Emerging Superconducting Technologies for Quantum Sensing and Computing

Jun 22, 2026, 8:00 AM → Jul 3, 2026, 10:00 PM Europe/Rome

Aula Leonardi (ECT* - Villa Tambosi)

Andrea Giachero, Emanuele Enrico, Federica Mantegazzini, Gheorghe-Sorin Paraoanu, Nicolas Roch

Superconducting quantum devices are poised to play a central role in the near future of both sensing and computing. Their unique properties—such as low dissipation, high coherence, and compatibility with scalable fabrication—make them ideal platforms for quantum technologies.
From quantum computers capable of solving classically intractable problems to ultra-sensitive sensors for detecting minute magnetic fields or single photons, superconducting circuits are at the heart of the quantum revolution.
The school Emerging Superconducting Technologies for Quantum Sensing and Computing offers an in-depth exploration of these rapidly advancing technologies. Participants will engage with leading experts to learn about superconducting qubits, parametric amplifiers, and quantum circuits more broadly, approaching the topics from both theoretical and experimental perspectives.
Key goals of the school are to highlight the synergy between quantum sensing and computing—two fields that share common tools and physical principles—and to showcase their applications across a wide range of domains, from particle physics to nuclear physics, as well as condensed matter physics, quantum chemistry, and materials science. By fostering dialogue across disciplines, the event enables students to gain a broad and coherent understanding of the landscape, preparing them to contribute to future breakthroughs in quantum science and engineering.

Confirmed lecturers include:

Joe Aumentado (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)

Ofer Naaman (Google Quantum AI, USA)

Anja Metelmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

Quentin Ficheux (Institut Néel – National Center for Scientific Research, France)

Takis Kontos (CNRS / École Normale Supérieure, France)

Ioan Pop (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

Silvia Zorzetti (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory / Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center, USA)

Sophia Economou (Virginia Tech, USA)

Sofia Quaglioni (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)

 

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Drive DTP 2026

DTP2026_Poster_03.04.2026.pdf

Poster_DTP_Seminars.pdf

Mon, June 22

1 Registration

ECT-introDTP-2026.pptx

2 Welcome and introduction

20260622_ECT__DTP_MiSS.pptx

ECT-introDTP-2026.pptx

10:30 AM Coffee break

3 Parametric Mixing & Amplifiers

Speaker: Anja Metelmann (KIT)

12:30 PM Lunch

4 Seminar - Nuclear dynamics on digital quantum computers

Alessandro Roggero is a theoretical physicist interested in nuclear physics, neutrino physics and many-body methods to tackle simulations in these fields using both classical HPC resources as well as quantum computing. After graduating in Physics at the University of Trento, Alessandro held postdoc positions at the Institute of Nuclear Theory in Seattle and the Los Alamos National Laboratori, was then an INT Fellow and Research Assistant Professor and the University of Washington and joined the University of Trento in 2021 where he is now Associate Professor.

Speaker: Alessandro Roggero (Department of Physics, University of Trento)

slides_roggero_ECT.pdf

5 Seminar - Quantum computers for solving hard optimization and sampling problems: from soft-matter applications to quantum magic

Philipp Hauke’s research focuses on developing the theoretical basis for novel quantum technologies in cold atoms, trapped ions, and superconducting qubits, combining methods and concepts from quantum information, many-body theory, and AMO physics. He works on novel quantum algorithms, the characterization of quantum effects such as entanglement in many-body systems, and quantum simulations of strongly-correlated systems such as gauge theories and holographic matter.

Philipp Hauke studied Physics at TU Munich and EPF Lausanne. He received his PhD in 2013 from ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels, Barcelona. Afterwards, he was postdoctoral fellow and university assistant at the University of Innsbruck and group leader at Heidelberg University. In 2018, he received an ERC Starting grant. In 2019, he became Associate Professor at the Pitaevskii BEC Center and the Physics Department of University of Trento, where he became Full Professor in 2023.

Speaker: Philipp Hauke (Pitaevskii BEC Center & INFN-TIFPA, University of Trento, Q@TN)

3:30 PM Break

6 Introduction to Superconducting Qubits

Speaker: Quentin Ficheux (CNRS/Institut Néel)

5:30 PM Social events: Welcome aperitif

Tue, June 23

7 Introduction to Superconducting Qubits

Speaker: Quentin Ficheux (CNRS/Institut Néel)

10:30 AM Coffee break

8 Fabrication, Materials and Decoherence

Speaker: Ioan Pop (KIT - Germany)

12:30 PM Lunch

9 Parametric Mixing & Amplifiers

Speaker: Anja Metelmann (KIT - Germany)

4:00 PM Break

10 Discussion and exercises

Wed, June 24

11 Parametric Mixing & Amplifiers

Speaker: Anja Metelmann (KIT)

10:30 AM Coffee break

12 Introduction to Superconducting Qubits

Speaker: Quentin Ficheux (CNRS/Institut Néel)

12:30 PM Lunch

13 Visit to the FBK-SD laboratories: Clean Room and Cryogenic Laboratory

The Clean Room and the Cryogenic Laboratory are two interconnected research facilities at the Sensors & Devices (FBK-SD) Center i

Thu, June 25

14 Intro to Superconducting Qubits

Speaker: Quentin Ficheux (CNRS/Institut Néel)

10:30 AM Coffee break

15 Circuit QED & Characterization

Superconducting quantum computing - quantum electrodynamics, qubit characterization and testing

Speaker: Silvia Zorzetti (FNAL)

12:30 PM Lunch

16 Seminar - Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics with Semiconductor Quantum Dots

Gianluca Rastelli is a theoretical physicist working at the Pitaevskii Center for Bose–Einstein Condensation as a Senior Researcher at the Italian National Research Council (CNR) since 2020. His research interests focus on quantum mesoscopic systems, with particular emphasis on quantum nanoscale devices, superconducting Josephson circuits, nanomechanical systems, and levitated systems. After obtaining his Master's degree and Ph.D. at the University of L'Aquila, Italy, he was appointed as a CNRS researcher in Grenoble, France, where he worked for five years. He then joined the University of Konstanz, Germany, where he served as a Senior Researcher and research group leader for eight years.

Speaker: Gianluca Rastelli (Pitaevskii BEC Center, CNR-INO and Dipartimento di Fisica, Trento)

17 Seminar - Microwave photonics with high kinetic inductance waveguides

Federica Mantegazzini is an experimental physicist coordinating the SQD – Superconducting Quantum Devices Research Unit at FBK, focused on the development of superconducting quantum devices, both for fundamental physics experiments and quantum applications. She is also INFN Research Fellow and lecturer at University of Trento. Her scientific interests cover multiple areas, from cQED, microwave quantum optics and quantum sensing to cryogenic detectors and neutrino physics.

Speaker: Federica Mantegazzini (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)

3:30 PM Break

18 Seminar - Hybrid quantum simulations of nuclear reactions with realistic potentials

Director of the national INFN center TIFPA (Trento Institute of Fundamental Physics and Applications)
Visiting scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (USA)
Development of Quantum Algorithms on Circuit-QED based devices, with a special focus on application to nuclear physics problems.
Many-body theories of i fermionic and bosonic systems, and in particular:
Development of algorithms for Quantum Monte Carlo calculations for nuclei, nuclear and neutron matter (with focus on astrophysical applications);
Systematics of the nuclear forces from QCD;
Electron gas in reduced dimensionality, (quantum wires and quantum dots) and quantum chemistry.
General techniques for the solution of the ”sign problem” in Monte Carlo methods for many fermions systems.

Speaker: Francesco Pederiva (University of Trento and INFN-TIFPA)

19 Fabrication, Materials and Decoherence

Speaker: Ioan Pop (KIT)

Fri, June 26

20 Circuit QED & Characterization

Superconducting quantum computing - quantum electrodynamics, qubit characterization and testing

Speaker: Silvia Zorzetti (FNAL)

10:30 AM Coffee break

21 Circuit QED & Characterization

Superconducting quantum computing - quantum electrodynamics, qubit characterization and testing

Speaker: Silvia Zorzetti (FNAL)

12:30 PM Lunch

Mon, June 29

22 Quantum sensing for fundamental physics

Speaker: Takis Kontos (CNRS/ENS Paris)

10:30 AM Coffee break

23 Intro to QC and QML

Speaker: Sophia Economou (VT)

12:30 PM Lunch

24 Intro to Parametric Coupled Mode Theory

Speaker: Jose Aumentado (NIST)

4:00 PM Break

25 Intro to QC and QML

Speaker: Sophia Economou (VT)

Tue, June 30

26 Quantum sensing for fundamental physics

Speaker: Takis Kontos (CNRS/ENS Paris)

10:30 AM Coffee break

27 Intro to QC and QML

Speaker: Sophia Economou (VT)

12:30 PM Lunch

28 Intro to Parametric Coupled Mode Theory

Speaker: Jose Aumentado (NIST)

4:00 PM Break

29 Intro to Parametric Coupled Mode Theory

Speaker: Jose Aumentado (NIST)

Wed, July 1

30 Microwave Engineering of Superconducting Devices

Speaker: Ofer Naaman (Google AI)

10:30 AM Coffee break

31 Intro to Parametric Coupled Mode Theory

Speaker: Jose Aumentado (NIST)

12:30 PM Lunch

32 Microwave Engineering of Superconducting Devices

Speaker: Ofer Naaman (Google AI)

4:00 PM Break

33 QC for Nuclear Physics

Speaker: Sofia Quaglioni (LLNL)

Thu, July 2

34 Microwave Engineering of Superconducting Devices

Speaker: Ofer Naaman (Google AI)

10:30 AM Coffee break

35 QC for Nuclear Physics

Speaker: Sofia Quaglioni (LLNL)

12:30 PM Lunch

36 Microwave Engineering of Superconducting Devices

Speaker: Ofer Naaman (Google AI)

4:00 PM Break

37 Discussion and exercises

5:30 PM Social event: Farewell apertif

Fri, July 3

38 Seminar - Superconducting circuits as a platform for strongly interacting fluids of microwave photons

Iacopo Carusotto completed his Ph.D. in 2000 at Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy, and then carried out postdoctoral work at Kastler-Brossel Laboratory of École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Since 2003, he has been a researcher at the INO-CNR BEC Center in Trento, Italy. He has been an associated researcher for CNRS in France and a visiting professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. His primary scientific interests include quantum fluids of light (from superfluid light to strongly correlated photon gases), topological photonics and physics, and the study of analogs of gravitational phenomena in atomic and optical systems.

Speaker: Iacopo Carusotto (INO-CNR BEC Center, Trento)

39 Seminar - Levitated magnetomechanics with superconducting circuits

Andrea Vinante is Senior Researcher at Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie of CNR, Unit of Trento. He got PhD in Physics in Trento and had several postdoc positions, among others in Leiden and in Southampton. His activity is focused on superconducting quantum technologies and micromechanical systems, with recent emphasis on magnetolevitated systems, both for sensing applications and for investigations in fundamental and quantum physics.

Speaker: Andrea Vinante (Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie (IFN-CNR), Trento, Italy)

10:30 AM Coffee break

40 Final discussion

12:30 PM Lunch