publications

2026

1. A Blueprint for Equilibrium-Based Differentiable Continuous-Variable Thermodynamic Computing

   Owen Lockwood, Jérémy Béjanin, Joost Bus, Christopher Chamberland, Patrick Huembeli, Frank Schäfer, and Guillaume Verdon

   2026

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   A blueprint for equilibrium-based, continuous-variable thermodynamic computing: Langevin dynamics with tunable potentials realize hardware-native energy-based models, composed as probabilistic graphical models and trained differentiably, with a preliminary superconducting-circuit demonstration.

   @misc{lockwood2026blueprint,
     title = {A Blueprint for Equilibrium-Based Differentiable Continuous-Variable Thermodynamic Computing},
     author = {Lockwood, Owen and B{\'e}janin, J{\'e}r{\'e}my and Bus, Joost and Chamberland, Christopher and Huembeli, Patrick and Sch{\"a}fer, Frank and Verdon, Guillaume},
     year = {2026},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     primaryclass = {cs.LG},
   }

2024

1. A mechanical qubit

   Yu Yang, Igor Kladarić, Maxwell Drimmer, Uwe Lüpke, Daniel Lenterman, Joost Bus, Stefano Marti, Matteo Fadel, and Yiwen Chu

   Science, 2024

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   Realization of a mechanical qubit using the anharmonicity provided by coupling a bulk acoustic wave resonator to a superconducting transmon.

   @article{yang2024mechanical,
     title = {A mechanical qubit},
     author = {Yang, Yu and Kladari{\'c}, Igor and Drimmer, Maxwell and von L{\"u}pke, Uwe and Lenterman, Daniel and Bus, Joost and Marti, Stefano and Fadel, Matteo and Chu, Yiwen},
     journal = {Science},
     volume = {386},
     number = {6723},
     pages = {783--788},
     year = {2024},
     publisher = {American Association for the Advancement of Science},
     doi = {10.1126/science.adr2464},
   }