Benchmarking noise and dephasing in emerging electrical materials for quantum technologies

S Islam, S Shamim, A Ghosh - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As quantum technologies develop, a specific class of electrically conducting materials is
rapidly gaining interest because they not only form the core quantum‐enabled elements in …

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 …

Structure and formation mechanisms in tantalum and niobium oxides in superconducting quantum circuits

JS Oh, R Zaman, AA Murthy, M Bal, F Crisa, S Zhu… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Improving the qubit's lifetime (T1) is crucial for fault-tolerant quantum computing. Recent
advancements have shown that replacing niobium (Nb) with tantalum (Ta) as the base metal …

Analog quantum control of magnonic cat states on a chip by a superconducting qubit

M Kounalakis, GEW Bauer, YM Blanter - Physical review letters, 2022 - APS
We propose to directly and quantum-coherently couple a superconducting transmon qubit to
magnons—the quanta of the collective spin excitations, in a nearby magnetic particle. The …

Nanoscale map** of the 3D strain tensor in a germanium quantum well hosting a functional spin qubit device

C Corley-Wiciak, C Richter, MH Zoellner… - … applied materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A strained Ge quantum well, grown on a SiGe/Si virtual substrate and hosting two
electrostatically defined hole spin qubits, is nondestructively investigated by synchrotron …

Mitigation of interfacial dielectric loss in aluminum-on-silicon superconducting qubits

J Biznárová, A Osman, E Rehnman… - npj Quantum …, 2024 - nature.com
We demonstrate aluminum-on-silicon planar transmon qubits with time-averaged T 1 energy
relaxation times of up to 270 μs, corresponding to Q= 5 million, and a highest observed …

A paired-ion framework composed of vanadyl porphyrin molecular qubits extends spin coherence times

CM Moisanu, HJ Eckvahl, CL Stern… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Molecular electron spin qubits arranged in precise arrays have great potential for use in
quantum information science applications. Molecular qubits are synthetically versatile and …

Surface oxides, carbides, and impurities on RF superconducting Nb and Nb3Sn: A comprehensive analysis

Z Sun, Z Baraissov, CA Dukes, DK Dare… - Superconductor …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Surface structures on radio-frequency (RF) superconductors are crucially important in
determining their interaction with the RF field. Here we investigate the surface compositions …

Develo** a chemical and structural understanding of the surface oxide in a niobium superconducting qubit

AA Murthy, P Masih Das, SM Ribet, C Kopas, J Lee… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Superconducting thin films of niobium have been extensively employed in transmon qubit
architectures. Although these architectures have demonstrated improvements in recent …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the relationship between deposition method, microstructure, and performance of Nb/Si-based superconducting coplanar waveguide resonators

JS Oh, CJ Kopas, J Marshall, X Fang, KR Joshi, A Datta… - Acta Materialia, 2024 - Elsevier
Superconducting quantum circuits (SQC) are one of the most promising hardware platforms
for quantum computing, yet their performance is currently limited by the presence of various …