Super Smart Society Innovation A1: Frontiers in Quantum Technology

This is a series of lectures by lecturers from organizations of the SSS Promotion Consortium. Students learn about quantum sensing using spin defects and color centers in wide bandgap semiconductors, cutting-edge research on quantum computers, and AI related to mobility, especially focusing on image recognition, data analysis, and optimization technologies.

  • Class 1: Diamond nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center and its quantum sensing
         (Lecturer: Takeshi Oshima, QST)

  • Class 2: Spin defects/color centers in other wide bandgap semiconductors
         (Lecturer: Takeshi Oshima, QST)

  • Class 3: Creation of spin defects/color centers
         (Lecturer: Takeshi Oshima, QST)

  • Class 4: Overview of quantum computers
         (Lecturer: Masayuki Shirane, NEC System Platform Research Laboratories)

  • Class 5: NEC’s activities for superconducting quantum computers
         (Lecturer: Masayuki Shirane, NEC System Platform Research Laboratories)

  • Class 6: Quantum and simulated annealing theory and their applications
         (Lecturer: Masayuki Shirane, NEC System Platform Research Laboratories)

  • Class 7: AI Technology for Mobility Industry
         (Lecturer: Daisuke Kaji, Denso Corporation)