Alessandro Miano

Alessandro Miano

Affiliation
University of Naples "Federico II"

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I was born in Naples, Italy on January 21, 1992. After classical studies, I decided to study Electronics Engineering as I wanted to understand why my electrical guitar was able to produce sounds in many different ways. As a B.Sc student, I suddenly got very curious about the capabilities of electrical circuits to behave quantum-mechanically, so I chose an elective course in my final BSc year, “Fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics”: it was love at first sight. I got my M.Sc in Electronics Engineering from the University of Naples "Federico II" in May 2017, with a thesis on ferromagnetic Josephson junctions for cryogenic classical memories compatible with SFQ logic.  Then, I entered the field of superconducting quantum circuits during a 3 months summer internship in HYPRES  company in 2017, where I developed a versatile design of a superconducting Traveling Wave Parametric Amplifier, based on asymmetric rf-SQUID. In October 2017, I entered the Physics Ph.D. program at University of Naples "Federico II", where I continued to work on quantum circuits for parametric amplification, with a focus on the applications of efficient readout of superconducting qubits. During the last (third) year of my Ph.D., I was admitted as a Visiting Research Assistant in the Yale Applied Physics Department, where I developed and experimentally characterized a superconducting parametric amplifier with an independent, in-situ control of two Hamiltonian coefficients. I firmly believe that the enormous potential of superconducting quantum circuits for the implementation of the future quantum processors has to be exploited by introducing more complicated and sophisticated circuital solutions: as we are now in the ENIAC-era of quantum computing, the path to large-scale quantum processors will be plenty of exciting and challenging tasks!

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