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Publications (14)

quant-ph2016

Suppressing relaxation in superconducting qubits by quasiparticle pumping

Simon Gustavsson, Fei Yan, Gianluigi Catelani +15

Dynamical error suppression techniques are commonly used to improve coherence in quantum systems. They reduce dephasing errors by applying control pulses designed to reverse errone…

quant-ph2025

Hardware-efficient quantum error correction via concatenated bosonic qubits

Harald Putterman, Kyungjoo Noh, Connor T. Hann +118

In order to solve problems of practical importance, quantum computers will likely need to incorporate quantum error correction, where a logical qubit is redundantly encoded in many…

quant-ph2018

Distinguishing coherent and thermal photon noise in a circuit QED system

Fei Yan, Dan Campbell, Philip Krantz +9

In the cavity-QED architecture, photon number fluctuations from residual cavity photons cause qubit dephasing due to the AC Stark effect. These unwanted photons originate from a va…

astro-ph.IM2019

High-resolution Infrared Spectrograph for Exoplanet Characterization with the Keck and Thirty Meter Telescopes

Dimitri Mawet, Michael Fitzgerald, Quinn Konopacky +46

HISPEC (High-resolution Infrared Spectrograph for Exoplanet Characterization) is a proposed diffraction-limited spectrograph for the W.M. Keck Observatory, and a pathfinder for the…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016

Improved superconducting qubit coherence with high-temperature substrate annealing

Archana Kamal, Jonilyn L. Yoder, Fei Yan +7

We assess independently the impact of high-temperature substrate annealing and metal deposition conditions on the coherence of transmon qubits in the standard 2D circuit-QED archit…

quant-ph2026

Readout-induced degradation of transmon lifetimes: interplay of TLSs and qubit spectral reshaping

Ziwen Huang, Jimmy Shih-Chun Hung, Mouktik Raha +9

Measurement backaction degrades dispersive readout of superconducting qubits even at modest drive strengths, often via the reduction of qubit lifetimes during readout. In this work…

quant-ph2026

Fast, High-Fidelity Erasure Detection of Dual-Rail Qubits with Symmetrically Coupled Readout

Jimmy Shih-Chun Hung, Arbel Haim, Mouktik Raha +14

Erasure qubits are a promising platform for implementing hardware-efficient quantum error correction. Realizing the error-correction advantages of this encoding requires frequent m…

quant-ph2024

Demonstrating a long-coherence dual-rail erasure qubit using tunable transmons

Harry Levine, Arbel Haim, Jimmy S. C. Hung +110

Quantum error correction with erasure qubits promises significant advantages over standard error correction due to favorable thresholds for erasure errors. To realize this advantag…

astro-ph.IM2019

Enabling the next generation of scientific discoveries by embracing photonic technologies

Nemanja Jovanovic, Charles Beichman, Cullen Blake +46

The fields of Astronomy and Astrophysics are technology limited, where the advent and application of new technologies to astronomy usher in a flood of discoveries altering our unde…

astro-ph.IM2019

The Zwicky Transient Facility: System Overview, Performance, and First Results

Eric C. Bellm, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Matthew J. Graham +112

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is a new optical time-domain survey that uses the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt telescope. A custom-built wide-field camera provides a 47 deg fiel…

astro-ph.IM2019

The Zwicky Transient Facility: Science Objectives

Matthew J. Graham, S. R. Kulkarni, Eric C. Bellm +114

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a public-private enterprise, is a new time domain survey employing a dedicated camera on the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt telescope with a 47 deg$^2…

quant-ph2017

Analysis and mitigation of interface losses in trenched superconducting coplanar waveguide resonators

Greg Calusine, Alexander Melville, Wayne Woods +12

Improving the performance of superconducting qubits and resonators generally results from a combination of materials and fabrication process improvements and design modifications t…

quant-ph2017

Coherent coupled qubits for quantum annealing

Steven J. Weber, Gabriel O. Samach, David Hover +9

Quantum annealing is an optimization technique which potentially leverages quantum tunneling to enhance computational performance. Existing quantum annealers use superconducting fl…

astro-ph.IM2020

The Zwicky Transient Facility: Observing System

Richard Dekany, Roger M. Smith, Reed Riddle +23

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) Observing System (OS) is the data collector for the ZTF project to study astrophysical phenomena in the time domain. ZTF OS is based upon the 48…