Build understanding in six stages.
Begin with superconducting phase and junctions; quantize circuits, control qubits, and advance to measurement and error correction.
Stage 01Superconductivity and Josephson PhysicsBCS pairing, flux quantization and Josephson nonlinearities.
Stage 02Circuit Quantization and Qubit ModalitiesHamiltonians, zero-point fluctuations, transmon, flux qubit and fluxonium.
Stage 03Circuit QED and DecoherenceMicrowave cavities, dispersive coupling, noise and coherence.
Stage 04Control and Entangling GatesPulse design, CZ, cross resonance and parametric interactions.
Stage 05Quantum Measurement and Parametric DevicesReadout, Josephson amplification, squeezing and open-system dynamics.
Stage 06Error Correction and EngineeringStabilizers, simulation, noise spectroscopy and scaling.