Travis Hime's Minimally Useful Page

What's New

1/4/07: Added the Science paper to the publications list.
7/10/06: The address of my blog has changed: http://arcanegazebo.net.
6/20/06: Added May 30 PRB to publications.
3/28/06: Updated talks list.
8/17/05: Updated publications list.
5/1/05: Major update and rewrite.
2/22/04: Oh yeah, I have a minimally useful web page which is a year out of date. Now it is no longer out of date but still only minimally useful. I feel compelled to mention that the livejournal server mentioned in the previous update is now running Movable Type; you will probably find it more interesting than this page. (See below.)
2/3/03: I am now running a livejournal server on inverse, as an extension of a journaling experiment I began last month. Please ignore the many pages that still look like livejournal's site; I have yet to set up my own look.
1/27/03: Usual new-semester update.
9/16/02: Brought the academic information up to date.
6/28/02: Photos from Josh and Sharon's wedding are up!
6/11/02: Long-overdue, minor update.
1/22/02: Updated courses for Spring 2002 semester.
11/5/01: Finished yesterday's initial update. I may add some more later, like a formal list of links. I embedded most of the relevant ones in the text already though.
11/4/01: Yes, another complete rewrite of my page. Naturally, I have work I should be doing right now, so I go and make a new homepage from a blank slate. Don't expect updates very often... I probably won't make a habit of this.

Internet Presence

This page is intended as a minimalist source of information for the casual searcher. I contribute in one way or another to several other webpages:

I maintain a regularly updated weblog called Arcane Gazebo. You will likely find it more interesting than this page.
Information on music I listen to is compiled at my Audioscrobbler page.
Links I find interesting are listed at del.icio.us.
Some digital photography has been posted at Flickr.
I have a LiveJournal page, but its only use is to provide status updates when my primary weblog is down.
My Technorati profile provides a list of sites that link to me.

Bio

I was born in Houston, TX, and have lived there on and off over the years. A major portion of my childhood was spent in Great Falls, VA, which is in the Washington, D.C. metro area. I spent my adolescence in Connecticut and graduated from New Canaan High School in 1997. Subsequently I attended the California Institute of Technology, receiving a B.S. with Honors in physics in 2001. Currently I'm a graduate student in the physics department at UC Berkeley. After obtaining an M.A. in physics in 2003, I am now working on my Ph.D.

Academics

I am in my fourth year of graduate school.

Teaching

Fall 2001–Spring 2002: Graduate student instructor for the Basic Semiconductor Circuits section of Physics 111 (advanced undergraduate laboratory)

Spring 2005: GSI for Physics 141A (undergraduate solid state)

Research

I'm doing research in macroscopic quantum coherence in Professor John Clarke's research group.

Publications

Google Scholar search for "T. Hime" (may turn up preprints that aren't listed here)

Solid-State Qubits with Current-Controlled Coupling, T. Hime, P.A. Reichardt, B.L.T. Plourde, T.L. Robertson, C.-E. Wu, A.V. Ustinov, John Clarke, Science 314, 1427 (2006).

Quantum theory of three-junction flux qubit with non-negligible loop inductance: Towards scalability, T. L. Robertson, B. L. T. Plourde, P. A. Reichardt, T. Hime, C.-E. Wu, and John Clarke, Phys. Rev. B 76, 174526 (2006).

Flux qubits and readout device with two independent flux lines, B. L. T. Plourde, T. L. Robertson, P. A. Reichardt, T. Hime, S. Linzen, C.-E. Wu, and John Clarke, Phys. Rev. B 72, 060506 (2005).

Superconducting quantum interference device with frequency-dependent damping: Readout of flux qubits, T. L. Robertson, B. L. T. Plourde, T. Hime, S. Linzen, P. A. Reichardt, F. K. Wilhelm, and John Clarke, Phys. Rev. B, 72, 024513 (2005).

Entangling flux qubits with a bipolar dynamic inductance, B.L.T. Plourde, J. Zhang, K.B. Whaley, F.K. Wilhelm, T.L. Robertson, T. Hime, S. Linzen, P.A. Reichardt, C.-E. Wu, and John Clarke, Phys. Rev. B 70, 140501 (2004).

Low-noise computer-controlled current source for quantum coherence experiments, S. Linzen, T.L. Robertson, T. Hime, B.L.T. Plourde, P.A. Reichardt, and John Clarke, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 75, 2541 (2004).

Talks

Variable Coupling of Two Flux Qubits, APS March Meeting 2006 (Baltimore, Maryland, March 14, 2006) [Slides in a 0.5MB PDF]

Quantum Coherence in a Superconducting Flux Qubit, APS March Meeting 2005 (Los Angeles, California, March 25, 2005) [Slides in a 5MB PDF]

Back-action of RC-shunted SQUID on three-junction flux qubit, ARO QCPR 2004 (Orlando, Florida, August 18, 2004)

Back-action of RC-shunted SQUID on three-junction flux qubit, APS March Meeting 2004 (Montreal, Quebec, March 22, 2004)

Interests

Short version: Running, photography, indie rock, politics, film, sci-fi/fantasy, philosophy of science, pen-and-paper RPGs.

I write about my various interests in some detail at Arcane Gazebo.