In the SteeleLab, we study Quantum Circuits and Mechanics: superconducting quantum circuits and mechanical resonators.
The circuits we build and explore are superconducting microwave cicuits made from capacitors, inductors, and Josephson junctions, borrowing from, exploring, and explanding the toolbox of Circuit QED.
The mechanical resonators we study are nano- and micro-mechanical resonators that we make by using advanced techniques in the cleanroom to enable parts of our chip to vibrate mechanically with high quality factors. We probe and control the mechanical resonators through an electromechanial analogue of cavity optomechanics using superconducting microwave resonators.
Our ultimate goal is to merge these two technologies and use superconducting quantum technologies to create and measure macroscopic quantum superpositions of massive objects to experimentally probe the interaction of Gravity and Quantum Mechanics. For more information, see the Research page on our website.
We are located at Delft University of Technology. We are part of the Department of Quantum Nanoscience, as well as the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience.
