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quant-ph2025

Evaluating radiation impact on transmon qubits in above and underground facilities

Francesco De Dominicis, Tanay Roy, Ambra Mariani +20

Superconducting qubits can be sensitive to abrupt energy deposits caused by cosmic rays and ambient radioactivity. While previous studies have explored correlated effects in time a…

quant-ph2022

Operating in a deep underground facility improves the locking of gradiometric fluxonium qubits at the sweet spots

Daria Gusenkova, Francesco Valenti, Martin Spiecker +14

We demonstrate flux-bias locking and operation of a gradiometric fluxonium artificial atom using two symmetric granular aluminum (grAl) loops to implement the superinductor. The gr…

physics.ins-det2021

Final results of CALDER: Kinetic inductance light detectors to search for rare events

Laura Cardani, Nicola Casali, Ivan Colantoni +6

The next generation of bolometric experiments searching for rave events, in particular for the neutrino-less double beta decay, needs fast, high-sensitivity and easy-to-scale cryog…

astro-ph.IM2020

A chemically etched corrugated feedhorn array for D-band CMB observations

Stefano Mandelli, Elenia Manzan, Aniello Mennella +19

We present the design, manufacturing, and testing of a 37-element array of corrugated feedhorns for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) measurements between and GHz. The…

quant-ph2026

A Cryogenic Muon Tagging System Based on Kinetic Inductance Detectors for Superconducting Quantum Processors

Ambra Mariani, Laura Cardani, Mustafa Bal +16

Ionizing radiation has emerged as a potential limiting factor for superconducting quantum processors, inducing quasiparticle bursts and correlated errors that challenge fault-toler…

cond-mat.supr-con2020

Reducing the impact of radioactivity on quantum circuits in a deep-underground facility

Laura Cardani, Francesco Valenti, Nicola Casali +20

As quantum coherence times of superconducting circuits have increased from nanoseconds to hundreds of microseconds, they are currently one of the leading platforms for quantum info…

physics.ins-det2026

Enhanced Athermal Phonon Responsivity in a Kinetic Inductance Detector with Integrated Phonon Collectors

Leonardo Pesce, Alessio Ludovico De Santis, Martino Calvo +10

Cryogenic phonon detectors are adopted in light dark matter searches and coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering experiments as they can achieve low energy thresholds. The pho…