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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

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 …

Reminiscence of classical chaos in driven transmons

J Cohen, A Petrescu, R Shillito, A Blais - PRX Quantum, 2023 - APS
Transmon qubits are ubiquitously used in superconducting quantum information processor
architectures. Strong drives are required to realize fast, high-fidelity, gates and …

Atom interferometry with floquet atom optics

T Wilkason, M Nantel, J Rudolph, Y Jiang, BE Garber… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Floquet engineering offers a compelling approach for designing the time evolution of
periodically driven systems. We implement a periodic atom-light coupling to realize Floquet …

[HTML][HTML] Observation of Josephson harmonics in tunnel junctions

D Willsch, D Rieger, P Winkel, M Willsch, C Dickel… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Approaches to developing large-scale superconducting quantum processors must cope with
the numerous microscopic degrees of freedom that are ubiquitous in solid-state devices …

Parametric-resonance entangling gates with a tunable coupler

EA Sete, N Didier, AQ Chen, S Kulshreshtha… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
High-fidelity parametric gates have been demonstrated with superconducting qubits via rf
flux modulation of the qubit frequency. The modulation however leads to renormalization of …

Demonstrating a long-coherence dual-rail erasure qubit using tunable transmons

H Levine, A Haim, JSC Hung, N Alidoust, M Kalaee… - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
Quantum error correction with erasure qubits promises significant advantages over standard
error correction due to favorable thresholds for erasure errors. To realize this advantage in …

Fast high-fidelity gates for galvanically-coupled fluxonium qubits using strong flux modulation

DK Weiss, H Zhang, C Ding, Y Ma, DI Schuster, J Koch - PRX Quantum, 2022 - APS
Long coherence times, large anharmonicity, and robust charge-noise insensitivity render
fluxonium qubits an interesting alternative to transmons. Recent experiments have …

Accurate methods for the analysis of strong-drive effects in parametric gates

A Petrescu, C Le Calonnec, C Leroux, A Di Paolo… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
The ability to perform fast, high-fidelity entangling gates is a requirement for a viable
quantum processor. In practice, achieving fast gates often comes with the penalty of strong …