A superconducting dual-rail cavity qubit with erasure-detected logical measurements

KS Chou, T Shemma, H McCarrick, TC Chien… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
A critical challenge in develo** scalable quantum systems is correcting the accumulation
of errors while performing operations and measurements. It is known that systems where …

Observation of pairwise level degeneracies and the quantum regime of the Arrhenius law in a double-well parametric oscillator

NE Frattini, RG Cortiñas, J Venkatraman, X **ao, Q Su… - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
By applying a microwave drive to a specially designed Josephson circuit, we have realized
a double-well model system: a Kerr oscillator submitted to a squeezing force. We have …

Fast generation of Schrödinger cat states using a Kerr-tunable superconducting resonator

XL He, Y Lu, DQ Bao, H Xue, WB Jiang, Z Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Schrödinger cat states, quantum superpositions of macroscopically distinct classical states,
are an important resource for quantum communication, quantum metrology and quantum …

Superconducting cavity qubit with tens of milliseconds single-photon coherence time

O Milul, B Guttel, U Goldblatt, S Hazanov, LM Joshi… - PRX Quantum, 2023 - APS
Storing quantum information for an extended period of time is essential for running quantum
algorithms with low errors. Currently, superconducting quantum memories have coherence …

Quantum control of a cat qubit with bit-flip times exceeding ten seconds

U Réglade, A Bocquet, R Gautier, J Cohen, A Marquet… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Quantum bits (qubits) are prone to several types of error as the result of uncontrolled
interactions with their environment. Common strategies to correct these errors are based on …

High-coherence Kerr-Cat qubit in 2D architecture

A Hajr, B Qing, K Wang, G Koolstra, Z Pedramrazi… - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
The Kerr-cat qubit is a bosonic qubit in which multiphoton Schrödinger cat states are
stabilized by applying a two-photon drive to an oscillator with a Kerr nonlinearity. The …

Autonomous quantum error correction and fault-tolerant quantum computation with squeezed cat qubits

Q Xu, G Zheng, YX Wang, P Zoller, AA Clerk… - npj Quantum …, 2023 - nature.com
We propose an autonomous quantum error correction scheme using squeezed cat (SC)
code against excitation loss in continuous-variable systems. Through reservoir engineering …

Microwave photon detection at parametric criticality

K Petrovnin, J Wang, M Perelshtein, P Hakonen… - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
The detection of microwave fields at single-photon power levels is a much-sought-after
technology, with practical applications in nanoelectronics and quantum information science …

Performance analysis of a repetition cat code architecture: Computing 256-bit elliptic curve logarithm in 9 hours with 126 133 cat qubits

É Gouzien, D Ruiz, FM Le Régent, J Guillaud… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Cat qubits provide appealing building blocks for quantum computing. They exhibit a tunable
noise bias yielding an exponential suppression of bit flips with the average photon number …

LDPC-cat codes for low-overhead quantum computing in 2D

D Ruiz, J Guillaud, A Leverrier, M Mirrahimi… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
The main obstacle to large scale quantum computing are the errors present in every
physical qubit realization. Correcting these errors requires a large number of additional …