Towards understanding two-level-systems in amorphous solids: insights from quantum circuits

C Müller, JH Cole, J Lisenfeld - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Amorphous solids show surprisingly universal behaviour at low temperatures. The
prevailing wisdom is that this can be explained by the existence of two-state defects within …

Fluctuations of energy-relaxation times in superconducting qubits

PV Klimov, J Kelly, Z Chen, M Neeley, A Megrant… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
Superconducting qubits are an attractive platform for quantum computing since they have
demonstrated high-fidelity quantum gates and extensibility to modest system sizes …

Correlating decoherence in transmon qubits: Low frequency noise by single fluctuators

S Schlör, J Lisenfeld, C Müller, A Bilmes, A Schneider… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
We report on long-term measurements of a highly coherent, nontunable superconducting
transmon qubit, revealing low-frequency burst noise in coherence times and qubit transition …

Phonon engineering of atomic-scale defects in superconducting quantum circuits

M Chen, JC Owens, H Putterman, M Schäfer… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Noise within solid-state systems at low temperatures can typically be traced back to material
defects. In amorphous materials, these defects are broadly described by the tunneling two …

Two-level system hyperpolarization using a quantum Szilard engine

M Spiecker, P Paluch, N Gosling, N Drucker… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
The innate complexity of solid-state physics exposes superconducting quantum circuits to
interactions with uncontrolled degrees of freedom degrading their coherence. By …

Electric field spectroscopy of material defects in transmon qubits

J Lisenfeld, A Bilmes, A Megrant, R Barends… - npj Quantum …, 2019 - nature.com
Superconducting integrated circuits have demonstrated a tremendous potential to realize
integrated quantum computing processors. However, the downside of the solid-state …

Two-level systems in superconducting quantum devices due to trapped quasiparticles

SE De Graaf, L Faoro, LB Ioffe, S Mahashabde… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
A major issue for the implementation of large-scale superconducting quantum circuits is the
interaction with interfacial two-level system (TLS) defects that lead to qubit parameter …

Bidirectional interconversion of microwave and light with thin-film lithium niobate

Y Xu, AA Sayem, L Fan, CL Zou, S Wang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Superconducting cavity electro-optics presents a promising route to coherently convert
microwave and optical photons and distribute quantum entanglement between …

Non-Gaussian noise spectroscopy with a superconducting qubit sensor

Y Sung, F Beaudoin, LM Norris, F Yan, DK Kim… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Accurate characterization of the noise influencing a quantum system of interest has far-
reaching implications across quantum science, ranging from microscopic modeling of …

Suppression of low-frequency charge noise in superconducting resonators by surface spin desorption

SE De Graaf, L Faoro, J Burnett, AA Adamyan… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Noise and decoherence due to spurious two-level systems located at material interfaces are
long-standing issues for solid-state quantum devices. Efforts to mitigate the effects of two …