Phonon engineering of atomic-scale defects in superconducting quantum circuits

M Chen, JC Owens, H Putterman, M Schäfer… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Noise within solid-state systems at low temperatures can typically be traced back to material
defects. In amorphous materials, these defects are broadly described by the tunneling two …

Decoherence induced by a sparse bath of two-level fluctuators: Peculiar features of noise in high-quality qubits

M Mehmandoost, VV Dobrovitski - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
Progress in fabrication of semiconductor and superconductor qubits has greatly diminished
the number of decohering defects, thus decreasing the devastating low-frequency 1/f noise …

Characterizing losses in InAs two-dimensional electron gas-based gatemon qubits

WM Strickland, LJ Baker, J Lee, K Dindial… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
The tunneling of Cooper pairs across a Josephson junction (JJ) allows for the nonlinear
inductance necessary to construct superconducting qubits, amplifiers, and various other …

Flux qubit based detector of microwave photons

OA Ilinskaya, AI Ryzhov, SN Shevchenko - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
A theory of detection of microwave photons with a flux qubit based detector is presented. We
consider a semiclassical approximation with the electromagnetic field being in a coherent …

Magnets are Weber Bar Gravitational Wave Detectors

V Domcke, SAR Ellis, NL Rodd - arxiv preprint arxiv:2408.01483, 2024 - arxiv.org
When a gravitational wave (GW) passes through a DC magnetic field, it couples to the
conducting wires carrying the currents which generate the magnetic field, causing them to …

[HTML][HTML] Resource-efficient digital characterization and control of classical non-Gaussian noise

W Dong, GA Paz-Silva, L Viola - Applied Physics Letters, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We show the usefulness of frame-based characterization and control [PRX Quantum 2,
030315 (2021)] for non-Markovian open quantum systems subject to classical non-Gaussian …

Dephasing in fluxonium qubits from coherent quantum phase slips

MT Randeria, TM Hazard, A Di Paolo, K Azar, M Hays… - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
Phase slips occur across all Josephson junctions (JJs) at a rate that increases with the
impedance of the junction. In superconducting qubits composed of JJ-array superinductors …

A universal framework for quantum dissipation: minimally extended state space and exact time-local dynamics

M Xu, V Vadimov, M Krug, JT Stockburger… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The dynamics of open quantum systems is formulated in a minimally extended state space
comprising the degrees of freedom of a system of interest and a finite set of non-unitary, pure …

Implementation of scalable suspended superinductors

C Jünger, T Chistolini, LB Nguyen, H Kim… - Applied Physics …, 2025 - pubs.aip.org
Superinductors have become a crucial component in the superconducting circuit toolbox,
playing a key role in the development of more robust qubits. Enhancing the performance of …

Robust gates with spin-locked superconducting qubits

I Zuk, D Cohen, AV Gorshkov, A Retzker - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
Dynamical decoupling is effective in reducing gate errors in most quantum computation
platforms and is therefore projected to play an essential role in future fault-tolerant …