Engineered Dissipation as a Resource in Superconducting Circuits

In this talk, I review exciting experimental and theoretical developments in using dissipation in superconducting circuits as a productive resource instead of just an obstacle to be minimized. These include advances in rapid qubit reset operations, state stabilization and many-body physics simulation, quantum annealing, and quantum error correction. Here, engineered dissipation can be used to generate and stabilize a logical state manifold, or even autonomously correct errors. While dissipation in superconducting qubits contributes significantly to gate error and it remains an important problem, more broadly, its numerous beneficial applications may lead to it playing an important role in large-scale quantum devices down the road.