# Keith C. Schwab

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Keith C. Schwab

## Keith C. Schwab

##### Professor of Applied Physics

*B.A., University of Chicago, 1990; Ph.D., University of California, 1996. Associate Professor, Caltech, 2009-10; Professor, 2010-; Fletcher Jones Foundation Co-Director, Kavli Nanoscience Institute, 2013-15.*

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#### Research Overview

Professor Schwab's current focus is the development of Josephson junctions for superfluid helium-4 with the goal to build quantum devices such as interferometers and quantum bits from this material.  What makes this now possible are the advances in 2d nanometerials with nanometer pores.

Research Summary:
quantum-limited measurements, ultra-low temperature physics, superfluid physics, quantum devices and technology, nanotechnology, ultra-sensitive microwave measurement

[View more publications on feeds.library.caltech.edu](https://feeds.library.caltech.edu/people/Schwab-K-C/)

#### Related Courses

##### 2025-26

APh 114 abc – Solid-State Physics

##### 2022-23

APh 114 abc – Solid-State Physics