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Yasunobu Nakamura

Yasunobu Nakamura

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Yasunobu Nakamura (中村 泰信 Nakamura Yasunobu) is a Japanese physicist. He is a professor at the University of Tokyo and the Principal Investigator of the Superconducting Quantum Electronics Research Team at the Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) within RIKEN. He has contributed to the area of quantum information science, particularly in superconducting quantum computing and hybrid quantum systems.

Early life

Yasunobu Nakamura obtained his Bachelor of Science (1990), Master of Science (1992), and Ph.D. (2011) degrees at the University of Tokyo. In 1999, as a researcher at NEC, Nakamura and collaborators Yuri Pashkin and Jaw-Shen Tsai "realized the first measurement of the Rabi oscillations associated with the transition between two Josephson levels in the Cooper pair box" in a configuration developed by Michel Devoret and colleagues in 1998.

In 2000, Nakamura was featured as a "Younger Scientist" in the Japan Society of Applied Physics for his work at NEC in "quantum-state control of nanoscale superconducting devices." In 2003, he was named one of MIT Technology Review's top innovators under 35 years old, in which editors noted that "Nakamura and a collaborator got two qubits to interact in a manner that had been predicted but never demonstrated" at the time.

Current work

As of 3 October 2016, the Japan Science and Technology Agency (科学技術振興機構) announced funding for Nakamura's work through their Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO) program. The project, entitled Macroscopic Quantum Machines, seeks to dramatically improve quantum state control technology to further the field of quantum computing. Of principal focus is the development of a highly scalable platform for implementing quantum information processing techniques, as well as the creation of a hybrid quantum system that interfaces with microwave quantum optics.

Nakamura has spoken several times at quantum information science conferences, including at the University of Vienna in 2014, the Institute for Theoretical Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics at Harvard University and the National Center of Competence in Research's Quantum Science and Technology Monte Verità conference in 2015, and at the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo in 2016.

Honors and awards

  • 1999 – Young Investigator Award, Japan Society of Applied Physics
  • 1999 – The 1st Sir Martin Wood Prize for Japan
  • 1999 – The 45th Nishina Memorial Prize
  • 2003 – TR100 (TR35), MIT Technology Review
  • 2004 – Agilent Technologies Europhysics Prize (with Michel Devoret, Daniel Esteve, and Hans Mooij)
  • 2008 – Simon Memorial Prize (with Jaw-Shen Tsai)
  • 2014 – The 11th Leo Esaki Prize (with Jaw-Shen Tsai)

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