Category: Departmental Seminars

Barış PekertenUniversity of Buffalo, SUNY “Topological quantum computing and planar Josephson junctions: Anisotropy, finite-size effects, superconducting diodes, and microwave manipulation and detection” AbstractPlanar Josephson junctions provide a platform to host topological superconductivity which, through manipulating Majorana bound states, could enable fault-tolerant quantum computing. A standard model of these Josephson junctions, which can be fabricated to…

Alkan KabakçıoğluKoç University “Out-of-equilibrium dynamics in biology and machine learning” AbstractDynamical trajectories in high-dimensional systems can exhibit complex and sometimes counterintuitive behaviors driven by noise. We here provide two examples: one from biology, involving the folding and melting dynamics of nucleic acids under thermal drive, and another from machine learning, where the training process can…