Using Bifluxon tunneling to protect the fluxonium qubit

W Ardati, S Léger, S Kumar, VN Suresh, D Nicolas… - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
Encoding quantum information in quantum states with disjoint wave-function support and
noise-insensitive energies is the key behind the idea of qubit protection. While fully …

Quantum circuits with multiterminal Josephson-Andreev junctions

FJ Matute-Cañadas, L Tosi, AL Yeyati - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
We explore superconducting quantum circuits where several leads are simultaneously
connected beyond the tunneling regime, such that the fermionic structure of Andreev bound …

Josephson tunnel junction arrays and Andreev weak links: linked by a single energy-phase relation

AM Bozkurt, V Fatemi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.06462, 2024 - arxiv.org
Josephson elements are cornerstones of cryogenic classical and quantum superconducting
technology, owing to their nonlinearity. Two important types of Josephson elements are …

Kramers-protected hardware-efficient error correction with Andreev spin qubits

H Lu, IA Day, AR Akhmerov, B van Heck… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We propose an architecture for bit flip error correction of Andreev spins that is protected by
Kramers' degeneracy. Specifically, we show that a coupling network of linear inductors …

Numerical evaluation of the real-time photon-instanton cross-section in a superconducting circuit

A Burshtein, D Shuliutsky, R Kuzmin… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Instantons, semi-classical trajectories of quantum tunneling in imaginary time, have long
been used to study thermodynamic and transport properties in a myriad of condensed matter …