BACKGROUND The past two decades have seen intense efforts aimed at building quantum
computing hardware with the potential to solve problems that are intractable on classical …

Advances in materials science and engineering have played a central role in the
development of classical computers and will undoubtedly be critical in propelling the …

For the first time in history, we are seeing a branching point in computing paradigms with the
emergence of quantum processing units (QPUs). Extracting the full potential of computation …

Here we report a breakthrough in the fabrication of a long lifetime transmon qubit. We use
tantalum films as the base superconductor. By using a dry etching process, we obtained …

The superconducting transmon qubit is a leading platform for quantum computing and
quantum science. Building large, useful quantum systems based on transmon qubits will …

The performance of superconducting quantum circuits for quantum computing has advanced
tremendously in recent decades; however, a comprehensive understanding of relaxation …

To date, quantum computation on real, physical devices has largely been limited to simple,
time-ordered sequences of unitary operations followed by a final projective measurement …

Amorphous solids show surprisingly universal behaviour at low temperatures. The
prevailing wisdom is that this can be explained by the existence of two-state defects within …

The concept of quantum computing has inspired a whole new generation of scientists,
including physicists, engineers, and computer scientists, to fundamentally change the …

As quantum coherence times of superconducting circuits have increased from nanoseconds
to hundreds of microseconds, they are currently one of the leading platforms for quantum …