Blueprint for a high-performance fluxonium quantum processor

LB Nguyen, G Koolstra, Y Kim, A Morvan, T Chistolini… - PRX Quantum, 2022 - APS
Transforming stand-alone qubits into a functional, general-purpose quantum processing unit
requires an architecture where many-body quantum entanglement can be generated and …

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 …

Moving beyond the transmon: Noise-protected superconducting quantum circuits

A Gyenis, A Di Paolo, J Koch, A Blais, AA Houck… - PRX Quantum, 2021 - APS
Artificial atoms realized by superconducting circuits offer unique opportunities to store and
process quantum information with high fidelity. Among them, implementations of circuits that …

Superconducting circuit companion—an introduction with worked examples

SE Rasmussen, KS Christensen, SP Pedersen… - PRX Quantum, 2021 - APS
This tutorial aims at giving an introductory treatment of the circuit analysis of
superconducting qubits, ie, two-level systems in superconducting circuits. It also touches …

High-coherence fluxonium qubit

LB Nguyen, YH Lin, A Somoroff, R Mencia, N Grabon… - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
We report superconducting fluxonium qubits with coherence times largely limited by energy
relaxation and reproducibly satisfying T 2> 100 μ s (T 2> 400 μ s in one device). Moreover …

Cryogenic microwave-to-optical conversion using a triply resonant lithium-niobate-on-sapphire transducer

TP McKenna, JD Witmer, RN Patel, W Jiang… - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Quantum networks are likely to have a profound impact on the way we compute and
communicate in the future. In order to wire together superconducting quantum processors …

Granular aluminium as a superconducting material for high-impedance quantum circuits

L Grünhaupt, M Spiecker, D Gusenkova, N Maleeva… - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
Superconducting quantum information processing machines are predominantly based on
microwave circuits with relatively low characteristic impedance, about 100 Ω, and small …

Charge-4e supercurrent in a two-dimensional InAs-Al superconductor-semiconductor heterostructure

C Ciaccia, R Haller, ACC Drachmann… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Superconducting qubits with intrinsic noise protection offer a promising approach to improve
the coherence of quantum information. Crucial to such protected qubits is the encoding of …

Unimon qubit

E Hyyppä, S Kundu, CF Chan, A Gunyhó… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Superconducting qubits seem promising for useful quantum computers, but the currently
wide-spread qubit designs and techniques do not yet provide high enough performance …

Parity-protected superconductor-semiconductor qubit

TW Larsen, ME Gershenson, L Casparis, A Kringhøj… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
Coherence of superconducting qubits can be improved by implementing designs that protect
the parity of Cooper pairs on superconducting islands. Here, we introduce a parity-protected …