Circuit quantum electrodynamics

A Blais, AL Grimsmo, SM Girvin, A Wallraff - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021 - APS
Quantum-mechanical effects at the macroscopic level were first explored in Josephson-
junction-based superconducting circuits in the 1980s. In recent decades, the emergence of …

Nonadiabatic landau–zener–stückelberg–majorana transitions, dynamics, and interference

V Ivakhnenko, SN Shevchenko, F Nori - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
Since the pioneering works by Landau, Zener, Stückelberg, and Majorana (LZSM), it has
been known that driving a quantum two-level system results in tunneling between its states …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

High fidelity two-qubit gates on fluxoniums using a tunable coupler

IN Moskalenko, IA Simakov, NN Abramov… - npj Quantum …, 2022 - nature.com
Superconducting fluxonium qubits provide a promising alternative to transmons on the path
toward large-scale superconductor-based quantum computing due to their better coherence …

[HTML][HTML] The QICK (Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit): Readout and control for qubits and detectors

L Stefanazzi, K Treptow, N Wilcer… - Review of Scientific …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We introduce a Xilinx RF System-on-Chip (RFSoC)-based qubit controller (called the
Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit, or QICK for short), which supports the direct synthesis …