Visit NEC Tsukuba
I reserved a day, my last day in Japan, to visit NEC Tsukuba, were Jaw-Shen Tsai, Yasunobu Nakamura, Yuri Pashkin and Oleg Astafiev do almost unbelivable things about quantum manipulation. Their (pioneering) works with qubits are well-known, now in addition to it they do nanomechanics, non-linear quantum optics with microwaves and always eager to talk about new things, like phase-slips etc.
I was trying to promote the phase-slips in my talk but they’ve already did some preliminary experiments and were dissappointed. Perhaps Oleg will be able to combat this feeling. Anyway, there were more than many discussion topics, and I’ve spent the whole day talking
We’ve rounded the day with a nice party: thanks so much, my hosts.
