Materials challenges and opportunities for quantum computing hardware

NP De Leon, KM Itoh, D Kim, KK Mehta, TE Northup… - Science, 2021 - science.org
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 …

Engineering high-coherence superconducting qubits

I Siddiqi - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
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 …

New material platform for superconducting transmon qubits with coherence times exceeding 0.3 milliseconds

APM Place, LVH Rodgers, P Mundada… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The superconducting transmon qubit is a leading platform for quantum computing and
quantum science. Building large, useful quantum systems based on transmon qubits will …

Millisecond coherence in a superconducting qubit

A Somoroff, Q Ficheux, RA Mencia, H Xiong… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Improving control over physical qubits is a crucial component of quantum computing
research. Here we report a superconducting fluxonium qubit with uncorrected coherence …

High-fidelity, frequency-flexible two-qubit fluxonium gates with a transmon coupler

L Ding, M Hays, Y Sung, B Kannan, J An, A Di Paolo… - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
We propose and demonstrate an architecture for fluxonium-fluxonium two-qubit gates
mediated by transmon couplers (FTF, for fluxonium-transmon-fluxonium). Relative to …

Noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers

B Cheng, XH Deng, X Gu, Y He, G Hu, P Huang, J Li… - Frontiers of …, 2023 - Springer
Quantum computers have made extraordinary progress over the past decade, and
significant milestones have been achieved along the path of pursuing universal fault-tolerant …

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 …

Fluxonium: an alternative qubit platform for high-fidelity operations

F Bao, H Deng, D Ding, R Gao, X Gao, C Huang… - Physical review …, 2022 - APS
Superconducting qubits provide a promising path toward building large-scale quantum
computers. The simple and robust transmon qubit has been the leading platform, achieving …

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) …

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 …