Yvonne Gao

Yvonne earned her B.A in Physics from the University of Oxford and her doctorate from Yale University in the group of Professor Robert J. Schoelkopf. Her work focused on developing programmable interactions and robust operations between multiphoton quantum states encoded in superconducting cavities.

In 2019, Yvonne was named one of the Innovators Under 35 (Asia Pacific) by MIT Tech Review for her work in developing crucial building blocks for quantum computers. In March 2020, Yvonne joined the Centre for Quantum Technologies in the National University of Singapore as a Presidential Young Professor and a National Research Foundation (NRF) Fellow. She is starting a new research initiative to develop modular quantum devices using superconducting microwave circuits.

Current Research

My team works on building robust quantum hardware using superconducting microwave circuits. Our devices provide useful avenues to develop novel techniques for quantum information processing as well as to explore interesting effects in quantum physics.

Selected Publications

• Quantum information processing with bosonic qubits in circuit QED, A Joshi, K Noh, YY Gao, Quantum Science and Technology 6 (3), 033001
• Entanglement of bosonic modes through an engineered exchange interaction, YY Gao, BJ Lester, KS Chou, L Frunzio, MH Devoret, L Jiang, SM Girvin, et al., Nature 566 (7745), 509-512
• Deterministic teleportation of a quantum gate between two logical qubits, KS Chou, JZ Blumoff, CS Wang, PC Reinhold, CJ Axline, YY Gao, et al., Nature 561 (7723), 368-373
• Programmable interference between two microwave quantum memories, YY Gao, BJ Lester, Y Zhang, C Wang, S Rosenblum, L Frunzio, L Jiang, et al., Physical Review X 8 (2), 021073
• Efficient multiphoton sampling of molecular vibronic spectra on a superconducting bosonic processor, CS Wang, JC Curtis, BJ Lester, Y Zhang, YY Gao, J Freeze, VS Batista, et al., Physical Review X 10 (2), 021060
• A CNOT gate between multiphoton qubits encoded in two cavities, S Rosenblum, YY Gao, P Reinhold, C Wang, CJ Axline, L Frunzio, et al., Nature communications 9 (1), 1-6
• A Schrödinger cat living in two boxes, C Wang, YY Gao, P Reinhold, RW Heeres, N Ofek, K Chou, C Axline, et al., Science 352 (6289), 1087-1091

Companies

• Assistant Professor National University of Singapore (2020)
• Research Scientist A*STAR - Agency for Science, Technology and Research (2018 — 2020)
• Graduate Student Yale University (2012 — 2018)

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Yale University (2012 — 2018)
• Bachelor's degree University of Oxford (2008 — 2011)