Publications (40)
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…
Supplementary information for "Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor"
Frank Arute, Kunal Arya, Ryan Babbush +74
This is an updated version of supplementary information to accompany "Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor", an article published in the October 24, 201…
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…
Strong environmental coupling in a Josephson parametric amplifier
Josh Mutus, Ted White, Rami Barends +16
We present a lumped-element Josephson parametric amplifier designed to operate with strong coupling to the environment. In this regime, we observe broadband frequency dependent amp…
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…
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…
Quantum Approximate Optimization of Non-Planar Graph Problems on a Planar Superconducting Processor
Matthew P. Harrigan, Kevin J. Sung, Matthew Neeley +83
We demonstrate the application of the Google Sycamore superconducting qubit quantum processor to combinatorial optimization problems with the quantum approximate optimization algor…
Resolving catastrophic error bursts from cosmic rays in large arrays of superconducting qubits
Matt McEwen, Lara Faoro, Kunal Arya +50
Scalable quantum computing can become a reality with error correction, provided coherent qubits can be constructed in large arrays. The key premise is that physical errors can rema…
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…
Optimizing quantum gates towards the scale of logical qubits
Paul V. Klimov, Andreas Bengtsson, Chris Quintana +21
A foundational assumption of quantum error correction theory is that quantum gates can be scaled to large processors without exceeding the error-threshold for fault tolerance. Two…
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…
Information Scrambling in Computationally Complex Quantum Circuits
Xiao Mi, Pedram Roushan, Chris Quintana +90
Interaction in quantum systems can spread initially localized quantum information into the many degrees of freedom of the entire system. Understanding this process, known as quantu…
Computing prime factors with a Josephson phase qubit quantum processor
Erik Lucero, Rami Barends, Yu Chen +11
A quantum processor (QuP) can be used to exploit quantum mechanics to find the prime factors of composite numbers[1]. Compiled versions of Shor's algorithm have been demonstrated o…
Design and characterization of a lumped element single-ended superconducting microwave parametric amplifier with on-chip flux bias line
Josh Mutus, Ted White, Evan Jeffrey +18
We demonstrate a lumped-element Josephson parametric amplifier, using a single-ended design that includes an on-chip, high-bandwidth flux bias line. The amplifier can be pumped int…
Learning Non-Markovian Quantum Noise from Moiré-Enhanced Swap Spectroscopy with Deep Evolutionary Algorithm
Murphy Yuezhen Niu, Vadim Smelyanskyi, Paul Klimov +30
Two-level-system (TLS) defects in amorphous dielectrics are a major source of noise and decoherence in solid-state qubits. Gate-dependent non-Markovian errors caused by TLS-qubit c…
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…
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…
Sputtered TiN films for superconducting coplanar waveguide resonators
Shinobu Ohya, Ben Chiaro, Anthony Megrant +18
We present a systematic study of the properties of TiN films by varying the deposition conditions in an ultra-high-vacuum reactive magnetron sputtering chamber. By increasing the d…
Visualizing Dynamics of Charges and Strings in (2+1)D Lattice Gauge Theories
Tyler A. Cochran, Bernhard Jobst, Eliott Rosenberg +189
Lattice gauge theories (LGTs) can be employed to understand a wide range of phenomena, from elementary particle scattering in high-energy physics to effective descriptions of many-…
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…
Precision quantum simulation of magnon spectra and interactions
Trond I. Andersen, Nikita Astrakhantsev, Jeronimo Martinez +329
Quantum simulation promises to advance materials discovery by accurately simulating complex states of matter, their microscopic excitations, and macroscopic response functions. The…
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…
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…
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…
Exponential suppression of bit or phase flip errors with repetitive error correction
Zijun Chen, Kevin J. Satzinger, Juan Atalaya +88
Realizing the potential of quantum computing will require achieving sufficiently low logical error rates. Many applications call for error rates in the regime, but state…
Electric field spectroscopy of material defects in transmon qubits
Jürgen Lisenfeld, Alexander Bilmes, Anthony Megrant +6
Superconducting integrated circuits have demonstrated a tremendous potential to realize integrated quantum computing processors. However, the downside of the solid-state approach i…
Quantum-Classical Separation in Bounded-Resource Tasks Arising from Measurement Contextuality
Shashwat Kumar, Eliott Rosenberg, Alejandro Grajales Dau +280
The prevailing view is that quantum phenomena can be harnessed to tackle certain problems beyond the reach of classical approaches. Quantifying this capability as a quantum-classic…
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…
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…
Observation of Time-Crystalline Eigenstate Order on a Quantum Processor
Xiao Mi, Matteo Ippoliti, Chris Quintana +102
Quantum many-body systems display rich phase structure in their low-temperature equilibrium states. However, much of nature is not in thermal equilibrium. Remarkably, it was recent…
A 28nm Bulk-CMOS 4-to-8GHz <2mW Cryogenic Pulse Modulator for Scalable Quantum Computing
Joseph C Bardin, Evan Jeffrey, Erik Lucero +28
Future quantum computing systems will require cryogenic integrated circuits to control and measure millions of qubits. In this paper, we report the design and characterization of a…
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…
Hilbert space signatures of non-ergodic glassy dynamics
Aleksey Lunkin, Nicole S. Ticea, Shashwat Kumar +292
Disorder in quantum many-body systems can drive transitions between ergodic and non-ergodic phases, yet the nature--and even the existence--of these transitions remains intensely d…
Hartree-Fock on a superconducting qubit quantum computer
Frank Arute, Kunal Arya, Ryan Babbush +79
As the search continues for useful applications of noisy intermediate scale quantum devices, variational simulations of fermionic systems remain one of the most promising direction…
Observation of disorder-induced superfluidity
Nicole Ticea, Elias Portoles, Eliott Rosenberg +298
The emergence of states with long-range correlations in a disordered landscape is rare, as disorder typically suppresses the particle mobility required for long-range coherence. Bu…
Resisting high-energy impact events through gap engineering in superconducting qubit arrays
Matt McEwen, Kevin C. Miao, Juan Atalaya +24
Quantum error correction (QEC) provides a practical path to fault-tolerant quantum computing through scaling to large qubit numbers, assuming that physical errors are sufficiently…
Observation of separated dynamics of charge and spin in the Fermi-Hubbard model
Frank Arute, Kunal Arya, Ryan Babbush +96
Strongly correlated quantum systems give rise to many exotic physical phenomena, including high-temperature superconductivity. Simulating these systems on quantum computers may avo…
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…
Resolving the positions of defects in superconducting quantum bits
Alexander Bilmes, Anthony Megrant, Paul Klimov +4
Solid-state quantum coherent devices are quickly progressing. Superconducting circuits, for instance, have already been used to demonstrate prototype quantum processors comprising…
Fabrication and Characterization of Aluminum Airbridges for Superconducting Microwave Circuits
Zijun Chen, Anthony Megrant, Julian Kelly +16
Superconducting microwave circuits based on coplanar waveguides (CPW) are susceptible to parasitic slotline modes which can lead to loss and decoherence. We motivate the use of sup…