{"id":9921,"date":"2025-10-31T11:13:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/?p=9921"},"modified":"2025-10-31T11:13:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:13:02","slug":"ben-blain-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/2025\/10\/31\/ben-blain-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Blain Seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/person\/ben-blain-2\/\">Ben Blain<\/a> is planning his next visit to PQM from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tii.ae\/\">Technology Innovation Institute<\/a> in Abu Dhabi during the week of 10-14 November 2025. He will lead the PQM Discussion Group on 12\/11 with a talk on &#8220;Simulation of quantum solitons with superconducting qubits&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>Abstract:<\/p>\n<p>Superconducting qubit arrays offer the opportunity \u00a0to study the Bose-Hubbard model (BHm) in the regime of few excitations. In this talk, I will begin with an introduction to arrays of transmons for quantum simulation of the BHm. I will show that the lowest energy states of the system are given by superpositions of bright quantum solitons. I will discuss the characterisation of a spatially localised quantum soliton, and how their dynamics relate to the single-particle quantum random walk. Finally, I will present preliminary results for a protocol to experimentally prepare quantum solitons in superconducting circuits.<\/p>\n<p>We are looking forward to discussions during the visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Blain is planning his next visit to PQM from the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi during the week of 10-14 November 2025. He will lead the PQM Discussion Group on 12\/11 with a talk on &#8220;Simulation of quantum solitons with superconducting qubits&#8221;: Abstract: Superconducting qubit arrays offer the opportunity \u00a0to study the Bose-Hubbard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":8976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[681,607],"tags":[783,1058,703,1527,553],"class_list":["post-9921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-visitors","tag-quantum-computers","tag-quantum-information","tag-quantum-simulators","tag-superconducting-electronics","tag-superconductors"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9924,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9921\/revisions\/9924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}