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) …

Experimental Realization of a Protected Superconducting Circuit Derived from the Qubit

A Gyenis, PS Mundada, A Di Paolo, TM Hazard, X You… - PRX Quantum, 2021 - APS
Encoding a qubit in logical quantum states with wave functions characterized by disjoint
support and robust energies can offer simultaneous protection against relaxation and pure …

Noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers

B Cheng, XH Deng, X Gu, Y He, G Hu, P Huang, J Li… - Frontiers of …, 2023 - Springer
Quantum computers have made extraordinary progress over the past decade, and
significant milestones have been achieved along the path of pursuing universal fault-tolerant …

Engineering superconducting qubits to reduce quasiparticles and charge noise

X Pan, Y Zhou, H Yuan, L Nie, W Wei, L Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Identifying, quantifying, and suppressing decoherence mechanisms in qubits are important
steps towards the goal of engineering a quantum computer or simulator. Superconducting …

Hexagonal boron nitride as a low-loss dielectric for superconducting quantum circuits and qubits

JIJ Wang, MA Yamoah, Q Li, AH Karamlou, T Dinh… - Nature materials, 2022 - nature.com
Dielectrics with low loss at microwave frequencies are imperative for high-coherence solid-
state quantum computing platforms. Here we study the dielectric loss of hexagonal boron …

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 …

Improved coherence in optically defined niobium trilayer-junction qubits

A Anferov, KH Lee, F Zhao, J Simon, DI Schuster - Physical Review Applied, 2024 - APS
Niobium offers the benefit of increased operating temperatures and frequencies for
Josephson junctions, which are the core component of superconducting devices. However …

Merged-element transmons: Design and qubit performance

HJ Mamin, E Huang, S Carnevale, CT Rettner… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
We demonstrate a superconducting transmon qubit in which a Josephson junction has been
engineered to act as its own parallel shunt capacitor. This merged-element transmon …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of superconducting through-silicon vias as capacitive elements in quantum circuits

TM Hazard, W Woods, D Rosenberg, R Das… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The large physical size of superconducting qubits and their associated on-chip control
structures presents a practical challenge toward building a large-scale quantum computer …

Miniaturizing transmon qubits using van der Waals materials

A Antony, MV Gustafsson, GJ Ribeill, M Ware… - Nano …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Quantum computers can potentially achieve an exponential speedup versus classical
computers on certain computational tasks, recently demonstrated in superconducting qubit …