組合的理論以及基於這些材料的新型量子比特平台。

總體而言，他已發表超過100篇研究文章，並在多個高影響力期刊上發表了數篇論文。他在各種國際排名中被認為是頂尖科學家。

阿瓜多教授是科學社群的活躍成員，參與了許多評估小組、推廣活動等。2016年，他成為美國物理學會的傑出審稿人。他協調馬德里材料科學研究所（ICMM）的量子材料與量子技術研究方向，自2020年以來擔任西班牙皇家物理學會凝聚態物理部的副主席。

羅貝爾塔·奇特羅（Roberta Citro）是意大利薩萊諾大學物理系的理論物質物理學全職教授。近年來，她在低維系統的多體技術和納米結構中的量子傳輸方面積累了專業經驗。她於1998年在薩萊諾大學獲得物理學博士學位，論文主題為高溫超導體。畢業後，她首先在美國新澤西州的羅格斯大學物理系擔任富布賴特博士後研究員，與凝聚態理論小組合作。2007年，她在法國格勒諾布爾的LPMMC實驗室擔任歐盟第六框架計劃的瑪麗·居里研究員，開展量子氣體的介觀物理研究。2013年，她曾在哈佛大學擔任訪問科學家。

最近，她在薩萊諾建立了一個專注於拓撲超導性和量子超材料的團隊。總體而言，她已發表超過200篇研究文章，並在多個高影響力期刊上發表了數篇論文。奇特羅教授在科學社群中積極參與協作，曾擔任多個組織委員會成員。她是薩萊諾大學物理與創新技術博士課程的協調人，擔任APS、IOP和Nature Group期刊的審稿人，並是國家/歐盟研究項目的首席研究員。

馬切伊·萊文斯坦（Maciej Lewenstein）是ICREA研究教授，並領導巴塞隆納卡塔隆尼亞的光子科學研究所（ICFO）的量子光學理論小組。他於1978年在華沙大學畢業，隨後加入波蘭科學院理論物理中心，在那裡工作了15年，並於1993年成為教授。他於1983年在埃森完成博士學位，並於1986年在華沙獲得博士後資格。他曾在德國埃森大學、哈佛大學（與2005年諾貝爾獎得主羅伊·J·格勞伯合作）、巴黎附近的薩克雷核研究中心（CEA，與2023年諾貝爾獎得主安妮·呂伊耶合作）以及科羅拉多州博爾德的聯合實驗室天體物理研究所進行多次長期訪問。他在1995年至1998年間任教於薩克雷的CEA中心，並在1998年至2005年間任教於漢諾威的萊布尼茲大學。2005年，他移居到卡塔隆尼亞。他的研究興趣包括量子光學、量子物理、量子信息、阿秒科學和統計物理。他的另一個熱情是爵士樂和前衛音樂，並且是一位備受讚譽的爵士樂作家和評論家。

邁克爾·斯特恩（Michael Stern）是巴爾伊蘭大學物理系的高級講師。他於2000年在巴黎中央理工學院畢業，專攻計算機科學和電氣工程。2004年，他決定重返學術界，攻讀半導體物理和光譜學領域的博士學位。在魏茨曼科學研究所以以色列·巴爾-約瑟夫教授的指導下，他的論文研究了耦合量子井中偶極激發子的相圖。他在魏茨曼科學研究所度過了兩年博士後研究，並研究了分數量子霍爾效應。在完成半導體物理的研究後，他選擇在介觀物理領域進行博士後研究，並在薩克雷的量子電子學小組中工作了三年，專注於超導電路。2015年，邁克爾回到以色列，創立了巴爾伊蘭大學的新量子納米電子學實驗室，專注於混合量子系統的研究。