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] A quantum engineer's guide to superconducting qubits

P Krantz, M Kjaergaard, F Yan, TP Orlando… - Applied physics …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The aim of this review is to provide quantum engineers with an introductory guide to the
central concepts and challenges in the rapidly accelerating field of superconducting …

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 …

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 …

Exponential suppression of bit-flips in a qubit encoded in an oscillator

R Lescanne, M Villiers, T Peronnin, A Sarlette… - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
A quantum system interacts with its environment—if ever so slightly—no matter how much
care is put into isolating it. Therefore, quantum bits undergo errors, putting dauntingly difficult …

Perspective on superconducting qubit quantum computing

O Ezratty - The European Physical Journal A, 2023 - Springer
This perspective describes the history, scientific and technology developments of
superconducting qubit-based quantum computers, which are currently dominant, particularly …

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-coherence fluxonium qubit

LB Nguyen, YH Lin, A Somoroff, R Mencia, N Grabon… - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
We report superconducting fluxonium qubits with coherence times largely limited by energy
relaxation and reproducibly satisfying T 2> 100 μ s (T 2> 400 μ s in one device). Moreover …

[HTML][HTML] Probing quantum devices with radio-frequency reflectometry

F Vigneau, F Fedele, A Chatterjee, D Reilly… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Many important phenomena in quantum devices are dynamic, meaning that they cannot be
studied using time-averaged measurements alone. Experiments that measure such transient …

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 …