Jerry M. Chow is a

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate caus ...

who conducts research in quantum information processing. He has worked as the manager of the Experimental Quantum Computing group at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York since 2014 and is the primary investigator of the IBM team for the IARPA ''Multi-Qubit Coherent Operations'' and ''Logical Qubits'' programs. After graduating

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with a B.A. in physics and

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in applied mathematics from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

, he went on to earn his

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in 2010 under

Robert J. Schoelkopf Robert J. Schoelkopf III (born January 24, 1964) is an American physicist, most noted for his work on quantum computing as one of the inventors of superconducting qubits. Schoelkopf's main research areas are quantum transport, single-electron d ...

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

. While at Yale, he participated in experiments in which

superconducting qubits Superconducting quantum computing is a branch of solid state quantum computing which implements superconducting electronic circuits using superconducting qubits as artificial atoms, or quantum dots. For superconducting qubits, the two logic states ...

were coupled via a

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bus for the first time and two- qubit algorithms were executed on a superconducting quantum processor. His work at IBM has led to the publication of findings related to the characterization of a universal set of all-

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gates that can be executed on two

transmon In quantum computing, and more specifically in superconducting quantum computing, a transmon is a type of superconducting charge qubit that was designed to have reduced sensitivity to charge noise. The transmon was developed by Robert J. Schoelko ...

qubits, as well as the implementation of a subsection of a

surface code The toric code is a topological quantum error correcting code, and an example of a stabilizer code, defined on a two-dimensional spin lattice. It is the simplest and most well studied of the quantum double models. It is also the simplest example o ...

fault-tolerant Fault tolerance is the property that enables a system to continue operating properly in the event of the failure of one or more faults within some of its components. If its operating quality decreases at all, the decrease is proportional to the ...

superconducting quantum computing architecture. His leadership at IBM has led to progress being made in

quantum error correction Quantum error correction (QEC) is used in quantum computing to protect quantum information from errors due to decoherence and other quantum noise. Quantum error correction is theorised as essential to achieve fault tolerant quantum computing that ...

and

quantum machine learning Quantum machine learning is the integration of quantum algorithms within machine learning programs. The most common use of the term refers to machine learning algorithms for the analysis of classical data executed on a quantum computer, i.e. quan ...

, as well as the release of the

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-based IBM Quantum Experience. He was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2021.

Personal life

Jerry grew up in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Patents

References

External links

Jerry M. Chow on Google Scholar
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