Steven Girvin

About

Steven Girvin is the Sterling Professor of Physics at Yale University and a Professor of Applied Physics. He earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Princeton University in 1977, following his undergraduate studies at Bates College and a master's degree from the University of Maine. Girvin joined the Yale faculty in 2001 and has served as Yale’s Deputy Provost for Research from 2007 to 2017, overseeing strategic planning for research across Yale. From 2019 to 2021, he was the founding director of the Co-Design Center for Quantum Advantage, a national quantum information science research center funded by the Department of Energy. His research areas include condensed matter physics, with a focus on theoretical aspects, and he has made significant contributions to the development of quantum computing architectures, notably co-developing circuit QED with colleagues Michel Devoret and Robert Schoelkopf, which has become the industrial standard for superconducting quantum computers. Girvin is a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences. His work has been recognized with awards such as the Oliver E. Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society in 2007 and an honorary degree from Chalmers University of Technology in 2017.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Quantum mechanics
• Physics
• Statistical physics
• Software engineering
• Engineering physics
• Computational science
• Algorithm
• Engineering
• Systems engineering

Selected publications

• Quantum information processing and quantum optics with circuit quantum electrodynamics

  Nature Physics · 2020 · 418 citations

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• Real-time quantum error correction beyond break-even

  Nature · 2023 · 384 citations

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• Fast universal control of an oscillator with weak dispersive coupling to a qubit

  Nature Physics · 2022 · 164 citations

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• Building a Quantum Engineering Undergraduate Program

  IEEE Transactions on Education · 2022 · 106 citations

  <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Contribution:</i> A roadmap is provided for building a quantum engineering education program to satisfy U.S. national and international workforce needs. <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Background:</i> The rapidly growing quantum information science and engineering (QISE) industry will require both quantum-aware and quantum-proficient…

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• Constant-Depth Preparation of Matrix Product States with Adaptive Quantum Circuits

  PRX Quantum · 2024-09-04 · 45 citations

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  Adaptive quantum circuits, which combine local unitary gates, midcircuit measurements, and feedforward operations, have recently emerged as a promising avenue for efficient state preparation, particularly on near-term quantum devices limited to shallow-depth circuits. Matrix product states (MPS) comprise a significant class of many-body entangled states, efficiently describing the ground states of one-dimensional gapped local Hamiltonians and finding applications in a number of recent quantum al…

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Recent grants

• Condensed Matter Theory

  NSF · $540k · 2003–2007

• Condensed Matter Theory

  NSF · $570k · 2010–2014

• Condensed Matter Theory

  NSF · $660k · 2006–2010

Frequent coauthors

• Robert Schoelkopf

  132 shared

• Michel Devoret

  90 shared

• Luigi Frunzio

  Yale University

  82 shared

• A. H. MacDonald

  59 shared

• Liang Jiang

  University of Chicago

  49 shared

• Alexandre Blais

  40 shared

• Jay Gambetta

  IBM (United States)

  36 shared

• Matthew P. A. Fisher

  36 shared

Labs

• Yale Quantum InstitutePI

Awards & honors

• Oliver E. Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society (20…
• Honorary degree from Chalmers University of Technology (2017…
• Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
• Member of the US National Academy of Sciences

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