The following topics will be addressed:
Superconductivity, Josephson junction, Josephson effect and SQUID
Quantization of a network of lumped-element electric components
Superconducting qubit: Cooper pair box, Transmon, Phase qubit, Flux qubit, Fluxonium and Xmon
Decoherence mechanisms
Parametric amplification
Cavity-qubit systems, Rabi model and Jaynes-Cummings model
Operation of superconducting qubits: single-qubit operation and 2-qubit gate
Qubit readout and dispersive measurement
Quantum simulation: photon mediated interaction, giant atom
Hybrid qubit systems: superconducting qubit couple to: semiconductor qubit, NV center, etc.