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 …

Material matters in superconducting qubits

CE Murray - Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
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) …

Surpassing millisecond coherence in on chip superconducting quantum memories by optimizing materials and circuit design

S Ganjam, Y Wang, Y Lu, A Banerjee, CU Lei… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The performance of superconducting quantum circuits for quantum computing has advanced
tremendously in recent decades; however, a comprehensive understanding of relaxation …

High-coherence fluxonium qubit

LB Nguyen, YH Lin, A Somoroff, R Mencia, N Grabon… - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
We report superconducting fluxonium qubits with coherence times largely limited by energy
relaxation and reproducibly satisfying T 2> 100 μ s (T 2> 400 μ s in one device). Moreover …

Gate-based superconducting quantum computing

S Kwon, A Tomonaga, G Lakshmi Bhai… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Quantum computing is considered as a next-generation information processing technology.
The basic element of a quantum computing system is a quantum bit, often called a qubit …

Determining interface dielectric losses in superconducting coplanar-waveguide resonators

W Woods, G Calusine, A Melville, A Sevi, E Golden… - Physical Review …, 2019 - APS
Superconducting quantum-computing architectures comprise resonators and qubits that
experience energy loss due to two-level systems (TLSs) in bulk and interfacial dielectrics. An …

The superconducting quasicharge qubit

IV Pechenezhskiy, RA Mencia, LB Nguyen, YH Lin… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The non-dissipative nonlinearity of Josephson junctions converts macroscopic
superconducting circuits into artificial atoms, enabling some of the best-controlled qubits …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis and mitigation of interface losses in trenched superconducting coplanar waveguide resonators

G Calusine, A Melville, W Woods, R Das, C Stull… - Applied Physics …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Improving the performance of superconducting qubits and resonators generally results from
a combination of materials and fabrication process improvements and design modifications …

Precision measurement of the microwave dielectric loss of sapphire in the quantum regime with parts-per-billion sensitivity

AP Read, BJ Chapman, CU Lei, JC Curtis, S Ganjam… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Dielectric loss is known to limit state-of-the-art superconducting qubit lifetimes. Recent
experiments imply upper bounds on bulk dielectric loss tangents on the order of 100 parts …

Superconducting microwave cavities and qubits for quantum information systems

A Krasnok, P Dhakal, A Fedorov, P Frigola… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Superconducting microwave cavities featuring ultrahigh Q-factors, which measure the
efficiency of energy storage in relation to energy loss in a system, are revolutionizing …