Superconducting Quantum Computing　Subtopic Member｜Subtopics｜FIRST Quantum Information Processing Project

Professor, University of Tokyo

Yasunobu Nakamura

Educational Background

1990.3	Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan, Bachelor Degree of Science
1992.3	Superconductivity Research Course, University of Tokyo, Japan, Master Degree of Science

Professional Experience

1992-	Research Fellow at Green Innovation Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation
2001-2002	Visiting Researcher at Department of Applied Physics, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
2002-present	Researcher at Advanced Science Institute
2005	Fundamental and environmental research laboratories, NEC Corporation
2012 January	Professor, Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo
2012 April	Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo

Award

1999	Sir Martin Wood Prize
1999	Nishina Memorial Prize
2004	Agilent Technologies Europhysics Prize
2008	Simon Memorial Prize

Research Topics

mesoscopic physics, superconducting devices

Laboratory HP

http://www.qc.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/

Professor, Tokyo University of Science

Hideaki Takayanagi

Educational Background

March 1975	B.S. from the University of Tokyo, Dept. of Basic Sciences
March 1977	M.S. from the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Professional Experience

April 1977	Joined Musashino Electrical Communication Laboratory, NTT
July 1988	Executive Manager , NTT Basic Research Laboratories,
April 2003	Guest Professor at the University of Tokyo　(until March 2006)
July 2003	Director at NTT Basic Research Laboratories
April 2006	Professor at Department of Applied Physics, Tokyo University of Science
October 2007	Principal Investigator at WPI Research Center International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science
January 2009	Governor at Tokyo University of Science

Award

2000	Nissan Science Award
2003	Superconductor Science and Technology Award

Research Topics

Mesoscopic Superconductivity, Quantum Information Physics, Spintronics etc.

Laboratory HP

http://www.rs.kagu.tus.ac.jp/~takalab/

Chief Senior Researcher, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Scence and Technology (AIST)

Mutsuo Hidaka

Educational Background

1998	Ph.D. from Electrical Engineering, The University of Tokyo
1982	M.S. from Applied Physics, Kyusyu University
1980	B.S. from Physics, Kyusyu University

Professional Experience

2013-Present	Chief Senior Researcher, Nanoelectronics Research Institute, AIST
2002-2013	Director, Low Temperature Superconducting Research Laboratory, SRL/ISTEC
1990－1991	Research Scientist, Arizona State University, USA
1982－Present	NEC Corporation

Award

2005	The Paper Award of the IEICE of Japan
2002	The 146^th committee Award of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2000	Award on Superconductivity Science and Technology of the Society of Non-Traditional Technology

Research Topics

Superconducting Electronics, Fabrication for Superconductive Devices

Laboratory HP

http://www.istec.or.jp/

Senior Research, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Masaaki Maezawa

Dr., Physical Science Laboratory, NTT Basic Research Laboratories, NTT Corporatioin

Shiro Saito

Team Leader, RIKEN

Franco Nori

Educational Background

1987	Ph.D. in Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
1983	M.S. in Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
1982	Licenciado (i.e., B.S.) in Physics, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela

Professional Experience

90	Professor (first Assistant, then Associate, Full Professor and Research Scientist); Dept. of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
02	Laboratory Head of the Digital Materials Laboratory, Advanced Science Institute, RIKEN, Saitama, Japan.
87---89	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara.
82---87	Conicit Fellow and Graduate Research Assistant; Physics Department. Also at Materials Research Laboratory, and NCSA; University of Illinois.

Award

2007	Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), USA
2003	Elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IoP), UK
2002	Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), USA
1998	Received an "Excellence in Research Award" from the Univ. of Michigan
1997	Received an "Excellence in Education Award" from the Univ. of Michigan.

Research Topics

Nano-science. Condensed matter physics. Complex systems. Interface between mesoscopics, quantum optics, atomic physics, and nano-science.

superconducting qubits, quantum circuits using Josephson junctions, quantum information science, atomic-physics-like phenomena in quantum circuitry, quantum nano-electro-mechanical systems, coupling resonators and qubits, non-classical photon state generation from qubits, designing artificial atoms, micromasers from artificial atoms, cooling artificial atoms, decoherence/entanglement/scalability of quantum circuits, quantum simulators, adiabatic quantum computing, quantum intereferometry, quantum thermodynamics, biologically-inspired micro- and nano-devices for controlling the motion of tiny particles and quanta, vortex dynamics, superconductivity, design of tera-Hertz radiation sources/filters/detectors, metamaterials, quantum metamaterials, dynamical instabilities (avalanches), complex spatio-temporal nonlinear dynamics, transport phenomena (of electrons, phonons, vortices, grains) in systems that have disorder and/or reduced dimensionality, quantum noise control and squeezed states in condensed matter (squeezed phonons and supressed quantum fluctuations in superconductors), Josephson junction arrays and micro- and nano-networks, acoustic interference, path-integral analytical studies of quantum interference effects due to electron motion in magnetic fields. Bio-complexity. Charge transport in biophysics.

Laboratory HP

URL for the lab. http://dml.riken.jp/

Publications available online here

http://dml.riken.jp/publications.php

Publications in Refereed Journals

1986--: Over 300 publications (with over 7,500 citations; h-index: 43) in refereed journals: over 60 in Physical Review Letters, over 140 in Physical Review (A, B, E), 6 in Science, 9 in Nature journals, 2 in Reviews of Modern Physics, among others. Also, one in each of the following journals: Physics Today, Scientific American, Advances in Physics, Reports on Progress in Physics, and Physics Reports, among others.

Professor, National Institute of Informatics

Kae Nemoto

1993	M.S. from Electronic Engineering, Nagoya University
1973	B.S. from Electronic Engineering, Nagoya University

2001－Present	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
1993－2001	Electrotechnical Laboratory (currently National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)

March 1995	B.S. in Applied Physics from the University of Tokyo
March 1997	M.S. in Applied Physics from the University of Tokyo
March 2000	D.E. in Applied Physics from the University of Tokyo

2000-2001	Research associate, NTT Basic Research Laboratories
2002	Senior Research Associate, NTT Basic Research Laboratories
2003-Present	NTT Basic Research Laboratories
2005-2006	Guest Researcher, in Applied Physics at Delft University of Technology
2012-Present	Professor, Tokyo University of Science, Cooperation program between AIST and Graduate schools

March 1997-March 2000	Australian International Education Foundation (AIEF) Research Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Queensland. QLD, Australia
April 2000- Nov 2000	Research Fellow, Special Research Centre for Quantum Computer Technology, University of Queensland, QLD, Australia
May 2000-May 2003	Research Officer, School of Informatics, University of Wales, Bangor, UK
June 2003- March 2009	Associate Professor, National Institute of Informatics
April 2010- Present	Professor, National Institute of Informatics