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 …

High-fidelity two-qubit gates at scale are a key requirement to realize the full promise of
quantum computation and simulation. The advent and use of coupler elements to tunably …

The transformation of digital computers from bulky machines to portable systems has been
enabled by new materials and advanced processing technologies that allow ultrahigh …

Quantum decoherence plays a pivotal role in the dynamical description of the quantum-to-
classical transition and is the main impediment to the realization of devices for quantum …

The technique of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP), which allows efficient and
selective population transfer between quantum states without suffering loss due to …

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

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 unique features of quantum theory offer a powerful new paradigm for information
processing. Translating these mathematical abstractions into useful algorithms and …

Superconducting qubits are an attractive platform for quantum computing since they have
demonstrated high-fidelity quantum gates and extensibility to modest system sizes …