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Publications (33)

quant-ph2023

Measurement-induced entanglement and teleportation on a noisy quantum processor

Jesse C. Hoke, Matteo Ippoliti, Eliott Rosenberg +160

Measurement has a special role in quantum theory: by collapsing the wavefunction it can enable phenomena such as teleportation and thereby alter the "arrow of time" that constrains…

quant-ph2021

Leveraging Randomized Compiling for the QITE Algorithm

Jean-Loup Ville, Alexis Morvan, Akel Hashim +13

The success of the current generation of Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) hardware shows that quantum hardware may be able to tackle complex problems even without error corr…

quant-ph2022

Scalable High-Performance Fluxonium Quantum Processor

Long B. Nguyen, Gerwin Koolstra, Yosep Kim +12

The technological development of hardware heading toward universal fault-tolerant quantum computation requires a large-scale processing unit with high performance. While fluxonium…

quant-ph2024

Dynamics of magnetization at infinite temperature in a Heisenberg spin chain

Eliott Rosenberg, Trond Andersen, Rhine Samajdar +178

Understanding universal aspects of quantum dynamics is an unresolved problem in statistical mechanics. In particular, the spin dynamics of the 1D Heisenberg model were conjectured…

physics.app-ph2021

Bulk properties of honeycomb lattices of superconducting microwave resonators

Alexis Morvan, Mathieu Féchant, Gianluca Aiello +2

We have realized different honeycomb lattices for microwave photons in the 4 to 8 GHz band using superconducting spiral resonators. Each lattice comprises a few hundred sites. Two…

quant-ph2022

Noise-resilient Edge Modes on a Chain of Superconducting Qubits

Xiao Mi, Michael Sonner, Murphy Yuezhen Niu +125

Inherent symmetry of a quantum system may protect its otherwise fragile states. Leveraging such protection requires testing its robustness against uncontrolled environmental intera…

quant-ph2022

Suppressing quantum errors by scaling a surface code logical qubit

Rajeev Acharya, Igor Aleiner, Richard Allen +154

Practical quantum computing will require error rates that are well below what is achievable with physical qubits. Quantum error correction offers a path to algorithmically-relevant…

quant-ph2024

Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold

Rajeev Acharya, Laleh Aghababaie-Beni, Igor Aleiner +246

Quantum error correction provides a path to reach practical quantum computing by combining multiple physical qubits into a logical qubit, where the logical error rate is suppressed…

quant-ph2025

Magic state cultivation on a superconducting quantum processor

Emma Rosenfeld, Craig Gidney, Gabrielle Roberts +292

Fault-tolerant quantum computing requires a universal gate set, but the necessary non-Clifford gates represent a significant resource cost for most quantum error correction archite…

quant-ph2018

Observation of the Unconventional Photon Blockade in the Microwave Domain

Cyril Vaneph, Alexis Morvan, Gianluca Aiello +4

We have observed the unconventional photon blockade effect for microwave photons using two coupled superconducting resonators. As opposed to the conventional blockade, only weakly…

quant-ph2022

Quantum bath engineering of a high impedance microwave mode through quasiparticle tunneling

Gianluca Aiello, Mathieu Féchant, Alexis Morvan +4

We demonstrate a new approach to dissipation engineering in microwave quantum optics. For a single mode, dissipation usually corresponds to quantum jumps, where photons are lost on…

quant-ph2024

Scaling and logic in the color code on a superconducting quantum processor

Nathan Lacroix, Alexandre Bourassa, Francisco J. H. Heras +212

Quantum error correction is essential for bridging the gap between the error rates of physical devices and the extremely low logical error rates required for quantum algorithms. Re…

quant-ph2026

Reinforcement Learning Control of Quantum Error Correction

Volodymyr Sivak, Alexis Morvan, Michael Broughton +296

Quantum error correction (QEC) is the primary strategy for protecting a quantum computer from the environment. Its prerequisite is that errors must remain sufficiently rare, which…

physics.app-ph2021

Observation of topological valley Hall edge states in honeycomb lattices of superconducting microwave resonators

Alexis Morvan, Mathieu Féchant, Gianluca Aiello +2

We have designed honeycomb lattices for microwave photons with a frequency imbalance between the two sites in the unit cell. This imbalance is the equivalent of a mass term that br…

quant-ph2024

Thermalization and Criticality on an Analog-Digital Quantum Simulator

Trond I. Andersen, Nikita Astrakhantsev, Amir H. Karamlou +224

Understanding how interacting particles approach thermal equilibrium is a major challenge of quantum simulators. Unlocking the full potential of such systems toward this goal requi…

quant-ph2025

Observation of disorder-free localization using a (2+1)D lattice gauge theory on a quantum processor

Gaurav Gyawali, Shashwat Kumar, Yuri D. Lensky +219

Disorder-induced phenomena in quantum many-body systems pose significant challenges for analytical methods and numerical simulations at relevant time and system scales. To reduce t…

quant-ph2025

Constructive interference at the edge of quantum ergodic dynamics

Dmitry A. Abanin, Rajeev Acharya, Laleh Aghababaie-Beni +262

Quantum observables in the form of few-point correlators are the key to characterizing the dynamics of quantum many-body systems. In dynamics with fast entanglement generation, qua…

quant-ph2023

Non-Abelian braiding of graph vertices in a superconducting processor

Trond I. Andersen, Yuri D. Lensky, Kostyantyn Kechedzhi +166

Indistinguishability of particles is a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics. For all elementary and quasiparticles observed to date - including fermions, bosons, and Abelian…

quant-ph2021

QubiC: An open source FPGA-based control and measurement system for superconducting quantum information processors

Yilun Xu, Gang Huang, Jan Balewski +6

As quantum information processors grow in quantum bit (qubit) count and functionality, the control and measurement system becomes a limiting factor to large scale extensibility. To…

quant-ph2023

High-Fidelity Qutrit Entangling Gates for Superconducting Circuits

Noah Goss, Alexis Morvan, Brian Marinelli +9

Ternary quantum information processing in superconducting devices poses a promising alternative to its more popular binary counterpart through larger, more connected computational…

quant-ph2022

Overcoming leakage in scalable quantum error correction

Kevin C. Miao, Matt McEwen, Juan Atalaya +114

Leakage of quantum information out of computational states into higher energy states represents a major challenge in the pursuit of quantum error correction (QEC). In a QEC circuit…

quant-ph2024

Efficiently improving the performance of noisy quantum computers

Samuele Ferracin, Akel Hashim, Jean-Loup Ville +7

Using near-term quantum computers to achieve a quantum advantage requires efficient strategies to improve the performance of the noisy quantum devices presently available. We devel…

quant-ph2021

Automatic Qubit Characterization and Gate Optimization with QubiC

Yilun Xu, Gang Huang, Jan Balewski +6

As the size and complexity of a quantum computer increases, quantum bit (qubit) characterization and gate optimization become complex and time-consuming tasks. Current calibration…

quant-ph2026

A Qutrit Time Crystal Stabilized with Native Chiral Interactions

Noah Goss, Nishchay Suri, Brian Marinelli +11

Periodically driven quantum many-body systems can spontaneously break discrete time-translation symmetry, realizing discrete time crystals. To date, both experimental and theoretic…

quant-ph2022

Readout of a quantum processor with high dynamic range Josephson parametric amplifiers

T. C. White, Alex Opremcak, George Sterling +91

We demonstrate a high dynamic range Josephson parametric amplifier (JPA) in which the active nonlinear element is implemented using an array of rf-SQUIDs. The device is matched to…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019

High Kinetic Inductance Microwave Resonators Made by He-Beam Assisted Deposition of Tungsten Nanowires

Julien Basset, Diana Watfa, Gianluca Aiello +9

We evaluate the performance of hybrid microwave resonators made by combining sputtered Nb thin films with Tungsten nanowires grown with a He-beam induced deposition technique. Depe…

quant-ph2025

Demonstrating dynamic surface codes

Alec Eickbusch, Matt McEwen, Volodymyr Sivak +204

A remarkable characteristic of quantum computing is the potential for reliable computation despite faulty qubits. This can be achieved through quantum error correction, which is ty…

quant-ph2022

Effects of Laser-Annealing on Fixed-Frequency Superconducting Qubits

Hyunseong Kim, Christian Jünger, Alexis Morvan +10

As superconducting quantum processors increase in complexity, techniques to overcome constraints on frequency crowding are needed. The recently developed method of laser-annealing…

quant-ph2023

High-fidelity three-qubit iToffoli gate for fixed-frequency superconducting qubits

Yosep Kim, Alexis Morvan, Long B. Nguyen +6

The development of noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices has extended the scope of executable quantum circuits with high-fidelity single- and two-qubit gates. Equipping N…

quant-ph2021

Randomized compiling for scalable quantum computing on a noisy superconducting quantum processor

Akel Hashim, Ravi K. Naik, Alexis Morvan +11

The successful implementation of algorithms on quantum processors relies on the accurate control of quantum bits (qubits) to perform logic gate operations. In this era of noisy int…

quant-ph2022

Formation of robust bound states of interacting microwave photons

Alexis Morvan, Trond I. Andersen, Xiao Mi +147

Systems of correlated particles appear in many fields of science and represent some of the most intractable puzzles in nature. The computational challenge in these systems arises w…

quant-ph2021

Hardware-Efficient Microwave-Activated Tunable Coupling Between Superconducting Qubits

Bradley K. Mitchell, Ravi K. Naik, Alexis Morvan +7

Generating high-fidelity, tunable entanglement between qubits is crucial for realizing gate-based quantum computation. In superconducting circuits, tunable interactions are often i…

quant-ph2022

Optimizing frequency allocation for fixed-frequency superconducting quantum processors

Alexis Morvan, Larry Chen, Jeffrey M. Larson +2

Fixed-frequency superconducting quantum processors are one of the most mature quantum computing architectures with high-coherence qubits and simple controls. However, high-fidelity…