Sensing and simulation with superconducting circuits

Superconducting quantum circuits can be tailored to many interesting applications, utilizing their long coherence times and dynamical coupling properties. Experimentally, materials such as WSi_x, with high kinetic inductance, allow for dramatic shrinking of circuit dimensions and novel nonlinear performance as two-mode squeezing sources and amplifiers. Theoretically, within the limits of known coherence times, I will briefly present several realizable applications of superconducting qubit circuits, including sensing by algorithmic error detection and simulation of lattice gauge hamiltonians.