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Michael Hatridge

University of Pittsburgh
Physics
Education
Ph.D., University of California Berkeley, 2010
Profile

Michael Hatridge is an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Pittsburgh. He received his B.S. from Texas A&M University and Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley under the supervision of John Clarke. He was a postdoctoral associate at Yale University, working with Michel Devoret on topics including quantum measurement, parametric amplification, and bath engineering. His current work focuses on the use of parametric drives to generate quantum controls, including single- and multi-qubit gates and engineered baths, and quantum circuits, including quantum-limited parametric amplifiers and modular quantum computers. He is a recipient of the Michelson Postdoctoral Prize Lectureship, the NSF CAREER Award, the Sloan Research Fellowship, and the 2021 U. Pittsburgh Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award.

Research

Quantum information is a rapidly growing theoretical and experimental field which seeks to harness the complexity and coherence of quantum bits to address challenges in computation and the simulation of complex quantum systems.  My research focuses on the use of superconducting microwave circuits as a quantum information platform.  In particular, we will focus on the use of microwave photons as quantum information carriers.  We will develop techniques to create, manipulate, and measure microwave light and use it to entangle larger quantum systems.
Efficient amplification of microwave signals is fundamental to this research, as it allows us to faithfully decode and record information contained in pulses of microwave light.  We will develop superconducting parametric amplifiers with the goal of achieving performance very close to the quantum limit, where the amplifier itself can perform unitary operations on its input fields.  This allows us to create new and complex measurement operations, which in turn will be used to entangle remote quantum bits and detect and remedy errors in quantum registers.

Students

Title Position Email
Edan Alpern Undergraduate Student Edan_A@pitt.edu
Anil Bilgin Undergraduate Student
Erick Brindock Undergraduate Student esb43@pitt.edu
Xi Cao Graduate Student xic71@pitt.edu
Tzu-Chiao Chien Graduate Student tzc7@pitt.edu
Ryan Kaufman Graduate Student rrk26@pitt.edu
Olivia Lanes Graduate Student Otl1@pitt.edu
Gangqiang Liu Postdoctoral Fellow gal24@pitt.edu
Pinlei Lu Graduate Student pil9@pitt.edu
Sarah Motz Undergraduate Student sam359@pitt.edu
Maria Mucci Graduate Student mmm242@pitt.edu
Param Patel Graduate Student pip53@pitt.edu
Chung Wa Shum chs357@pitt.edu
Mingkang Xia Graduate Student mix20@pitt.edu
Chao Zhou Graduate Student chz78@pitt.edu
Most Cited Publications

"Autonomously stabilized entanglement between two superconducting quantum bits," Shyam Shankar, Michael Hatridge, Zaki Leghtas, K. M. Sliwa, Aniruth Narla, Uri Vool, Steven M. Girvin, Luigi Frunzio, Mazyar Mirrahimi, Michel H. Devoret. Nature 504, no. 7480 (2013): 419.
"Dispersive magnetometry with a quantoum limited SQUID parametric amplifier," Hatridge, M., Vijay, R., Slichter, D.H., Clarke, J., Siddiqi, I., Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 83, no. 13 (2011)
 "SQUID-detected magnetic resonance imaging in microtesla fields," John Clarke, Michael Hatridge, Michael Mößle.  Annu. Rev. Biomed. Eng. 9 (2007): 389-413.
"Quantum back-action of an individual variable-strength measurement," Michael Hatridge, Shyam Shankar, Mazyar Mirrahimi, F. Schackert, K. Geerlings, T. Brecht, K. M. Sliwa, Science 339, no. 6116 (2013): 178-181.
"Confining the state of light to a quantum manifold by engineered two-photon loss," Zaki Leghtas, Steven Touzard, Ioan M. Pop, Angela Kou, Brian Vlastakis, Andrei Petrenko, Katrina M. Sliwa.  Science 347, no. 6224 (2015): 853-857.

Recent Publications

"Braiding Quantum Circuit Based on the 4Pi Josephson Effect." John P.T. Stenger, Michael Hatridge, Sergey M. Frolov, and David Pekker, Phys. Rev. B 99, 035307 (2019)

"Simultaneous Monitoring of Fluxonium Qubits in a Eaveguide."     Kou, A., Smith, W.C., Vool, U., (...), Frunzio, L., Devoret, M.H. Physical Review Applied 9(6), 064022 (2018).

"Braidonium: a braiding quantum circuit based on the 4π Josephson effect," John P. T. Stenger, Michael Hatridge, Sergey M. Frolov, David Pekker, arXiv:1808.03309v1

"Josephson parametric converter saturation and higher order effects," G. Liu, T.-C. Chien, X. Cao, O. Lanes, E. Alpern, D. Pekker, and M. Hatridge, arXiv:1703.04425, (2017)

"Robust concurrent remote entanglement between two superconducting qubits," Narla, S. Shankar, M. Hatridge, Z. Leghtas, K. M. Sliwa, E. Zalys-Geller, S. O. Mundhada, W. Pfaff, L. Frunzio, R. J. Schoelkopf, M. H. Devoret, arXiv:1603.03742 (2016)