Alexandre Blais

Alexandre Blais received his B.Sc. in 1997 and Ph.D. in 2003, both at the Université de Sherbrooke, Canada. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University, he returned to Sherbrooke as an associate professor in 2006. He is a member of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2008. His main research interests include superconducting qubits, quantum optics, and quantum computation.

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Filling a cavity with photons, and watching them leave

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Alexandre Blais and Jay M. Gambetta, Published December 8, 2008

quantum-info | optics

Preparing a harmonic oscillator in a state with a well-defined energy is a tricky business. With the new tools provided by cavity and circuit quantum electrodynamics it is now possible to make these pure quantum states and watch how they evolve in time.