CQuERE

Snehal Mandal

Assistant Professor

Dr. Snehal Mandal did his Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (under H.B.N.I.). During his doctoral studies, Dr. Mandal conducted research work in the field of magnetism in epitaxial thin films and heterostructures. At CQuERE, he joined as a Post Doctoral Fellow in 2022 in the superconducting quantum computing group where he started working on superconductivity in thin films, and quantum computing experiments using superconducting qubits and has been involved in the installation of a Dilution Refrigerator and subsequent development of the superconducting quantum computer (currently running on single superconducting qubit).

Research topics of interest: Superconductivity in thin films, Superconducting qubits, circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED), Josephson Junction fabrication, microwave engineering, gate-based quantum computing.

His current research interests are-

1. design, simulation and fabrication of superconducting quantum circuits and microwave engineering.
2. Development of superconducting qubits and resonators with alternate superconducting materials in order to fabricate good quality qubits that would facilitate a robust functioning of our superconducting quantum computer. He is engaged in research on current problems in the field of Superconducting Qubits, e.g., improvement of Qubit decoherence time from materials fabrication perspective.
3. Pulse level programming for microwave control and readout of superconducting qubits;
4. Gate-based quantum computing to implement quantum algorithms on our superconducting quantum computer with a multi-qubit processor (QPU).
5. Design multi-qubit processor to scale-up the number of qubits gradually to expedite the scalable superconducting quantum computer facility.
6. Quantum Error correction protocols and Noise mitigation in superconducting qubits. He is interested in Noise spectroscopy of superconducting qubits with various pulse protocols.
7. Designing qubits for annealing based quantum computer.

He also plans to develop a full-stack quantum computing facility at CQuERE.

He has active collaborations with various research groups from institutes like- TIFR Mumbai, SINP and SNBNCBS, Kolkata.

Apart from research, he enjoys playing table tennis and often spends time either cooking or playing the harmonica.

Reach out at snehal.mandal@tcgcrest.org