A central challenge of modern quantum science is manipulating and understanding the behavior of strongly correlated matter. Analog quantum simulators are a promising technology for tackling such a problem, by recreating the physics of interest in a pristine quantum machine, composed of many interacting particles, whose parameters can be dynamically tuned and whose microscopic properties can be probed efficiently.

The Vrajitoarea lab explores science at the interface of condensed matter, quantum information, and quantum optics. We build synthetic quantum materials from strongly interacting microwave photons using the experimental toolbox of superconducting quantum circuits. Harnessing the coherent quantum control and flexibility of the superconducting circuit platform we can explore many-body phenomena and novel states of matter with photons, assemble entangled many-body states for quantum information processing, and leverage the complex dynamics in these interacting quantum systems to accelerate tasks in neuromorphic computing.