Quantum computers have been proposed to solve a number of important problems such as
discovering new drugs, new catalysts for fertilizer production, breaking encryption protocols …

Quantum thermodynamics seeks to extend non-equilibrium stochastic thermodynamics to
small quantum systems where non-classical features are essential to its description. Such a …

Designing the spatial profile of the superconducting gap—gap engineering—has long been
recognized as an effective way of controlling quasiparticles in superconducting devices. In …

Near-term quantum computers are primarily limited by errors in quantum operations (or
gates) between two quantum bits (or qubits). A physical machine typically provides a set of …

Parasitic two-level-system (TLS) defects are one of the major factors limiting the coherence
times of superconducting qubits. Although there has been significant progress in …

Superconducting quantum circuits are a promising platform for quantum computation. The
building block for most quantum processors is a qubit (quantum bit) which can store …