Professor Andrew N. Cleland

Andrew pursues the experimental development of superconducting “qubits”, the leading candidates for building a quantum computer, and key elements for quantum sensing. In addition to focusing on the development of quantum circuits with the highest coherence and longest-lived entangled states, he has pursued the development of quantum acoustics, manipulating sound waves in the quantum limit.

Having demonstrated the first operation of a mechanical system in its quantum ground state, Andrew will use his time as a Fulbright Distinguished Chair to pursue the integration of superconducting qubits with other solid-state qubit families, linked by phonons, the quanta of sound.