Wolfgang Pfaff

For More Information

• Pfaff Lab group website

Education

• PhD, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, 2013
• Diplom (MSc), University of Regensburg, Germany, 2009

Academic Positions

• Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020-present
• Postdoctoral Associate, Dept. of Applied Physics, Yale University, 2014-2017

Other Professional Employment

• Senior Researcher, Microsoft Quantum Lab Delft, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, 2019-2020
• Researcher, Microsoft Quantum Lab Delft, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, 2017-2019

Research Interests

• Distributed quantum computing
• Quantum networks
• Open quantum systems
• Superconducting quantum circuits
• Quantum information processing

Selected Articles in Journals

• D. de Jong, C. G. Prosko, D. M. A. Waardenburg, L. Han, F. K. Malinowski, P. Krogstrup, L. P. Kouwenhoven, J. V. Koski, and W. Pfaff, Rapid Microwave-Only Characterization and Readout of Quantum Dots Using Multiplexed Gigahertz-Frequency Resonators, Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 014007 (2021).
• C. J. Axline, L. D. Burkhart, W. Pfaff, M. Zhang, K. Chou, P. Campagne-Ibarcq, P. Reinhold, L. Frunzio, S. M. Girvin, L. Jiang, M. H. Devoret, and R. J. Schoelkopf. On-demand quantum state transfer and entanglement between remote microwave cavity memories, Nat. Phys. 14 (7), 705-710, 2018.
• W. Pfaff, C. J. Axline, L. D. Burkhart, U. Vool, P. Reinhold, L. Frunzio, L. Jiang, M. H. Devoret, and R. J. Schoelkopf, Controlled release of multiphoton quantum states from a microwave cavity memory, Nat. Phys., 13, (9), 882-887, 2017.
• M. Reagor, W. Pfaff, C. Axline, R. W. Heeres, N. Ofek, K. Sliwa, E. Holland, C. Wang, J. Blumoff, K. Chou, M. J. Hatridge, L. Frunzio, M. H. Devoret, L. Jiang, and R. J. Schoelkopf, Quantum memory with millisecond coherence in circuit QED, Phys. Rev. B, 94, (1), 014506, 2016.
• W. Pfaff, B. J. Hensen, H. Bernien, S. B. van Dam, M. S. Blok, T. H. Taminiau, M. J. Tiggelman, R. N. Schouten, M. Markham, D. J. Twitchen, and R. Hanson, Unconditional quantum teleportation between distant solid-state quantum bits, Science, 345, (6196), 532, 2014.
• H. Bernien, B. Hensen, W. Pfaff, G. Koolstra, M. S. Blok, L. Robledo, T. H. Taminiau, M. Markham, D. J. Twitchen, L. Childress, and R. Hanson, Heralded entanglement between solid-state qubits separated by three meters, Nature, 497, 86, 2013.