Suppressing counter-rotating errors for fast single-qubit gates with fluxonium

DA Rower, L Ding, H Zhang, M Hays, J An… - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
Qubit decoherence unavoidably degrades the fidelity of quantum logic gates. Accordingly,
realizing gates that are as fast as possible is a guiding principle for qubit control …

Hamiltonian extrema of an arbitrary flux-biased Josephson circuit

A Miano, VR Joshi, G Liu, W Dai, PD Parakh, L Frunzio… - PRX Quantum, 2023 - APS
Flux-biased loops including one or more Josephson junctions are ubiquitous elements in
quantum information experiments based on superconducting circuits. These quantum …

Symplectic geometry and circuit quantization

A Osborne, T Larson, SG Jones, RW Simmonds… - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
Circuit quantization is an extraordinarily successful theory that describes the behavior of
quantum circuits with high precision. The most widely used approach of circuit quantization …

Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill state preparation using periodic driving

XC Kolesnikow, RW Bomantara, AC Doherty… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) code may be used to overcome noise in continuous
variable quantum systems. However, preparing GKP states remains experimentally …

Experimental advances with the QICK (Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit) for superconducting quantum hardware

C Ding, M Di Federico, M Hatridge, A Houck… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
The Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit (QICK) is a standalone open-source qubit
controller that was first introduced in 2022. In this follow-up work, we present recent …

Quantum circuits with multiterminal Josephson-Andreev junctions

FJ Matute-Cañadas, L Tosi, AL Yeyati - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
We explore superconducting quantum circuits where several leads are simultaneously
connected beyond the tunneling regime, such that the fermionic structure of Andreev bound …

Geometrical description and Faddeev-Jackiw quantization of electrical networks

A Parra-Rodriguez, IL Egusquiza - Quantum, 2024 - quantum-journal.org
In lumped-element electrical circuit theory, the problem of solving Maxwell's equations in the
presence of media is reduced to two sets of equations, the constitutive equations …

Flux-pulse-assisted readout of a fluxonium qubit

TV Stefanski, CK Andersen - Physical Review Applied, 2024 - APS
Much attention has focused on the transmon architecture for large-scale superconducting
quantum devices; however, the fluxonium qubit has emerged as a possible successor. With …

Lecture Notes on Quantum Electrical Circuits

A Ciani, DP DiVincenzo, BM Terhal - arxiv preprint arxiv:2312.05329, 2023 - arxiv.org
During the last 30 years, stimulated by the quest to build superconducting quantum
processors, a theory of quantum electrical circuits has emerged and this theory goes under …

A Review of Design Concerns in Superconducting Quantum Circuits

EM Levenson-Falk, SA Shanto - arxiv preprint arxiv:2411.16967, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this short review we describe the process of designing a superconducting circuit device
for quantum information applications. We discuss the factors that must be considered to …