@article{Topological:2093,
      recid = {2093},
      author = {Owens, John Claiborne},
      title = {Creating Quantum Topological Materials with 3D Microwave  Photons},
      publisher = {The University of Chicago},
      school = {Ph.D.},
      address = {2019-12},
      pages = {158},
      abstract = {The recent rapid advancement in the ability to create and  manipulate superconducting qubit systems has created an  exciting opportunity to construct quantum materials from  the ground up, artificial atom by atom. This thesis will  explore the creation of a new architecture of quantum  simulation in which we use the circuit quantum  electrodynamics toolbox to build quantum topological  materials that so far have proven difficult to understand  with theory, simulate with computational methods, and  realize/measure with other quantum systems. Specifically we  design a two-dimensional material in which microwave  photons living in a superconducting 3D microwave cavity  lattice interact strongly with a time-reversal symmetry  breaking magnetic field and with each other. This is the  first photonic topological lattice platform compatible with  strong interactions. The combination of these interactions  will enable the study of fractional quantum Hall systems,  where fractionally charged particles called anyons are  theorized to exist. This thesis describes how to engineer a  tunable, low loss microwave lattice, create a magnetic  field for chargeless photons using ferrite crystals, and  generate inter-particle interactions using Josephson  junction transmon qubits.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/2093},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.2093},
}