Doctor of physics and mathematics, head of the Superconducting Metamaterials Laboratory, professor of experimental physics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, academic supervisor of the superconducting quantum circuits group (Russian Quantum Center).
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Research Interests
Low temperature physics, superconductivity, Josephson junctions, superconductor electronics, quantum coherence, quantum bits (qubits), quantum computer, quantum information processing.
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Physical sciences and astronomy.
Doctor of physics and mathematics, head of the Superconducting Metamaterials Laboratory, professor of experimental physics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, academic supervisor of the superconducting quantum circuits group (Russian Quantum Center)
Doctor of physics and mathematics, head of the Superconducting Metamaterials Laboratory, NUST MISIS.
2011 — present: head of the Superconducting Metamaterials Laboratory, NUST MISIS.
2011 — present: academic supervisor of the superconducting quantum circuits group, Russian Quantum Center.
2008 — present: professor, Physics Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
1995: doctor of physics and mathematics, Institute of Solid State Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).
1987: PhD in physics and mathematics, Institute of Solid State Physics, RAS.
1984: physics engineer majoring in automatics and electronics, Moscow University of Physics and Technology, diploma with honors.
Main Results of Scientific Work
Aleksey Ustinov is one of the most famous global experts on long Josephson transition lines and the physics of magnetic soliton waves — nonlinear waves in these structures. He devoted many years to the study of multilayer and discrete Josephson systems, his most cited works were published in these areas.
In 2000, Ustinov’s group discovered internal localized modes (discrete breathers) in arrays of Josephson contacts. In 2003, his group published in Nature a report about tunneling of Josephson vortex — the largest quantum object detected as of today.
In recent years, the major emphasis of his research has been on superconducting qubits. A remarkable achievement of Ustinov’s group was the demonstration in 2009 of extremely fast (the fastest reported to date) manipulation of superconducting qubit reaching 30 GHz frequency of coherent oscillations. Ustinov and his group investigated quantum-coherent dynamics of superconducting phase qubits, flux
qubits and transmons.
In 2011, the group led by Aleksey Ustinov for the first time demonstrates the frequency domain multiplexing readout of superconducting qubits (7 qubits were read out via a single measurement line) — a crucial step towards scalable quantum architecture, which is now followed by the leading global research groups.
His more recent works include, e.g., coherent manipulation of microscopic two-level defects in superconducting qubits, demonstration of a readout of qubit using a propagating fluxon, the first implementation of a quantum metamaterial using superconducting qubits.
The recent work includes qubit metamaterials consisting of both transmon and flux qubits, a circuit based on a fluxonium qubit with superinductance made of granular aluminum.
Awards
- 1989: Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (Germany).
- 1998: Stefanos Pnevmatikos International Award for Research in Nonlinear Science.
- 2011: Megagrant of the Government of the Russian Federation.
- 2015: “Snob. Made in Russia” award in the nomination “Science and Technology” for the creation of the first superconducting qubit in Russia.
- 2017: Google Faculty Research Award 2017 in the nomination “Quantum Computing”.
Scopus Hirsch Index — 43.
Number of articles on Scopus — 345.
SPIN RSCI:
ORCID: 0000-0002-1202-1787.
ResearcherID: J-4663-2015.
Scopus AuthorID: 22995725800.
Significant Research Projects, Grants
- “Superconducting metamaterials”, Megagrant of the Government of the Russian Federation, Decree No. 220,
2011-2015. - “Creation of information processing technology based on superconducting qubits”, project “Liman”, Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects, State Corporation “Rosatom”, Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation,
2016-2019. - “Quantum metamaterials composed of superconducting qubits”, grant from the Russian Science Foundation No.
16-12-00095 as part of the activity “Fundamental scientific and exploratory research in priority thematic areas”,2016-2018, extended for2019-2020. - “Superconducting technologies for quantum information processing”, grant from the Russian Science Foundation No.
21-72-30026 as part of the activity “Research by the world-class scientific laboratories in implementing top priorities of academic and technological development of the Russian Federation” under the Presidential research project program,2021-2024. - Supervisor of 14 projects of the German Science Foundation (DFG), recipient of 8 research grants of European programs, 4 grants of the German Ministry of Science and Education (BMBF), 6 grants of the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education as part of the NUST MISIS competitiveness enhancement program.
Significant publications
- P. Winkel, K. Borisov, L. Grünhaupt, D. Rieger, M. Spiecker, F. Valenti, A. V. Ustinov, W. Wernsdorfer, and I. M. Pop. Implementation of a transmon qubit using superconducting granular aluminum. Physical Review X 10, 031032 (2020). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.10.031032.
- L. Grünhaupt, M. Spiecker, D. Gusenkova, N. Maleeva, S. T. Skacel, I. Takmakov, F. Valenti, P. Winkel, H. Rotzinger, A. V. Ustinov, and I. M. Pop. Granular aluminium as a superconducting material for high-impedance quantum circuits. Nature Materials 18, 816 — 819 (2019). DOI: 10.1038/s41563-019-0350-3.
- K. V. Shulga, E. Ilichev, M. V. Fistul, I. S. Besedin, S. Butz, O. V. Astaev, U. Huebner, and A. V. Ustinov. Magnetically induced transparency of a quantum metamaterial composed of twin flux qubits. Nature Communications 9, 150 (2018). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-02608-8.
- S. E. de Graaf, S. T. Skacel, T. Hoenigl-Decrinis, R. Shaikhaidarov, H. Rotzinger, S. Linzen, M. Ziegler, U. Huebner, H.-G. Meyer, V. Antonov, E. Ilichev, A. V. Ustinov, A. Ya. Tzalenchuk, and O. V. Astafiev. Charge quantum interference device. Nature Physics 14, 590 — 594 (2018). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-018-0097-9.
- P. Jung, S. Butz, M. Marthaler, M.V. Fistul, J. Leppakangas, V.P. Koshelets and A.V. Ustinov. Multistability and switching in a superconducting metamaterial. Nature Communications 5, 3730 (2014). DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4730.
- P. Macha, G. Oelsner, J.-M. Reiner, M. Marthaler, S. Andre, G. Schoen, U. Huebner, H.-G. Meyer, E. Ilichev and A. V. Ustinov. Implementation of a quantum metamaterial using superconducting qubits. Nature Communications 5, 5146 (2014). DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6146.
- G. J. Grabovskij, T. Peichel, J. Lisenfeld, G. Weiss, and A. V. Ustinov. Strain tuning of individual atomic tunneling systems detected by a superconducting qubit. Science 338, 232 — 234 (2012). DOI: 10.1126/science.1226487.
- A. K. Feofanov, V. A. Oboznov, V. V. Bol’ginov, J. Lisenfeld, S. Poletto, V. V. Ryazanov, A. N. Rossolenko, M. Khabipov, D.Balashov, A. B. Zorin, P. N. Dmitriev, V. P. Koshelets, and A. V. Ustinov. Implementation of superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor π-shifters in superconducting digital and quantum circuits. Nature Physics 6, 593 — 597 (2010). DOI: 10.1038/nphys1700.
- T. Hime, P. A. Reichardt, B. L. T. Plourde, T. L. Robertson, C.-E. Wu, A. V. Ustinov, and J. Clarke. Solid-state qubits with current-controlled coupling. Science 314, 1427 — 1429 (2006). DOI: 10.1126/science.1134388.
- A. Wallraff, A. Lukashenko, J. Lisenfeld, A. Kemp, M. V. Fistul, Y. Koval, and A. V. Ustinov. Quantum dynamics of a single vortex. Nature 425, 155 — 158 (2003). DOI: 10.1038/nature01826.
Significant Patents
- Reinforcing superconducting metamaterial. Authors: S.V. Shitov, S.V. Eismont, A.V. Ustinov. Patent No. RU 2 579 813 C1, priority date: December 30, 2014, Russia.
- Shaped Josephson junction qubits. Authoris: Aleksey V. Ustinov, Andreas Walraff, Yu Koval. Patent No.: US 6 627 915 B1, priority date: September 30, 2003, USA.
- Fluxon injection into annular Josephson junctions. Authors: Aleksey V. Ustinov. Patent No.: US 2002/0177529 A1, priority date: November 28, 2002, USA.
Scientific supervision and teaching
Supervised 37 PhD theses and over 40 diploma papers in the field of low temperature physics, nonlinear waves, superconducting electronics and physics of nanostructures.
Teaching
- Lecture courses in superconductivity, solid state physics and solid state quantum information processing for students of the Karsruhe Institute of Technology (2008 — present).
- Lecture course “Quantum information processing using superconducting circuits” for students of the Moscow State University and MIPT (2012).
- Lecture course “Introduction to modern quantum technologies” for students of NUST MISIS and MIPT (2019 — present).
- Co-editor of the English edition of the textbook by V. V. Schmidt “The Physics of Superconductors”.
Scientific and social activities
Expert on projects and programs of the German Science Foundation (DFG), FP6 и FP7 EU programs, national research programs of the USA, Finland, Israel, Belgium, Sweden.
Peer-reviewer of the leading international scientific journals of physics and electronics, including Science, Nature, Nature Physics, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review, Europhysics Letters, Applied Physics Letters, etc.
