Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Advisor: Matthew Yankowitz
Quantum computing holds incredible potential for the future of clean energy. Current quantum computers rely on qubits that are riddled with decoherence caused by external interference. A solution has been proposed in topological qubits (TQs), which contain built-in error correction. However, these have not yet been definitively realized. One extremely promising candidate for TQs is rhombohedral graphene (RG) which has lately taken the condensed-matter community by storm due to its propensity to host superconductivity and other topologically non-trivial energy states, as well as their remarkable reproducibility across devices. My research as a third-year PhD in the Yankowitz group will focus on incorporating RG in Josephson junctions (JJs), a device schematic already utilized in functional superconducting quantum computers.