Materials challenges and opportunities for quantum computing hardware

NP De Leon, KM Itoh, D Kim, KK Mehta, TE Northup… - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND The past two decades have seen intense efforts aimed at building quantum
computing hardware with the potential to solve problems that are intractable on classical …

Engineering high-coherence superconducting qubits

I Siddiqi - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Advances in materials science and engineering have played a central role in the
development of classical computers and will undoubtedly be critical in propelling the …

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 …

Superconducting-qubit readout via low-backaction electro-optic transduction

RD Delaney, MD Urmey, S Mittal, BM Brubaker… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Entangling microwave-frequency superconducting quantum processors through optical light
at ambient temperature would enable means of secure communication and distributed …

[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 …

Impact of ionizing radiation on superconducting qubit coherence

AP Vepsäläinen, AH Karamlou, JL Orrell, AS Dogra… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Technologies that rely on quantum bits (qubits) require long coherence times and high-
fidelity operations. Superconducting qubits are one of the leading platforms for achieving …

Quantum-enabled millimetre wave to optical transduction using neutral atoms

A Kumar, A Suleymanzade, M Stone, L Taneja… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Early experiments with transiting circular Rydberg atoms in a superconducting resonator laid
the foundations of modern cavity and circuit quantum electrodynamics, and helped explore …

Engineering cryogenic setups for 100-qubit scale superconducting circuit systems

S Krinner, S Storz, P Kurpiers, P Magnard… - EPJ Quantum …, 2019 - epjqt.epj.org
A robust cryogenic infrastructure in form of a wired, thermally optimized dilution refrigerator
is essential for solid-state based quantum processors. Here, we engineer a cryogenic setup …

Decoherence benchmarking of superconducting qubits

JJ Burnett, A Bengtsson, M Scigliuzzo… - npj Quantum …, 2019 - nature.com
We benchmark the decoherence of superconducting transmon qubits to examine the
temporal stability of energy relaxation, dephasing, and qubit transition frequency. By …

Materials loss measurements using superconducting microwave resonators

CRH McRae, H Wang, J Gao, MR Vissers… - Review of Scientific …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The performance of superconducting circuits for quantum computing is limited by materials
losses. In particular, coherence times are typically bounded by two-level system (TLS) …