High-fidelity, frequency-flexible two-qubit fluxonium gates with a transmon coupler

L Ding, M Hays, Y Sung, B Kannan, J An, A Di Paolo… - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
We propose and demonstrate an architecture for fluxonium-fluxonium two-qubit gates
mediated by transmon couplers (FTF, for fluxonium-transmon-fluxonium). Relative to …

Moving beyond the transmon: Noise-protected superconducting quantum circuits

A Gyenis, A Di Paolo, J Koch, A Blais, AA Houck… - PRX Quantum, 2021 - APS
Artificial atoms realized by superconducting circuits offer unique opportunities to store and
process quantum information with high fidelity. Among them, implementations of circuits that …

Time-dependent magnetic flux in devices for circuit quantum electrodynamics

J Bryon, DK Weiss, X You, S Sussman, X Croot… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Recent theoretical work has highlighted that quantizing a superconducting circuit in the
presence of time-dependent flux Φ (t) generally produces Hamiltonian terms proportional to …

Accurate methods for the analysis of strong-drive effects in parametric gates

A Petrescu, C Le Calonnec, C Leroux, A Di Paolo… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
The ability to perform fast, high-fidelity entangling gates is a requirement for a viable
quantum processor. In practice, achieving fast gates often comes with the penalty of strong …

Engineering Dynamical Sweet Spots to Protect Qubits from Noise

Z Huang, PS Mundada, A Gyenis, DI Schuster… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
Protecting superconducting qubits from low-frequency noise is essential for advancing
superconducting quantum computation. Based on the application of a periodic drive field …

Characterization of loss mechanisms in a fluxonium qubit

H Sun, F Wu, HS Ku, X Ma, J Qin, Z Song, T Wang… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Using a fluxonium qubit with in situ tunability of its Josephson energy, we characterize its
energy relaxation at different flux biases as well as different Josephson energy values. The …

Dynamical sweet spot engineering via two-tone flux modulation of superconducting qubits

JA Valery, S Chowdhury, G Jones, N Didier - PRX Quantum, 2022 - APS
Current superconducting quantum processors require strategies for co** with material
defects and imperfect parameter targeting in order to scale up while maintaining high …

Square-root Floquet topological phases and time crystals

RW Bomantara - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Periodically driven (Floquet) phases are attractive due to their ability to host unique physical
phenomena with no static counterparts. We propose a general approach in nontrivially …

Driven Andreev molecule

A Keliri, B Douçot - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We study the voltage-biased S-QD-S-QD-S Josephson junction, composed of three
superconductors (S) and two quantum dots (QDs). In the absence of an applied voltage, the …

Robust quantum optimal control with trajectory optimization

T Propson, BE Jackson, J Koch, Z Manchester… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
The ability to engineer high-fidelity gates on quantum processors in the presence of
systematic errors remains the primary barrier to achieving quantum advantage. Quantum …