Circuit quantum electrodynamics

A Blais, AL Grimsmo, SM Girvin, A Wallraff - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021 - APS
Quantum-mechanical effects at the macroscopic level were first explored in Josephson-
junction-based superconducting circuits in the 1980s. In recent decades, the emergence of …

Building a fault-tolerant quantum computer using concatenated cat codes

C Chamberland, K Noh, P Arrangoiz-Arriola… - PRX Quantum, 2022 - APS
We present a comprehensive architectural analysis for a proposed fault-tolerant quantum
computer based on cat codes concatenated with outer quantum error-correcting codes. For …

Universal Josephson diode effect

M Davydova, S Prembabu, L Fu - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
We propose a universal mechanism for the Josephson diode effect in short Josephson
junctions. The proposed mechanism is due to finite Cooper pair momentum and is a …

Sign reversal of the Josephson inductance magnetochiral anisotropy and 0–π-like transitions in supercurrent diodes

A Costa, C Baumgartner, S Reinhardt, J Berger… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The recent discovery of the intrinsic supercurrent diode effect, and its prompt observation in
a rich variety of systems, has shown that non-reciprocal supercurrents naturally emerge …

Stabilization and operation of a Kerr-cat qubit

A Grimm, NE Frattini, S Puri, SO Mundhada, S Touzard… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Quantum superpositions of macroscopically distinct classical states—so-called Schrödinger
cat states—are a resource for quantum metrology, quantum communication and quantum …

Quantum information processing with bosonic qubits in circuit QED

A Joshi, K Noh, YY Gao - Quantum Science and Technology, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The unique features of quantum theory offer a powerful new paradigm for information
processing. Translating these mathematical abstractions into useful algorithms and …

Observation of pairwise level degeneracies and the quantum regime of the Arrhenius law in a double-well parametric oscillator

NE Frattini, RG Cortiñas, J Venkatraman, X **ao, Q Su… - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
By applying a microwave drive to a specially designed Josephson circuit, we have realized
a double-well model system: a Kerr oscillator submitted to a squeezing force. We have …

Nonreciprocal supercurrents in a field-free graphene Josephson triode

J Chiles, EG Arnault, CC Chen, TFQ Larson, L Zhao… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Superconducting diodes are proposed nonreciprocal circuit elements that should exhibit
nondissipative transport in one direction while being resistive in the opposite direction …

High-fidelity parametric beamsplitting with a parity-protected converter

Y Lu, A Maiti, JWO Garmon, S Ganjam, Y Zhang… - nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Fast, high-fidelity operations between microwave resonators are an important tool for
bosonic quantum computation and simulation with superconducting circuits. An attractive …

Fast generation of Schrödinger cat states using a Kerr-tunable superconducting resonator

XL He, Y Lu, DQ Bao, H Xue, WB Jiang, Z Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Schrödinger cat states, quantum superpositions of macroscopically distinct classical states,
are an important resource for quantum communication, quantum metrology and quantum …