Towards understanding two-level-systems in amorphous solids: insights from quantum circuits

C Müller, JH Cole, J Lisenfeld - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Materials loss measurements using superconducting microwave resonators

CRH McRae, H Wang, J Gao, MR Vissers… - Review of Scientific …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The performance of superconducting circuits for quantum computing is limited by materials
losses. In particular, coherence times are typically bounded by two-level system (TLS) …

Building logical qubits in a superconducting quantum computing system

JM Gambetta, JM Chow, M Steffen - npj quantum information, 2017 - nature.com
The technological world is in the midst of a quantum computing and quantum information
revolution. Since Richard Feynman's famous 'plenty of room at the bottom'lecture (Feynman …

Cavity quantum electrodynamics with atom-like mirrors

M Mirhosseini, E Kim, X Zhang, A Sipahigil, PB Dieterle… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
It has long been recognized that atomic emission of radiation is not an immutable property of
an atom, but is instead dependent on the electromagnetic environment and, in the case of …

Resonance fluorescence of a chiral artificial atom

C Joshi, F Yang, M Mirhosseini - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
We demonstrate a superconducting artificial atom with strong unidirectional coupling to a
microwave photonic waveguide. Our artificial atom is realized by coupling a transmon qubit …

High fidelity two-qubit gates on fluxoniums using a tunable coupler

IN Moskalenko, IA Simakov, NN Abramov… - npj Quantum …, 2022 - nature.com
Superconducting fluxonium qubits provide a promising alternative to transmons on the path
toward large-scale superconductor-based quantum computing due to their better coherence …

Ergodic dynamics and thermalization in an isolated quantum system

C Neill, P Roushan, M Fang, Y Chen, M Kolodrubetz… - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
Statistical mechanics is founded on the assumption that all accessible configurations of a
system are equally likely. This requires dynamics that explore all states over time, known as …

Fast accurate state measurement with superconducting qubits

E Jeffrey, D Sank, JY Mutus, TC White, J Kelly… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
Faster and more accurate state measurement is required for progress in superconducting
qubit experiments with greater numbers of qubits and advanced techniques such as …

Stark many-body localization on a superconducting quantum processor

Q Guo, C Cheng, H Li, S Xu, P Zhang, Z Wang, C Song… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
Quantum emulators, owing to their large degree of tunability and control, allow the
observation of fine aspects of closed quantum many-body systems, as either the regime …

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) …