BACKGROUND The past two decades have seen intense efforts aimed at building quantum
computing hardware with the potential to solve problems that are intractable on classical …

Advances in materials science and engineering have played a central role in the
development of classical computers and will undoubtedly be critical in propelling the …

GaN technology is not only gaining traction in power and RF electronics but is also rapidly
expanding into other application areas including digital and quantum computing electronics …

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 …

The progress witnessed within the field of quantum computing has been enabled by the
identification and understanding of interactions between the state of the quantum bit (qubit) …

Improving the coherence of superconducting qubits is a fundamental step towards the
realization of fault-tolerant quantum computation. However, coherence times of quantum …

The nitride semiconductor materials GaN, AlN, and InN, and their alloys and
heterostructures have been investigated extensively in the last 3 decades, leading to several …

Niobium offers the benefit of increased operating temperatures and frequencies for
Josephson junctions, which are the core component of superconducting devices. However …

We demonstrate a superconducting transmon qubit in which a Josephson junction has been
engineered to act as its own parallel shunt capacitor. This merged-element transmon …

Controlled synthesis of metastable materials away from equilibrium is of interest in materials
chemistry. Thin-film deposition methods with rapid condensation of vapour precursors can …